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March Court 1761 77 Chance or Any other Land on which the Bounds of the afd. Land may depend You first haveing taken your Oaths on the holy Evangels of Almighty God According to Act of Assembly in Such Case made and provided 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 Deft. And 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 presents of the Complainant or Deft. if Any touching the truth or Remembrance of their knowledge or Any thing that may Relate to the Cause afd. and that Reduceing the Severall Depositions into Writing you Send the Same with this our Commission under your or Any three or two of your hands and Seals to us to our County Court of Somerset with all Convenient Speed Wittness Isaac Handy Esqr. one of our Justices of our Said Court the 2oth day of June Anno Dom. 1760 And now to witt at a Court of his Lordship held at Princes Ann Town the third Tuesday of March Anno Dom. one thousand Seven hundred and Sixty One before the Justices thereof Came William Turpin and Josephas Bell Two of the Gentlemen Nominated in the within Commission and Returned the Same Endorsed in Manner following with the Severall Deposition thereto Annexed July ye 22d: day 1760 Then was Josephas Bell Qualified to Execute the within Commission Agreeable to an Act of Assembly on Maryland in Such Case made and provided Before me SWheatly Augt. 12th. 1760 Then was Capt. William Turpin duly Qualified to Execute the within Commission Agreeable to Law Before Ephm. Wilson Somerset County fst The Deposition of William Addams Aged forty three years or thereabout being Sworn on the holy Evangels of Almighty God Deposeth as follows (Vizt.) that About fifteen Years Ago he heard John Cohoon now decd who Claimed A part of a tract of Land Called Chesemschance as his property Say that a Marked White Oak was the first bounder of the afd. tract of Land Called Chesemans Chance and this Deponant further Saith that George Wilson and Sampson Wheatly was then present with him and Cohoon at the tree the afd. Oak Stands About One hundred and ten Yards to the North Ward of the County Road And on the West Side of the foot path that Leads from Henry Cohoons to William Wilsons and a Little to the Westward of Jones hole Branch And this Deponant further Saith not Somerset County fst The Deposition of George Wilson Aged forty Nine Years or there About being Sworn on the holy Evangelist of Almighty God Deposeth as follows (Vizt.) that about fifteen Years Ago he was in Company with John Cohoon decd. and Sampson Wheatly and Samuel Marshall and that they Came to A marked White Oak which was discribed in William Addamses Deposition And John Cohoon Laid his hand on the afd. Oak and told him and the Rest of the Company it was the first bounder of A trac tof Land Called Chesemans Chance which Stands About One hundred and ten Yards to the Northward of the County Road or thereabout and on the West Side of the foot path that Leads from Henry Cohoons to William Wilsons and a Little to the Westward of Jones hole Branch and this Deponant further Saith not Somerset County fst The Deposition of Thomas Cottingham Aged forty nine Years or there About being Sworn on the holy Evangelist of Almighty God Deposeth as follows (Vizt.) that About Twenty four years Ago Thomas Lindsey got John Lane to Lay of the Land that he bought of his father Charles Cottingham deceased and that they began at a Marked White Gum which Appeared to be marked with Sixteen Marks which Gum Stands Twenty Yards or there about to the Southeastward of the End of the ditch that Runs partly through the Lane between Thomas Lindsey and Henry Cohoon this Deponant Saith that he Carryed the Chane to lay of the afd. Land and that he Went Immediately to his father to Asked where they begun he Aswered at A marked Gum which Stands Just with Out Lindseys fence Between him and Cohoon his father Answered And Said I believe you were Right Enough and further this Deponant Saith not Somerset County fst The Deposition of John Wilson Aged Sixty one Years or there Abouts being Sworn on the holy Evangelist of Almighty God Deposeth as follows that about Twenty five Years Ago old Charles Cottingham Shewed him the marked Gum discribed in Thomas Cottinghams Deposition and told this Deponant that the afd. Gum divided his Land & the Land of John Cohoon which Gum Stands About Twenty Yards to the Southeastward of the End of A Ditch that Runs partly through the Lane Between Thomas Linsey and Henry Cohoon And this Deponant further Saith not Somerset County fst The Deposition of William Adams Aged forty three Years or thereabouts being Sworn on the holy Evangelist of Almighty God Deposeth as follows (Vizt.) that About Sixteen Years Ago he heard Thomas Cottingham Son of John Cottingham Say that he Cut Down a Red Oak for Gardin punchens which Caused his father to be Angry with him and to tell him it was a Corner tree of his Uncle Charles Cottinghams Land Called Boston and this Deponant further Saith that Thomas Cottingham Shewed him the Stump of the tree and that he Saw Some Marks in the Said Stump |
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1760-1763
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