1764 AFFADAVIT OF SURVEY AND BOUNDARY LINES ON "RUMSOM NECK" , New Jersey

I found this framed and hanging on the wall at the Monmouth County Arcive in Manalapan on a recent visit, and the archivist, Mary Ann Kiernan, was gracious enough to take the framed print down from the wall and make a photocopy for me. I thiught it might be helpful to others in figuring out where their ancestors lived. This is in the Little Silver area, I think. The highway mentioned is probably Rumson Road, and I think the "North River" is the Navesink. Corrections appreciated.

Doesnt say it here, but Restore Lippincott was Jacob Dennis's uncle, and Justice Josiah Holmes was Jacobs son in law.

NEW JERSEY MONMOUTH Jacob Dennis in the Said County yeoman, aged upwards of seventy years being solemnly sworn upon the Holy Evangalist of Almighty God Deposeth and Saith , That his father Samuel Dennis late of said Shrewsbury deceased, from Great Brittain, who came to live in the said town in the year 1675 Boarded with one Restore Lippincott on Rumsom Neck in said town, and while he lived with him, the Surveyor laid out the said Lippincotts tract, and the tract next below or Eastward of it, now in the posession of Thomas Borden Jun.. And that the said Surveyor set his Compass at a Chestnut Tree about two rod below or South Eastward of the Highway that goes down Said Rumsom, on the Westerly bank of a small brook runing just under the root of the Said tree. To run the course between the said tracts to the North River which course this deponant thinks is Northwest and by North.
And that the Said little brook from the Said tree, and a small creek, that it runs into, was the bounds between the said tracts to the South Eastward. Which said Chestnut Tree this deponent saith his Said Father showed to him , and told him divers times to remember it, and that he was present at the laying out of the Said tracts as above and that the Said Brook & Creek were the bounds between said tracts below it. And that this deponents neighbour, Peter White deceased hath often told this deponent that the Said Samuel Dennis showed him the Chestnut Tree, and told Said White to remember it, And that he was present at the laying out Sd tracts as above. And the Deponent further saith that he as a Surveyor hath several times been employed by the owners of the tracts to run the division line ( or part of it ) of the Said tracts, and they began at the Said tree to run the Sd Division line , and that this brook and creek
**illegible line ***
till very lately. And that he believes it is upwards of fifty years ago that his said father showed him the said tree. And that the Said Chestnut tree hath been blown down many years, but young ones are grown up from the root thereof, And that part of this Said tree is still remaining. And further this Deponent saith not.
Jacob Dennis

Sworn this eighth day of July
1764 Before Me
Josiah Holmes, Justice

Present when the above affidavit was taken
the folling (???) vis.

John Chadwick
Elihu WIlliams
Peter Chadwick
David Allen
Thomas White sone of Levi White
Michael Hulit ( his x mark)
Thomas Hulit ( his x mark)
Joseph White
Benjamin White
Francis Chadwick
the mark of John Finemore (Tinemore ? ) X
illegible signature may be John Paterson? Capt. (?) or similar