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June Court 1763 257 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 Louther Dasheill and Benjamin Cottman two of the Gentlemen Nominated in the within commission and returned the same Endorsed in manner following with the severall depositions thereto annexed on the 24th. day of Augt. 1762 Louther Dasheill an Benj. Cottman Qualifyed on the within comission Before J Dennis Depositions of Witnesses Taken on the Land called Good Luck which we return at the request of Matthias Costin Taken the 2d. day of October 1762 The Deposition of Thomas Gilliss aged sixty six years or thereabouts being sworn on the holy Evangelists of Almighty God saith that between Twenty five and thirty years agoe Robert Harris shewed the sd. Gilliss a Red oak and told him that the said oak of Land was the first bounder of a Tract ^ called good Luck and that the said Tree was markt but does not remember whither it was regularly mark'd or not and some few years ld after at the request of said Harris Wm. Whittington went to the sd. oak and to^ the sd. Gilliss and sundry other people who was then present that the said oak was the first bounder of the Land called good Luck and that Whittington survey'd it as Gilliss apprehended and further saith not Thomas Gilliss the above mentioned oak as was shewed us by Thomas Gilliss is now a living Tree and Large and stands near the middle of a small corn field now in possession of sd. Gilliss and appears to have been Mark'd formerly as a bounder of Land The Deposition of James Polk aged sixty years or thereabouts being Sworn as aforesd. saith that Twenty years ago Last January he was at the oak mention'd in Thomas Gilliss Deposition and that Wm. Whittington was then present and told the people that was there that the said oak was the first bounder of a Tract of Land that he the sd. Whittington survey'd for Wm. Alexander and John Parsons and that a plain Path went near by the sd. Tree which the sd. Polk knew forty seven years agoe and further saith not James Polk The Deposition of David Polk aged fifty Seven years or thereabouts being Sworn as afforesd. saith that above twenty five years agoe the sd. Polk was at the Red oak mentioned in Thomas Gilliss Deposition With sundry people and that Wm Whittington being pre- -sent told the People that the sd Oak was the first bounder of a Tract of Land survey'd for Wm. Alexander or John Parsons by the said Whittington as Said Polk apprehended the sd. Land being then in the possession of Robt. Harris and that a path went near the said Tree that the sd Polk knew forty years ago and further saith not David Polk We doe hereby certify that after being qualified to Execute the within commission and affixing advertisements at the Parrish Church and most publick places of the coun- -ty wherein the said Land Lyeth agreeable to the act of assembly made in such case We met on the Land mentioned in the within commission agreable to Notice and then and there took the within depositions Witness our hands and seals this 2d
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1760-1763
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