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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1740-1742
Volume 861, Page 282b   View pdf image
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       June Court                       1742                                   282

removed and this deponant Camest Remember Exactly the place where the said post stood but that it was somewhere
about the place where there now Stands a white Oak Stake and further this deponant Saith not      James Traine

                      John Evans aged Sixty Years or thereabouts being Sworn saith that about Thirty Years agoe as he
Came from M.r Traines with some Smiths work he Overtook M.r Hamblin and after some discourse he askt Mr Hamblin
where he was going and he said to Look after his Cattle and Sould this deponant that he had given his Land
to his Son and that he thought he had given him a good Gift for M.r Nutter had offered him Three score pounds for it
and they being in the Road the aforesaid Hamblin pointed to the bounder and tould this deponant that there was the
uppermost bounder of the Land that he bought of this deponants father and he thinks the quantity was Three hundred acres
but he Cannot be Certain This deponant further Saith that he was Carried by the Corroner on the aforesaid Land
and William Curry Shew'd him the same Bounder and tould him that it was the Upper bounder of Hamblins
Land which place he thinks to be about Two pole to the Southward of the Stake mentioned in Mr Trains deposition
to the best of his remembrance and further saith not                                                John Evans Junr


    William Bodley aged fifty one years being Sworn on the holy Evangalist of Allmighty God saith that about
sixteen years agoe he did se a post standing about one pole to the westward of the stake mentioned in M.r Trains
Deposition and that some time afterwards he saw it Lying on the ground about Sixty yards to the westward
of the af.d place and that he had heard Old M.r Nutter say that he had only put down that post as a blind untill he had
Secured some Land and further this Deponant saith not                                                                              his
                                                                                                                                                       Will.m B Bodley
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David Richardson
         pet.n against
Thomas Wise
 Sommerset ss
                                To the worshipfull the Justices of the aforesaid  The petition of
David Richardson Sheweth that your petitioner hath in his Infancy been under the Guardianship
of a Certain Thomas Wise of this County and now Your petitioner is Arrived to the age of Twenty One Years and
notwithstanding which the said Thomas Wise still Obstinately and against the Law of the Land detains your
petitioner and Estate to your petitioners great hurt and determent Your petitioner therefore prays Reliefe in
the premisses and your petitioner shall pray &c                                       David Richardson

             Thereupon Command is given to the Sheriffe of Sommerset County that he ^should^ Sommons the aforesaid Thomas Wise
if he Should be found in his bailywick that all excuses set apart he be and appear here in his Lordships County Court
of Sommerset now here held at dividing Creek before the Justices thereof this Instant third Tuesday of March One
Thousand Seven hundred and forty One to answer unto the petition aforesaid &.a   And afterwards to witt the Same day
and Year abovesaid Came here into Court as well the aforesaid David Richardson by W.m Arbuckle his attorney as the afd
Thomas Wise by George Douglas his attorney and hereupon at the Request of the parties afd day is by the Court here unto
                                                                                                                                                                               them


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