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March Court 1761 65 Whereupon Came here into Court the afd. 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. James Ward as by the petition afd. is praid and that John Williams, James Gunby, William Miles, and Isaac Coulbourn of Somerset County Gent. be Commissioners and Execute the Same Commission According to Act of Assembly in Such Case provided &c.
to prove the Same Antient and Infirm your petitioner humbly prays your Worships would Grant me a Commission & Appoint Commissioners to Examine Evidences to perpetuate the bounds thereof or the bounds of Any other Lands on which the Same may depend Agreeable to an Act of Assembly in Such Case made and provided and Your petitioner as in duty Bound will forever pray &c. Whereupon Came here into Court the afd. 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. Cornelius Ward as by the petition afd. is praid and that Sampson Wheatly, James Gunby, William Miles and Isaac Coulbourn of Somerset County Gent. be Commissioners and Execute the Same Commission According to Act of Assembly in Such Case provided &c
Will a Negro Man of Nehemiah King of Somerset County being Antient and Infirm and not able to Labour is
petitioner your petitioner therefore most humbly prays your Worships would grant me Liberty to turn the Said Road on my own Land near upon the Line between me and Kirk Gunby and it will be full as near as the old Road now is and on higher and better Ground then the old Road now Stands on & Your petitioner as in duty bound will forever pray &c. Isaac Whittington Whereupon Came here into Court the afd. 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 Samuel Adams Planner Williams and Josephas Bell Lay out the new Road as by the Petition afd. is praid and that the old Road Lay open untill the new Road afd. to be Laid of by the afd. persons be Compleat and Received by them & that they make Report thereof to the Court &c.
Jonathan Nichols being Very Infirm and not Able to Labour is Set tax free untill it Shall please God to Restore him to
infirm your petitioner therefore most humbly prays your Worships would Grant me a Commission and Appoint Commissioners to Examine Evidences in Relation to the bounds of the afd. tract of Land or the bounds of Any other tract of Land on which the bounds of the afd. tract of Land depends Agreeable to an Act of Assembly in Such Case Lately made and provided and Your petitioner as in duty bound will for ever pray &c. Whereupon Came here into Court the afd. 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. George Dickerson as by the petition afd. is praid and that Sampson Wheatly, Edward Waters, John Broughton and Purnell Outen of Somerset County Gent. be Commissioners and Execute the Same Commission According to Act of Assembly in Such Case provided &c.
Robert Layfield being Antient and not Able to Labour is Set tax free by the Court for the future &c |
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