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March Court 1761 78 day of October in the year of our Lord God 1760 Before us Samuel Addams and Teague Riggen Commissioners Appointed by the Worshipfull the Justices of Somerset County Court to Examine Evidences in Relation to the Bounds of the tract of Land Called Greenfield or Any other Lands on which the Same may depend in the County afd. and we being Qualified to Execute the Same Commission and Notice Given Agreable to the Act of Assembly in Such made and provided &c. Somerset To wit The Deposition of Capn. Henry Schoolfield Aged Sixty years or there About being Sworn on the holy Evangelist of Almighty Deposeth as followeth that Some years Ago this Deponant was present when Stevens White and Alexander Maddox Settled a Bounder Between the afd. Stevens White and the afd. Alexander Maddox by Both the parties Concent and the afd. Alexander Maddox, Levin Powell, William Benson and Thomas Benson haveing all part of the tract of Land Called Greenfield in their Possession and the Said Greenfield Calling on the Line of the Land that then was in possession of the Said Stevens White Agreed to Settle a bounder for the Second Bounder of the tract of Land Called Greenfield in a North Course and About Twenty five poles from the Bounder that this Deponant Saw Settled Between the afd. Stevens White and the afd. Alexander Maddox and for the first bounder of the tract of Land Called Greenfield it being decayed the fore mentioned persons to witt Alexander Maddox, Levin Powell, Wm. Benson and Thomas Benson all Agreed to Reverse the Corse from the post Then Set up for the Second Bounder of the tract of Land Called Greenfield One hundred and fifty poles East which Corse went into the Swamp of Pocomoke River About Thirty Six poles where the fourmentioned persons to witt Alexander Maddox, Levin Powell, William Benson and Thomas Benson all Agreed to Settle a marked post for the first bounder of the tract of Land Called Greenfield and Accordingly the post was Set up with the Consent afd. and further this Deponant Saith not Somerset to witt The Deposition of Henry Schoolfield Junr. Aged thirty Six Years or thereabout Being Sworn on the holy Evangelist of Almighty God Deposeth as follows that Some years Ago he was present when the post was Set up Between the afd. Stevens White and the Said Alexander Maddox which is Discribed in Capn. Henry Schoolfield Deposition and all persons was Agreed to the Seting up of the Same that was Concerned and further this Deponant Saith not Somerset to wit The Deposition of John Tompson Aged forty Years or there About being Sworn on the holy Evangelist of Almighty God Deposeth as follows that Some Years Ago he was present when the post was Set up Between the afd. Stevens White And the Said Alexander Maddox which is Discribed in Capn. Henry Schoolfield Deposition and all persons was Agreed to the Seting up of the Same that was Concerned and further this Deponant Saith not The above Depositions was taken the day and Year Above Written by us the Subscribers as Witness our hands and Seals Samuell Addams {Seal} Teague Riggen {Seal}
Examine Evidences on behalf of a Certain John Goslin of Somerset County in Relation to the Bounds of a tract of Land Called Sand Ridge 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 it Shall Seem Convenient you meet on the afd. Land Called Sand Ridge You first haveing taken your Oaths on the holy Evangels 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 Deft. and that you or Any three or two of you Examine them upon their Corporal 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 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 Thomas Hayward Esqr Chief Justice of our Said Court the 22d day of June Anno Dom. 1758 And now to witt at a Court of his Lordship held at Princes Ann Town the third Tuesday of March Anno Dom. 1761 before the Justices thereof Came Louther Dashiell and Thomas Dashiell Two of the Gentlemen Nominated in the within Commission and Returned the Same Endorsed in Manner following Aug. 22d. 1758 This day was the within mentioned Louther Dashiell and Thomas Dashiell Qualified before me the Subscriber to Execute the within Commission Agreeable to the power and Authority therein Given them Before me Ephm. Wilson We |
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1760-1763
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