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August Court 1761 106 Somerset County fst The Deposition of Roza Evans Aged Sixty three Years or thereabouts being Sworn on the holy Evangelis of Almighty God deposeth as follows to witt that Some Years Past but how long this Deponant Can't Remember She this Deponant was Present when James Taylor About Eighty Years of Age was Sworn to what he knew in Relation to had the bounds of Jenckin Prices Land And the Said James Taylor declareth that there ^ Stood a bounder near to Where the Point of Marsh maketh from the high Ground by the Side of the River but was not Standing then when the Said James Taylor was Sworn but the Said James Taylor Imagined it was Washed up with the Current of the tide which to describe the Place we the Commissioners Cut Twelve Notches in the Nighest Possimon tree to the Place where the Said James Taylor declared a bounder stood which the Said Marked Possimon tree is about Twenty Perches distant or thereabouts & Easterly from where this Deponant Saith She has been informed by Ancient Livers that Jenckin Prices Dwelling hous Stood and this Deponant further Saith that as Long as She Can Remember the above mentioned Point was Called Spensciks Point and this Deponant Saith She Can Remember when there was About half an Acre of high Ground on the End of the afd. Point between the Lower Cluster of Pissimon trees and the End of the Point And further this Deponant Declareth that She hath Seen a tree Standing down the Sown or Bay Side from the End of Spensciks point Standing near the Mouth of a Small Drean and near to Where there is now a Slipe Pine which is a Small distance Easterly from Elias Whites fence which is Partly made with Whole Cuts of timber Commonly Called and known by the Name of the Water Work and this Deponant Siath She hath heard Say it was a bounder of the Point Land and further Saith her Brother John White never Claimed the Lower Down the Sown then the aforementioned tree and this Deponant further Saith not Roza Evans The above is a true Deposition taken by us the Subscribers for E: White Deft. Jno. Broughton Edwd. Waters Somerset County fst We the Subscribers being duly Quallified to Execute the above Commission we do hereby Certifie that the Several Depositions hereto Annexed were taken by us Agreeable to the Authority thereby to us Given Witness our hands and Seals the 31st: day of July 1761 J Broughton {Seal} Edwd. Waters {Seal}
you to be our Commissioners to Examine Evidences on behalf of a Certain Thomas Pollit of Somerset County in Relation to the Bounds of two tracts of Land one Called Trouble and the other Dantry or the bounds of Any other Land on which the time Same may depend We therefore Require you or Any three or two of You at Some ^ and place as to You or Any three or two of you it Shall Seem Convenient you meet on the afd. Land Called Trouble and Dantry or Any other Land on which the Bounds of the afd. Land may depend You first haveing taken Your Oaths on the holy Evangelist of Almighty God And there Cause to Come before you or Any three or two of you all Such Evidences as Shall be to You or Any three or two of you Nominated by the Said Complainant or Deft. and that you or Any three or two of You Examine them upon their Corporall Oaths to be by you or Any three or two of You Administred on the holy Evangels of Almighty God in the Presence of the Complainant or Deft. if Any touching the truth or Remembrance of their knowledge or Any thing that may Relate to the Cause afd. and that Reduceing the Severall Depositions into Writing you Send the Same with this our Commission under your or Any three or two of Your hands and Seals to us to our County Court of Somerset with all Convenient Speed Witness Isaac Handy Esqr one of our Justices of our Said Court the 22d day of Novr in the 10th Year of our Dominion &c. Anno Dom. 17610 And now to witt at a Court of his Lordship held at Princes Ann Town the third Tuesday of August Anno Dom. 1761 before the Justices thereof Came the Gent Nominated in the within Commission and Returned the Same Endorsed in Manner following with the Severall Depositions thereto Annexed 20th. Janry |
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1760-1763
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