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June Court
1737
67 thousand seven hundred and thirty seven came hereinto Court James Mackmorie and Mathias Dashiell two of the Gen.ts mentioned in the above Commission and made return thereof to the Court here Endorsed with the following depositions thereto annexed viz.t October ye 11.th ^1736^ then Came James Mackmorie and Mathias Dashiell and was qualified according as the Law in such Case made and provided before me Dashiell By virtue of the within Commission we the Subscribers two of the four persons hereby appointed to Execute the Same after giving due notice as the Law in such Cases requires we having taken the depositions viz.t of John Evans and of Daniel Cordery relating to the Land within Called Long Acre being hereunto annexed Wittness our hands this twenty fourth of 9.ber anno Dom 1736 By virtue of the above Commission annexed hereunto we the Subscribers two of the four persons thereby appointed to execute the powers therein Contained wherefore after giving due and advertisment according to law on the abovesaid Land Called Longacre in the presence of the Complainant or def.t appearing wee took the following depositions (Viz.t) of John Evans and Daniel Cordery on the fifth day of November Anno Dom seventeen hundred thirty six as wittness our hands and seals The deposition of John Evans aged fifty eight years or there abouts being sworn upon the holy evangelist saith that he was told by Coll Francis Jenckins that the first bounder of this Land called Long Acre was a pine and that afterward M.r Tho.s Walker shewed him this pine being then a standing marked tree (now decayed to small rotten Stump ) and told him the deponant that it was the bounder of this said Land Called Longacre and that Phillip Akine and M.r Edward Day told him the same Likwise further sayeth not The deposition of Daniel Cordery aged forty three years or thereabouts being sworn upon the holy evangelist saith that this stump only now remaining was about thirty year ago when he first knew it a standing dead tree and marked which might be plainly seen and that upon a Contraversey about Land between his father and ^M.r^ Benj.a Wailes Robert Givan run out this Land and begun at this tree or Stump as the first bounder of Longacre and that afterwards W.m Whittington surveyer ran the Land again and begun at this same stump likewise as the first bounder of Long Acre further sayeth not {Jams Mackmorie (+) {Mathias Dashiell (+)
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1737-1738
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