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June Court 1762 147
Supply Diers Lott, Blackwater and What you please or the Bounds of Any other Land on which the Same may depend we therefore Require you or Any three or two 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 Supply, Diers Lott, Black Water, and What you please or Any other Land on which the Same may depend You first having 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 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 Several Depositions into Writing you Send the Same with this our Commission under Your or Any three or two of Your hands & Seals to us to our County Court of Somerset with all Convenient Speed Witness Thomas Hayward Esqr Chief Justice of our Said Court the 21st day of November Anno Dom. 1755 And now to witt at a Court of his Lordship held at Princes Ann Town the third Tuesday of June being the fifteenth day of the Same Month Anno Dom. 1762 before the Justices thereof Came George Gale and Elgat Hitch two of the Gentlemen Nominated in the within Commission and Returned the Same Endorsed in Manner following with the Severall Depositions thereto Annexed Somerset County Aprill the 24th day 1756 Was George Gale Jur and Elgat Hitch Sworn on the holy Evangs. of Allmighty God to Execute the above Commissn. Agreeable to the directions of an Act of Assembly of this Province before Isaac Handy Somert. fst We the Subscribers two of the persons Appointed in the within Commission to Examine Evidences in Relation to the bounds of the Lands therein mentioned do hereby Certify that being thereto Qualified and having Given the Proper Notice According to Law we met on the said Lands on the 30th day of April 1756 and Likewise on the 6th day of May 1758 and took the depositions hereto Annexed Witness our hands and Seals Geo: Gale Elgat Hitch Benjamin Venables Aged 49 Years being Sworn on the holy Evangelist of Almighty God this 30th day of Aprill Anno Dom. 1756 deposeth and Saith that he has Sundry times heard his father Joseph Venables Say that the White Oak tree the Stump of which he now Sheweth us was the first bounder of a tract of Land Called What you please and this Deponant further Saith that he has Likewise heard William Keens Say that the Said Oak was the first bounder of the Said Land and further Saith not Benjn Venables Sworn before Geo: Gale Elgat Hitch } The above mentioned Stump Stands on a point of Land About 50 Yards from the Lower End thereof on the Eastermost Side of the Creek next Above Jonathan Stotts House Benjamin Venables Aged 51 Years being Sworn on the holy Evangelists of Almighty God this 6th of May Anno Dom. 1758 deposeth and Saith that About 40 years Ago he was present when the Land Justices were upon this Land Called What you please and that William Keens then Acknowledged that the Second Bounder of the Said Land Called What you please had Stood near where he then was at which place this Deponant Saith the Land Justices afd. Marked a Black Oak which formerly Stood where we now are and further this Deponant Saith not Benjn Venables Pasque Bartlet Aged 44 years being Sworn on the holy Evangelists of Almighty God this 30th day of Aprill 1756 deposeth and Saith that about Seventeen Years Ago he was at Work with Robert Givans Getting of pieces for the old Meeting house and that Capn. John Handy decd. Came and forewarned them from Getting Any More pieces there it being his Land and Shewed him a tree which formerly Stood where we now are) and that the Said Handy told him that the Said tree was a bounder of a tract of Land belonging to Capn. Joseph Venables and further that the Said Handy told them that his Line Struck the old Meeting house and further this deponant Saith not
1758 deposeth and Saith that About 40 Years Ago he was present when the Land Justices Caused an Oak tree to be marked for a Bounder of a tract of Land then belonging to Capn. Joseph Venables which Said tree this Deponant Saith formerly Stood near where we now Are And further Saith not
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1760-1763
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