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November Court 1761 117 of You at Some time and place as to You or Any three or two of You Shall Seem Convenient You meet on the afd. Land Called Gideons Luck or Any other Land on which the bounds of the afd. Land may depend You first having taken Your Oaths on the holy Evangels 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 by you or Any three or two of You Administred on the holy Evangelist 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 December Anno Dom. 1760 And now to witt at a Court of his Lordship held at Princes Ann Town the third Tuesday of November Anno Dom. one thousand Seven hundred and Sixty One before the Justices thereof Came Levin Wilson Edward Waters and Wm. Fleming three of the Gentlemen Nominated in the within Commission and Returned the Same Endorsed in Manner following with the Severall Depositions thereto Annexed May 1st: 1761 This day was Levin Wilson and Wm. Fleming duely Qualified to Execute the within Commission before me Ephm. Wilson May 1st: 1761 Then was Edward Waters Senr. also Qualified on the within Commission Before Thos. Jones The Deposition of William Tilman formerly of Somerset County Aged forty Six Years or thereabouts being Sworn on the holy Evangels of Almighty God) Deposeth and Saith that when this Deponant Lived with his uncle John Gibbons he went out with Catherine Gibbons the wife of the afd. John Gibbons) on Sunday morning into the Woods to feed Hoggs About Twenty Six Years past and as they Returned the afd. Catherine now wife of Aaron Tilghman Asked this Deponant if he know where his fathers Bounder Stood the Said Catherine told him that this Scrubbed White Oak marked with Sixteen Notches and Stooping to the Southward was the first bounder of his Fathers Land which Said White Oak formerly Stood in the Woods but now in an old field the Said Bounder Stands to the Eastward of Aaron Tilghmans Dwelling house from a Large Red Oak Standing on the North Side of the old field about thirteen Strides in the woods thence from the Said Red Oak about Seventy Six Strides South Westerly a Cross the old field bearing with a direct Line to Another Red Oak which Stands on the South Side of the afd. Old field About Twenty Strides from the fence Across the Main Road in to the Woods And About One hundred and Sixty Strides from the Last Mentioned Red Oak to the Red Oak first Mentioned the Difference between the afd. Strides Stood the first bounder of his Fathers Land Also this Deponant Saith that Elijah Tilghman Son of Aaron Tilghman brought this Deponant with Isaiah Tilghman and John Gibbons to a Stump which he Said the tree was blown down and that he Roled the body of the tree and burnt it which he Said was the first bounde rof this Deponants fathers Land Called Gideons Luck as he had been informed and that there was Notches on the afd. tree which Stood nigh the place above mentioned and further this Deponant Saith that John Gibbons decd. as this Deponant was passing by a bounded tree Asked him if he knew where his fathers Bounder Stood and the afd. John Gibbons told this Deponant that the afd. White Oak was the first bounder of his fahters Land as John Tilghman the Elder Informed the afd. John Gibbons (Decd.) that the bounder Stood as above discribed and further this Deponant Saith not Taken this Twenty fifth day of May Anno Dom. 1761 William Tilghman The Deposition of Aaron Tilghman Aged Sixty four Years or thereabouts being Sworn on the holy Evangels of Almighty God Deposeth and Saith that About Twenty five or Twenty Six Years Agoe where now Stands A marked Lightwood post marked with Sixteen Notches Standing to the Eastward of this Deponants Dwelling house in the old field Stood his Brother Solomon Tilghmans Bounder and this Deponant often Seed the Said Bounder before it was fallen down and often afterwards and When the Said boudner was down he this Deponant Seed the Notches often Afterwards in the afd. tree and this Deponant Ordered his people to Cut the afd. bounder and had the tree burnt And in the Stump of the afd. bounder he this Deponant drove a Lightwood knot into the Said Stump and further
Almighty God Deposeth and Saith that About Seven or Eight days past this Deponants father in Law Aaron Tilghman Went |
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1760-1763
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