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March Court
1723
160 the 19th day of December in ye Eighth year of Our Dominion &c Anno Dom 1723 Thomas Hayward Clk The Execution of this Com^m^ission Appears In a Skedula herto annexed wittness our hands this Fourth day of May Ann Dom One thousand seven hundred & twenty four Robt Martin Adam Spence Senr Somersett County fs In Obedience to the Commission from the worship full Court of ^the^ Somersett County afsd Dated ye 19.th day of December ^Ann.o Dom^ 1723 to us John Purnall Samuel Hopkins Robert Martin and Adam Spence Sen.r to Examin Evidence in Relation to ye Bounds of a Certain Tract of Land Lying In Synapuckson Neck In Somersett County afsd Called Mayfield Containing five hundred acres Belonging to a Certain William Fasett According as by the said precept we are Directed we the subscribers In Presents of the said William Fasitt Plantive and Edmond Crapper and William Turvill defendants went upon the said Land Called Mayfields On the fourteenth day of May In this present year Vizt 1724 and William Freeman Being Brought an Evidence for ye said William Fasitt Plantive Being sworn On the holy Evangelist sayeth that on ye Brinck of Newhaven Bay where the said Plantive and Evidence & we then stood (Being Carried ^by the^ Direction of the said William Freeman ye Evidence afsd he Being aged forty two years or thereabouts) Being about Midway Between two points Makeing unto the said Bay One of the points Vizt ye Northermost Being a thickett of Pursimons trees and On ye Southermost a thicket of Oak trees a small distant North Est East from an Old Orchard of Aple trees where the said William Freeman Being a Corner Tree sworn as afsd On ^his^ his Oath sayeth that he very well Remembers that there stood a marked White Oak which he Know to be a Corner tree and first Bounder of a Tract of Land Called Goshan and allso the first Bounder of the said Tract of Land Called ^may feilds & further saith not^ the same 4th day of May and year afsd Henry Alexander aged thirty three years or thereabouts Being Brought On Evidence by the said William Fas Fasitt Plft Being sworn on ye holy Evangelist saith (Coming to ye same place on the brinck of the said Bay Called Newhaven Bay wherein the said Freman declared) that he the said Alexander about seven or Eight years ago at ye Request of the said Fasitt assisted to Cary the Chain Runing Out ye said Tract of Land called Mayfield M.r R Wrixham White surveying ye same and that ye same ^his^ and that he ye said Alexander Very well remembers that they begin ^at^ the same place of the said brink of New haven Bay where the said Freeman Hath declared that ye said white Oak Being ye First Bounder of Mayfields stood & that ^at^ all the ^time^ Begun runing ye Lines of the said Tract at ye Time afsd he heard severall Evidences standing at ye same place or brink say that there stood ye Marked White Oak which was the First Bounder of Goshan and also the First Bounder of the said Tract of Land Called Mayfeilds and further sayeth Not And from thence Being Conducted (by) |
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1723-1725
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