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June Court 1763 255 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 County Court of Somerset with all convenient Speed Witness Isaac Handy Esqr one of our Justices of our said Court the 18th. Day of March In the 6th year of our dominion &c. Anno Dom. 1757 And now to wit at a court of his Lordship held at princess Ann Town the third tuesday of June being the Twenty first day of the same Month Anno Dom. one thousand seven hundred and sixty three before the Justices thereof Came Ephraim Wilson and Whittey Turpin two of the Gentlemen Nominated in the within commission and returned the same Endorsed in manner following with the severall depositions thereto annexed Somerset to wit this day came the within mentioned Ephraim Wilson & Whittey Turpin before me the subscriber one of his Lordship Justices of the peace in & for the County afsd: and was duly quallified to Execute the within commission agreable to the Power & Authority therein given given them Sworn before me this 23d day of May 1758 Samll. Addams Somerset fst The Execution of this comission appears by the depositions hereunto annex[-]
being Sworn on the Holy Evangels of Almighty God deposeth & saith that when this deponent was a girl she heard (and to the best of this deponants Memory from James Furnace Grand father to the present William Furnace that the begining of Furnaces Land was at the Landing and as this Deponent understood the Landing where she now stands now known by the Name of Sharps Landing but the name of the Land this Deponent knew not, nor ever heard, and further saith not
being sworn on the holy Evangels of Almighty God, deposeth & saith that when she this deponant was a girl, she heard her mother say that she this deponents Mother had heard that the bounds of William Furnaces Land (that is William Furnace great grandfather of the present William Furnace Stood at the Landing but what land- -ing this deponent is not sure, but understood that it was the Landing where she now stands, being the Landing discribed in the deposition of the above named Cathe- -rine Ford known by the name of Sharps Landing, and further saith not
being Sworn on the holy Evangels of Almighty God deposeth & saith that he this depo- Cedar -nent has been told that a ^ Tree that stood (where now appears the Roots of a cedar stump) at a place known by the name of Sharpes Landing, on an oyster shell bank twenty yards distant from the water Edge was a bounder of William Furnaces Land (that is great grandfather of the present William Furnace) but what bounder of the Land this deponent never heard, and that the Tree was down before he knew or heard any thing about, and this deponant says that his wife being the within named Mary Sharp him was the person that Informed ^ this deponent of the tree, and this deponent declares that he |
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1760-1763
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