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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1733-1735
Volume 846, Page 214b   View pdf image
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November Court  1734                                     214

Complainent or Defd.t if any Touching the truth or remembrance of their knowledge or any thing
that may relate to the Cause af.d and that Reduceing the Severall depositions into writing you send
the same together with this Comission under your or any three or two of your hands and Seals to
us to our County Court of Somerset with all Convenient Speed Wittness Robert King Gent Chief
Justice of our said Court the twenty third day of august in the Twentieth year of our dominion &.a
Ann Dom One thousand Seven hundred and thirty four

On the back side of the foregoing Comission it was Endorsed as Followeth Vizt

Be it remembered that this day to wit the 17 day of October 1734 Came Peter Shirman and John
Disharoon before me the Subscriber and was duely quallified to Execute the within Commission
according to act of assembly Sworn before me                                          Tho: Gilliss

Likewise to the same Commission were annexed the Following depositions Viz.t

The Deposition of John Christopher aged Sixty four years or there about being sworn sayeth
that about forty years by past he was going a long the road by a plantation where Jarvis
Ginkins now a little to the north ward of the said Ginkinses orchard on the north side of a small
drean where now stands a marked pine notcht with Six notches on two sides and two notches on the
other two sides he saw some Endians falling of a pine tree which was a bounder of a tract of Land
belonging to Nicholas Toadvine and this deponant went to them and told them that it was a bounder
of Nicholas Toadvines and that they should not have cutt it but it was too for gone so they fell
the tree and further sayeth not Sworn before us                                       Peter Shirman   (seal)
                                                                                                             John Disheroon   (seal)
The deposition of Jarvis Ginkins aged forty years or there about being
sworn sayeth that about Twenty Six years by past Nicholas Toadvine Sen.r told him that there
was a bounder of his a little to the northward of this deponants orchard but that it was down
and this deponant went that way and found a pine Lying down with notches to be seen ^in^ it tho' the
tree was Rotten a little to the northward of a Small drean where now stands a marked pine notcht
with Six Notches on two sides and two notches on the other two sides this deponant further sayeth that
Nicholas Toadvine Jun told him that it was his fathers bounder and this deponant saw Nicholas
Toadvine set up a White Oak stake in the hole where the tree grew and further sayeth not
Sworn before us                                                                                 Peter Shirman   (seal)
                                                                                                          John Disheroon   (seal)


The reverend James Robertson
             petn
     To the worshipfull Justices of Somerset County the petition of
James Robertson of the same County Clerk
                                                                 Humbly Sheweth
                                        That your petitioner is possessed of part of a tract of Land in the
County af.d Called More and Case it the Boundarys whereof are much decayed and
the Wittnesses to prove them antient & Inform Your petitioner therefore Humbly prays
that your Worships will please to Issue Comition to Examine wittnesses to perpetuate ye
                                                                                                          (Boundarys


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