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And the Evidences to prove the same old and Infirm, Your Petitioner therefore prays that your Worships would appoint Commissioners to Examine the same, and to take Depositions of the Same or of any Lands Whereon the same may Depend agreeable to Act of Assembly in Such Case made and Provided and your Petitioner as in Duty bound will pray John Tillman Whereupon Came here into Court the aforesaid Petitioner in his proper person and Thereupon the Petition afd. being read and heard and fully understood it is Considered by the Court here that a Commission Issue to the afd. John Tillman as by the Petition afd. is praid and that Levin Wilson Edward Waters Ephraim Wilson & William Fleming of Somerset County Gentlemen be Commissioners and Execute &c. same Commission according to Act of Assembly in Such Case made & provided &c.
Bear Point Containing five hundred acres of which your Petitioners Sold three hundred the Bounders whereof (which has heretofore been proveed & return thereof made to this Court) is Since that been destroyed or is so far Decay'd that they are not Certain but as your Petitioners is apprenhensive that they now Can prove the very place near where they stood Humbly Prays that Commissioners may be appointed in order to Examine Witness's to prove and Perpetuate the Bounds thereof or any other Land on which the same may Depend & Your Petitioner as in duty Bound shall Ever pray Whereupon Came here into Court the Aforesaid Petitioners in their Proper persons & thereupon the Petition afd. being Read and heard and fully understood it is Considered by the Court here that a Commission Issue to ye. afd. Esther Tull and Benton Harris as by the Petition afd. is Praid and that Thomas Jones, Edward Waters, Jno. Pollet & Littleton Dennis of Somerset County gentlemen be Commissions and Execute the same Commission According to Act of Assembly in such Case made & Provided & so forth
Should arrive at ye Age of Sixteen Years the said Sarah Cullin Chane to Serve her said Master the full term afd. during which term the said apprentice her said Master well and faithfully she shall serve his secrets keep his Commandments Lawfully and honestly every where willingly she shall doe & in all things as a good |
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