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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1723-1725
Volume 839, Page 119   View pdf image
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       Novr Court         1723                        119

Capt John King

         Petn
     To the worshipfull Justices of Somersett County now in Court sitting the petition of

John King humbly sheweth               Whereas your petitioner is Informed that
       among severall acts of assembly made at a Sessions of assembly begun and held at the City of
       annapolis the 23d day of September Last there is an act for the Ease of the Inhabitants of
       this province in Examining Evidences relateing to the Bounds of Land         Now for as much as your
       petitioner stands possest of a tract of Land Lying in Somersett County in Somersett parish Called
       Chance Containing Ninty acres more or Less the Bounds of which is some what precarious and uncertain
and the Evidences to prove the same Antient and Infirm   Your petitioner prays that your worships will
be pleased to proceed to appoint Commissioners according to the direction of that act to Examine Evidences
to prove or perpetuate the memory of the Bounds afd and your petitioner as in duty Bound shall
Ever pray                                                                                                Jno King
                The petition afd being read and heard and maturally deliberated   It's therefore Ordered
by the Court that a Commission Issue to Francis ALlen, William Planner, Ephraim Wilson & John Tunstall
of Somersett County Gent and that they be Commissioners to take the depositions in relation to the
Bounds of the Land afd &c


Ann Jones

   Pet.n
               To the Worshipfull Court of Justices at Dividing Creek in Somersett County now in Court

Sitting         the humble petition of Ann Jones humbly sheweth to you worships that Whereas
your poor petitioner now resides at the Court house in the County afd and hath noe Land whereby I Can
plant or make any Corn or Other Necessarys for the Support of my family   And forasmuch as their
is a Small peice of ^Cultavated^ Land that Lyeth Contiguous to the Court house afd the premisses Considered I humbly
begg your worships to grant your poor petitioner to plant the same small peice of Cultivated Land with
Corn and Such Other Necessarys as maybe for the use of your poor petitioner and family &c and in
duty Bound your petitioner will Ever pray for your worships
             the petition afd being read and heard and fully understood      It's therefore Considered & Ordered
by the Court that M.r Joseph Gray Limitt and Order where and what part of the Court hous Land
the said Ann Jones may plant for this year and Likewise what part of the said Land the Widdow
Obryan may plant &c

Whereas John Caldwell of Somersett County Gentl had hired One Patrick Kersey to do some Causway
on the road for the County use &c and Now here at this day to witt the Ninteenth day of November Ann Dom One
thousand seven hundred and twenty three the said John Caldwell present here in Court humbly prays the same
Court to appoint some persons to view the same Causway and put an Estimate there on whereupon the
Court do appoint that Capt John Jones and William Stoughton Esq.r doe meet on the said Road ^on^ by a Certain
                                                                                                                                                                (time)


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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1723-1725
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