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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1725-1727
Volume 840, Page 36   View pdf image
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    June                   1725                       36
Somersett County fs:   By vertue of a Commission to us directed bearing date the twentieth of march 1724 to
Examine Evidences in relation to the first bounders of two tracts of Land Lying in the County afd on
the seaboard side the one Called S.t Lawrence the other Called Deale, Deale belonging to Elizabeth
Townsend and S.t Lawrence belonging to Maj.r Hudson but at John Hudsons Charge done we the
subscribers be^ing^ qualifyed according to Law have appointed a day as the Law directs and have mett
on the afd Lands and Caused to Come before us this 10.th day of June 1725 M.r Abraham Smith aged
45 years or thereabouts and being on his Oath saith that the place where we mett was near to the first
bounder of Deale being near to a Large marsh on the south west side being on a point of land about
Sixteen Yards from ye said Marsh with a Small thickett of bushes between the said place and the
marsh and further saith not                  the same day was Sworn William Pointer aged fifty five years
or thereabouts saith that he formerly saw a marked hicory that stood on the point where we mett
being right against a post and rented fence being Near to the place where the afd Smith Swore to but
Knew not whose bounder it was but Called his fathers bounder and further sayeth not
the same day Cornelius Ennis aged 41 years or thereabouts deposeth and Saith that on the point
where we mett near to the same place as afd he saw a marked hicory that was a Corner tree of some
Land but he Knew not what Land about five or Six Yards from the afd bushes and further Saith
not      the same day Came Thomas Pointer son of William Pointer aged 22 years on Oath did
say that Natt: Price told him on that Point was a marked hicory and was a marked tree of Deale
and further sayeth not      We mett also the same day viz.t 10.th day of June 1725 on St Lawrence
and Caused to Come before us William Pointer aged as before and saith that his brother Thomas Poynter
deceased told him that the first bounder of St Lawrence stood on the South East End of a hammock
of woods Lying on the North side of Coppatola Creek and further saith not
as also Came Abraham Smith aged as afd and deposeth on Oath and Saith that Natt Price told him
that ^he^ the said Price Cutt down a Corner tree or a Line tree he Knew not which near to the Middle of a point
of Land about One hundred yards from the afd Oake hammock where William Pointer swore too on
the N ^side^ of the afd hammock and further saith not      As also Thomas ^Pointer^ Pointer son of William Poynter
aged 22 years or thereabouts deposeth and sayth on Oath that his Uncle Told him viz.t Thomas
Pointer that the first bounder of Saint Lawrence stood on the afd hammock Close by the afd Creek
and further saith not as also Dennis Hudson aged 25 years or thereabouts on his Oath doth say
that John Webb told him that Near to a mulbury tree in a Small Old field with some Limbs Left of
standing on the Middle of the afd Point of Land between 2 Marshes where abraham Smith Swore to
that there stood thee tree that Natt Price had LIked to have suffered for and the said Deponant
asked why so and the said Webb told him that because it was the first bounder of Capt
                                                                                                                      (Pointers)


 
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