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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1760-1763
Volume 543, Page 184   View pdf image
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     November Court                        1762           184
     To the Worshipful the Justices of somerset county in court now Judicially sitting
Philip Covington    The humble petition of Philip Covington sheweth That your petitioner is possessed of
Petition    a Tract of Land called sowerewood the bounders of which are become uncertain & disputable
and the persons capable of proving the same aged and infirm your petitioner therefore humbly prays
that a commission may be granted him and commissioners appointed in order to prove the said Bounders or
the Bounders of any other tract or tracts of Land on which the same may depend and your petitioner as in du
-ty Bound shall every pray &c.                                                                   Philip Covington
Whereupon came here into court the afd. petitioner in his proper person and thereupon the petition afd. being
read & heard & fully understood it is considered by the court here that a commission issue to the afd. Philip
Covington as by the petition afd. is praid and that Levin Gale Levin Dashiell John Leatherbury & George Ir-
ving of somerset county gent be commissioners and Execute the same commission according to act of assem
-bly in such case provided &c.

David Mathews    To the Worshipfull the Justices of somerset County the Petition of David Mathews humbly sheweth
   Petition    That the road that leads from Rehoboth to the mouth of Merumsco creek that some part of
that road hath been changed and turned on your petitioners Land without any order of court which is
much to the prejudice of your petitioner and as he apprehends that it will be very little further to carry
the said Road on the line of the Land your petitioner between him & John Riggen & he will pray
                                                                                                               David Mathews
Whereupon came here into court the afd. petitioner in his proper person and thereupon the petition afd. being
read and heard & fully understood it is considered by the court here that Samuel Addams & Teague Riggan lay
of the new road & Make Report to the court & that the new road be made as good & passable as the old road
and that the old road lay open untill the new road be compleat

Joshua Whittington    To the Worshipfull Justices of somerset county the petition of Joshua Whittington humbly
      petition    to your worships that your petitioner is seized in in fee of a Tract of Land called King
-ston the Bounds of the same being much decayed and the Witness to prove the same antient and unfirm
your petitioner therefore prays that your worships will grant a commission and appoint commissio
-ners to take dipositions in order to prepetuate the same and your petitioner will pray    Joshua Whittington
Whereupon came here into court the afd. petitioner in his proper person and thereupon the petition afd.
being read & heard & fully understood it is considered by the court here that a commission issue to the said
Joshua Whittington as by the petition afd. is praid and that John Piper William Turpon Mitchel Da
-shiell & John Kellum be commissioners & Execute the same commission according to act of assembly
in such case provided &c

Prse    Aaron Sterling    1762 July 14th    Daniel Clark Dr

@    To 2500 feet of pine plank sold and delivered @ ?7..1..4      pr Aaron Sterling

   Daniel Clark
Augt ye 19th 1762 Then came before me the subscriber Aarn Sterling and made Oath on the holy Evangels
of almighty God that the above account as it stands stated is just and true and that he hath not directly
or Indirectly received any part or parcell thereof security or satisfaction for the same more than credit given to
his knowledged                                                                             Before       J Dennis
August 19th 1762 Whereas it is made appear to my satisfaction by the Oath of Aaron Sterling that Daniel
Clark stands Justly indebted unto him in the sum of seven pounds one shilling and four pence Current
Money & that he hath absconded himself from justice and hath or is about to remove his Effects in order
to defraud his credittors These are therefore in his Lordships Name to command you to issue an attachment
against the goods Chattles Rights and Creditts of the said Daniel Clark to satisfie the said Aaron his debt afd.
together with the contingent costs that shall accrue by means of Issuing the Attachment afd. agreeable to the act of assembly
in such case made and provided & for so doing this shall be your Warrant Given under my hand & seal this day & Year afd.
To Mr Thos. Hayward Jur Clk                                                                                  J Dennis


 

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