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June Court 1763 256 called Hartford & did there take the two depositions hereto annex'd after haveing giving pub-
Almighty God, deposeth, that about twenty five years ago, or more he was down at the river side where we now are, the Land Justices being then at the place, in order to prove the first bounder of Hertford, and that Captain John Macclester came down to this place & said that he then stood in the Line from the bounder, but that he did not know but the bounder had stood 30 or forty yards in the River, and this deponant saith that about seven or eight years ago he was down here when other commissioners were on the sd. Land & down likewise at this dame place and this deponant heard Captain Neil Macclester say that he the said Macclester saw Benjamin Laurence put his hand upon the sd first bounder, a red oak, before it was washed away and say that the sd. Tree was the first bounder of Hert- -ford and this deponant further saith that the sd. Neil Macclester came to this same place where the said John Macclester had stood and said that he stood near in the line, but that the bounder was in the River and further this deponan saith not Stephen Hopkins John Walter about 62 years of age being sworn on the holy Evangelists of Almighty God deposeth that he was present both times when the Land Justices & commissioners were on deposition the Land called Hertford as mentioned in Stephen Hopkins's ^ and that he heard Captain John and Neil Macclester say the same words and at the same place that are mentioned
John and Neil Macclester had stood as mentioned in the above Depositions and it stands Just below highwater mark about 175 yards below the midde of a high bank called the Red Bank
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 Mathias Costen of Somerset County in Relation to the bounds of two tracts of Land one called Good luch the other second choice or the bounds of any other Land 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 shall seem convenient you meet on the afsd: Land called Good Luck and second choice or any other Land on which the bounds of the afsd: Land may depend you first having Taken your oaths on the holy Evangelist 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 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 Evangels of Almighty God in the presence of the complain- -ant or Deft. if any touching the truth or Remembrance of their knowledge or any thing that may relate to the cause afsd. & 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 Sampson Wheatley Esqr. one of our Justices of our said court the 17th day of August in the 12th year of our dominion &c Anno Dom. 1762 And |
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1760-1763
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