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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1760-1763
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          March Court              1762              131
them upon their Corporall Oaths to be by you or Any three of 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 Wittness Thomas Hayward Esqr Chief
Justice of our Said Court the 23d day of March Anno Dom. 1756
           And now to witt at a Court of his Lordship held at Princes Ann Town the Sixteenth day of March
Anno Dom. One thousand Seven hundred and Sixty Two before the Justices thereof Came Jonathan Sott &
Christopher Piper Two of the Gentlemen Nominated in the within Commission and Returned the Same
Endorsed in Manner following With the Severall Depositions there to Annexed
   Febry 21st: 1761 Was Jonathan Stott and Christopher Piper Sworn to Execute the within Commission According
to Law                                                                                  before    Isaac Handy
   By Virtue of the within Commission to us directed we Accordingly Qualified to Execute the Same and
In pursuance thereof Gave Publick notice According to Law and took the following depositions on the Said
Lands after the Notice afd. Given    Wittness our hands and Seals this 3d day of Aprill Anno Dom. 1761
                                                                                                                    Jonathan Stott
                                                                                                                    Chris: Piper
Deposition of Alexander Adams Aged About Eighty One Years the Twenty
Seventh of Last March being Sworn on the holy Evangels of Almighty God on the 3d day of Aprill 1761 Vizt
About fifty Years agoe Thomas Cox Came near the Spott where we are and Shewed me a Marked Oak and Sayed
that this was the first bounder of a tract of Land Called Eversham taken up by Thomas Holbrook Senr. and John
Holland and they then Neighbors William Elgate and Adam Hitch and Others knew and Allowed it to
be the bounder of the Said Land And the Said Thomas Cox Said that he was at the first Surveying of it and
Saw the tree marked which tree is not in being and we Commissioners do Mark a White Oak bark Read Oak
On the Spot where the Said Allexander Adams Said the bounder Stood which is the Spot we Commissioners
Are now at which is below a Landing Opposite to Capt. William Winders uper part of his Land And
the afd. Adams further Declares that he has Sene the afd. bounder of Eversham often times Twenty or thirty
times and oftener Seeing I Lived Some Years near it and William Whittington Jur when Surveyor took up Some
Vacant Land Adjacent to the Said Eversham and told the afd. Adams that he Came to the afd. bounder but not
within it this Deponant further Sayeth not         Given under my hand            Alexr. Adams
The Deposition of Purnell Johnson Aged about Sixty Years being Sworn on the holy Evangelist of Almighty
God this 3d day of Aprill 1761 Vizt    This Deponant Saith that about Twenty Seven or Eight Years Ago as near as he
Can Tell William Whittington and the afd. Purnall Johnson was walking about forty Yards Right up in the
Woods from where the Said Alexander Adams Declares the first bounder of a tract of Land Called Eversham was
And the afd. Whittington told the afd. Johnson that the Said bounder of the Said Adams Stood near about the Spot
where they was then were but the Said Johnson did not See the bounder at the Same time the Said Whittington
told him that the afd. Adams Land was So near his Land at the upper End of the Said Land that it was Very narrow
betwixt the two tracts so near that he Could Scarce get betwixt and further this Deponant Saith not
                                                                                                                              Purnall Johnson
Memorandum that there Stood a Marked White Oak Agreeable to the patent by a Small
                                                                                                                      Little
Branch Called in the patent Small Brooks and that the Said Commissioners Mark two ^ Dogwoods in the presents the Standers
by Given under our hands the year and Month afd.                                                              Jonathan Stott
                                                                                                                                     Chris: Piper

Wm. Roberts Commission    Somerset fst Frederick Absolute Lord and Propry of the Provinces of Maryland and Avalon Lord
and Affidavits    Baron of Baltemore &c. To Joseph Gilliss, George Irving Wm. McClemey & Whitey McClemey of
Somerset County Gent Greeting know ye that we have Appointed You or Any three or two of You to be our Commissioners to
Examine Evidences in behalf of a Certain William Roberts of Somerset County in Relation to the bounds of a tract of
Land Called Davids Destony or Any other Lands on which the Bounds of the afd. Land may depend we therefore Require
you or Any three or two of you at Some time and palce as to You or Any three or two of you Shall Seem Convenient you

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