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three or Two of You to be our Commissioners To Examine Evidences on behalf of a certain Stephen Horsey Junr in Relation To the bounds of a Tract of Land called Cow Quarter or the bounds of any other Lands on which the bounds of the afsd Land 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 it shall Seem Convenient you meet on the afsd Land Called Cow Quarter or any other Lands on which the bounds of the afsd Land may depend You first haveing 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 Examine them upon their Corporal Oaths To be by you or any three or Two of you administred on the holy Evangels of Almighty God in the presence of the Complainant or deft if anny Touching the Truth or Remembrance of their Knowledge or any thing that may relate to the cause afsd and that Reducing 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 coun -ty Court of Somerset with all Convenient Speed Witness Isaac Handy Esqr. one of our Justices of our Said Court the 21st Day of March in the 10th Year of our Dominion &c Anno Dom. 1761 And Now to witt at a court of his Lordship held at princess Ann Town the third tuesday of March being the fifteenth day of the same Month Anno Dom. 1763 before the Justices there -of Came John Williams & James Gunby Two of the Gentlemen Nominated in the within Commission & Returned the same Endorsed in Manner following with the Several depositions thereto annexed March the 30th Day in the Year of our Lord one thousand Seven hundred and Sixty one was the within named James Gunby & John Williams sworn on the holy Evangelist of Almighty God well & Truly To Execute the within Commission as it is to them directed Before Me S Wheatley Somst: Coty. to wit The Deposition of Thomas Baly aged Eighty Two years or their abouts being Sworn on the holy Evangelist of Almighty God deposeth as follows that about thirty years ago down he this deponant was a clearing of Ground and cutting ^ of Trees on Stephen Horsey's Planten Hammock & he the afsd Horsey Said Thomas Com heare take Care of this Tree and do not cut it down for it is the first Bounder of Cow Quarter and this deponant further saith that that the afsd Tree was a Scruby white Oak marked with Twelve Notches and in a little Time afterwards he said it was marked with Sixteen Notches and further Saith not The bounder above Mentioned is not To be seen but within Four or Five Yards of wheare this Deponant Sayeth it Formerly Stood there is a small Scrubey white Oak Sliped as a Memorandum to find where the bounder Stood Mention'd in the above Deposition which ap -pears to be on the Nothermust part of the afsd Hamock Somst. Couty To wit The deposition of Captn Michael Holland aged Sixty Seven Years or their abouts being Sworn according To the above directions deposeth as follows that Captn Stephen Horsey which is now deceased Showed this deponant a marked White Oak and told him he did Marke it as a Memoriall of the first Bounder of a Tract of Land called Cow Quarter and that the first bounder Stood their or their abouts which said Oak is now Cut down that was marked as a memoriall and it Stood Southerly about fourteen Yeards from the place where Bayly described the first bounder to stand in his deposition and further Sayeth Not Somst |
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1760-1763
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