John Bartlet	Somerset fst Frederick absolute Lord and Propry of ye. Provinces
commission & affidavits	of Maryland & Avalon Lord Baron of Baltimore &c to George

Gale, Isaac Handy, Joseph Dasheill, and Jesse Dasheill of Somerset County
Gentlemen greeting know ye that we have appointed you or any three or two
of you to be our commissioners to Examine Evidences on behalf of a certain John
Bartlet of Somerset County in relation to the bounds of a Tract of Land
called Hartford or the bounds of any other Land on which the bounds of the afs^d
Land may depend we therefore require you or any three or two of you at some
time & place as to you or any three or two of you shall seem convenient you
meet on the afs^d: Land called Hartford or any other Land on which the boun[-]
[ds] of the afs^d. Land may depend you first having taken your oaths on the
holy Evangelist of Almighty God & 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 Defendant & 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 defendant if any Touching the truth or
Remembrance of their knowledge or any thing that may relate to the cause
afs^d. & 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 & seals to
us to our county court of Somerset with all convenient Speed Witness Isaac
Handy Esq^r Cheif Justice of our said court y^e. 18^th day of June in the 12^th year of
our dominion &^c Anno Dom. 1762
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 George
Gale Jun^r and Jesse Dashiell two of the Gentlemen nominated in the within com
-mission and returned the same Endorsed in manner following with the several
depositions thereto annexed
Somerset County Novemb^r 22^d 1762 Then Came the within named Geo: Gale and was
qualify'd to Execute the within commission agreeable to an act of assembly
in such case made and provided              Before    Eph^m. King
Novemb^r 22^d 1762 Then came the within named Jesse Dasheil and was qualify'd to
Execute the within Comⁿ. agreeable to an act of assembly in such case made
provided                                          Before Eph^m King
March 15^th. 1763 We the subscribers do hereby certify that being Qualify'd to exe
-cute the within commission we did on the 25^th of November 1762 meet on the Land

called