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on behalf of a Certain William Furnis of Somerset County in Relation to the bounds of two tracts of Land the one Called Fair Spring the Other Double Purchase or the Bounds of Any other Land on which the Same may depend 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 Fair Spring and Double purchase or Any other Lands on which the bounds of the afd. Land May depend You first haveing taken Your Oaths on the holy Evangelist 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 Corporall Oaths to be by you or Any three or two of You Administred on the holy Evangelist 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 Reducing 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 22d day of November Anno Dom. 1760 And now to witt at a Court of his Lordship held at Princes Ann Town the third Tuesday of June Anno Dom. one One thousand Seven hundred and Sixty ^ before the Justices thereof Came Thomas Jones, Jessey King, and Zorobable King three of the Gent Nominated in the within Commission and Returned the Same Endorsed in Manner following with the Severall Depositions thereto Annexed 20d: Janry: 1761 This day was the within Named Thomas Jones, Jesse King and Zorobable King duely Qualified to Execute the within Commission According to Act of Assembly in Such Case made and Provided before Ephm. Wilson The Execution of the within Commission Appears by the Severall Depositions hereunto Annexed taken by Thos. Jones Jesse King Zorobable King The Deposition of James Furnis of Somerset County Aged fifty Seven Years or thereabouts being Sworn on the holy Evangelist of Almighty God Deposeth and Saith that he Sundry times Saw a Marked Post Standing on the Edge of the Marsh of the South Side of Back Creek below the Wading place about thirty five Yards to the Westward of a Gully Issuing out of the Said Creek and Running Southerly Between the Lands of Levin Wilson and William Furnis which Said Post this deponant Saith his Brother William Furnis told him was the first Bounder of a tract of Land then in his Possession Called Fair Spring and further Saith that he Sundry times heard one James Strawbridge Advise the Said William Furnis not to Sell that Slip of Land of the West Side of the Said Gully as his Bounder Lay on that Side and further Saith not taken this 18th day of Febry Anno Dom. 1761 James Furnis The Deposition of William Catlin of Somerset County Aged Seventy Eight Years or thereabouts being Sworn on the holy Evangelist of Almighty God deposeth and Saith that About fifty Years past he was in Company with one James Strawbridge who Shewed this deponant a Red Oak then Standing which he Said was the first Bounder of William Furnis's Land which Said Oak Stood on a Bank or Point of Land of the South Side of Back Creek and about ten Steps to the Westward of a Small Gully Issuing out of the afd. Creek and Running Southerly Between the Lands of Levin Wilson and the Present William Furnis and further Saith not the 18th Febry Anno Dom 1761 William Catlin The Deposition of James Furnis Aged fifty Seven Years or thereabouts being Sworn on the holy Evangelist of Almighty God Saith that he has Several times Above thirty five Years Past heard Patrick Mathews and James Strawbridge Say that a Scrub White Oak Marked with Notches as a Bounder was the dividing tree Between Andrew Thomson and James Furnis the Grand Father to the Present William Furnis of their Land Called Double Purchase which Said tree Stands about twelve Yards to the Eastward of a Small Valley that Leads into the Main Branch of Back Creek and About Twenty Seven Yards to the Northward of Said Branch and this Deponant further Saith that |
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1760-1763
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