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March Court 1763 217 Taken the day and Year aforesaid Nat Roach (For Mr Thomas Seon) The deposition of Solomon Tull aged Sixty one Years or there abouts being First Sworn on the Holy Evan -gels of Almighty God Deposeth and Saith that he was brought up and lived near the Head of Tulls Creek & saith that Capt William Waters had a Survey on his Lands and the said Waters sent for Mr Jeffery Long to come and shew him where the Bounder of his Land was called Waters's River and the said Jeffery Long Came and shewed the said William Waters where now Stands a Cedar post marked with Sixteen Notches Set up by John Waters Son of John and said Where the said post Stands the Tree Stood within twenty Feet Round where the post now Stands that was the Bounder of Waters's River which said post now stands on a ditch bank the division between Capt William Waters and Solomon Tull and this deponant further saith that the persons that held the Land called Waters's River allways held up to the aforesaid post and that the persons possessing the Tract of Land called Solsbury always held the Land on the other Side of the creek up to the afd post and this deponant further Saith that when Mr Thomas Seon purchased part of a Tract of Land called Salsbury of Nathaniel Roach at the head Capt William Waters came to the said Post and agreed that the Land should be Laid of from the said post To the Best of his knowledge and further this deponant Saith not Sworn To the day & Year aforesaid Solomon Tull The Deposition of Samuel Tull aged Fifty Seven Years or there abouts being First Sworn on the Holy Evangels of Almighty God Deposeth & Saith that when he was Young he severall Times Saw a red Oak or Water Oak as a bounder which stood within thirty steps of a place that is thirty two Steps about East from the said Bounder first mentioned in the deposition of Solomon Tull set up by John Waters Son of John and this deponant further Says that he always understood the Land his Father Lived on which was Waters River came to the said Tree but this deponant Says he does not Remember that he was Ever Told that it was a bounder of the same and further this deponant Saith not sworn To the day & year aforesaid two Samuel Tull The deposition of William Catlin aged Eighty Years and upwards being first Sworn on the holy Evan with -gels of Almighty God deposeth & Saith that he forty years agone or upwards was hunting ^ Jeffery Long father of Samuel Long ^ and the said Jeffery shew'd him a Tree on the East Side of the branch of Tull's Creek but does not know the place where it stood but it was up above the post set up by Capt William Waters and the said Jeffery Long told him that it was a bounder but of what Tract of Land this deponant does not Remember and further this deponant Saith not Sworn to the day & year afsd Wm Catlin The deposition of Capt William Turpin aged about Fifty Seven Years being First Sworn on the holy Evangels of Almighty God deposeth and saith that he was one appointed To Lay of a peice of Land for Thomas Seon being the head part of a Tract of Land that was Nathaniel Roache's and Severall People were with him & Capt William Waters one of them and also Solomon Tull & they came to a place about Twenty strides South East from the post Set up by John Waters Son of John & that Capt William Waters said that was the place that was said To be Majr Water's bounder & this deponant he the said further saith that ^ Capt William Waters Mr Thomas Seon & this deponant laid off the Land from the said place and further this deponant Saith not Sworn to the day & year afd William Turpin The deposition of William Long aged Twenty nine Years or thereabouts being First Sworn on the holy Evangels of Almighty God deposeth & saith that as he was going a fishing by the place where the now Stands a cedar post as mentioned in ^ Deposition of Solomon Tull & William Turpin he saw a Stake or a post Set up which stood within at farthest Forty Steps of where the post now stands and that when he went home he asked his father what it was and his Father Samuel Long Told this deponant that it was put up where his father Jeffery Long told him was a bounder but this deponant does not remember what bounder and further saith not Sworn To the day and year aforesaid Wm Long |
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1760-1763
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