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June Court
1725
37 the twelfth day of June 1725 and in the presence of the said Complainant (no deft appearing) on the afd tract of Land Came Price Collins an Evidence Aged 37 years old or thereabouts and on his Corporall Oath to him administred as afd saith that about Eight or nine years agon he was at Capt William Fasitts he the said Collings to be the said Fasitt that M.r Whittington, Timothy Bromly and the said deponant surveyed the said tract Called ratcliffs adventure but they did not Know where the bounders of the said Land stood says the said Capt W.m Fassitt in answer I fancy the bounds of the said Land stands on a hammock at the bottom of the said deponants pasture but the said deponant knows not where the said hammock nor bounder is and further saith not the same day and at the same place Came Timothy Bromly an Evidence aged 35 years or thereabouts and being Examined on his Corporall Oath as afd saith that he Knows nothing of the bounds of the afd Land neither of his Own Knowledge or Otherwise and further Saith not The same day on the said Land Came John Cropper an Evidence aged 26 years or thereabouts and being Examined as afd saith that when Ebenezer Cropper settled his bounds of assateague fields that Capt William Fassitt was then there standing at the said settled bounds and said he wondered people did not take more Care to settle their bounds for says he they that have no bounders have no Land asking who owned that Land Over there pointing over to one of the Points of Land at the bottome of the afd tract Called ratcliffs adventure and the said Capt Will.m Fassitt said if he Could remember any thing about the bounds of the said tract Called Ratcliffs adventure it stood on the ^point^ afd further Saith not the above depositions and Examinations taken the day and date abovesaid Wittness Our hands Ephraim Heather, James Rownd, William Simson
Somersett County Gent Greeting Know ye that we have appointed you or any three or two of you to be our Commissioners to Examine Evidences on Behalf of a Certain William Waltom and Edmond Crapper both of the County afd Gent in Relation to the Bounds of three Tracts of Land Lying in the County afd the One Called Neighbourhood the Other Welback and the third Called Tomkins Meadow We Therefore Regnize you or any three or two of you that at som Time and Place as to you or any three or two of you shall seem Convenient you meet on the afd Three Tracts (of) |
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