Elizabeth Hughes sworn says that her two little sons and the Boy John left her house a little before ten o.c. A.M. went to the Mill Pond about a quarter of a mile off half after eleven o.c. her two lttle sons came back to the house and told her that John was Drowned that he went in to the pond and got whare [sic] the water was over his head that he rose to the top three times and they saw no more of him further...