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June Court 1725
37 of Land Named as afd 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 Defendants if any and That 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 Complainants afd (and Deft if any) Touching the Truth or remembrance of Their Knowledge or anything that may relate to the Cause afd and That Reduceing the severall Depositions into waiteing you send the same together with this Our Commission under your or any Three or two of your Hands to us to Our County Court of Somersett with all Convenient speed Wittness Samuel Hopkins Gent Chief Justice of Our Said Court the 20th day of march in the Ninth year of Our Dominion &c Ann Dom 1724 (p Order) Thomas Hayward Cler In Pursuant of a Commission Directed to Robert Martin, John Miller, Ephraim Heather and Richard Hudson, or any two or three of them to Examine Evidences In relation to the Bounds of three Tracts or Percells of Land Lying in the County afd the one Called Neighbourhood the other Welbeck and the Third Called Tomkins Meadow In the Tennor and Possession of Edward Crapper, and William Waltom, we the Subscribers Have mett on the Said Lands this third day of June Ann Dom 1725 first Being Quallified or Sworn Before One Justice of the Peace do Proceed to the Examination of Evidences as followeth Thomas Boaden aged Thirty five years or their abouts Being Sworn on the Holy Evangelist of almighty God saith he heard his father say John Boaden say he Lived with William Tomkins and saw the Pattent and Bounder of his Land Called Welbeck and that his Bounder stood on a Point of Land Below an Old Orchard East North East ^Thirty^ being four Perches to a Certain Creek Called Roah Creek and Two hundred Thirty and Two paces along the Marsh side to the East Corner of an New Orchard and That in Process of Time Their would Be difference about it for It was the Bounder of Three Tracts of Land and That it was Gone and where it stood was Marsh and further saith Not Thomas Mumford a Convict aged fifty years or Their abouts Being sworn saith when he was about fourteen years of Age he Lived with William Tomkin and saw a marked white Oak which stood on the Point of Land afd in the Place afd There or thereabouts and That he was Tould by William Tomkin the afd Marked Tree was a Corner Tree Between the afd Tomkins and William Waltom and further saith Not Nathaniel Crapper aged forty years or their abouts Being sworn saith That on a Certain Time he was Rideing in Company with Captain William Fassiatt Near Edmond Crappers an d he was Blameing him the said Edmond for not setting his Bounder for he Knew ^best^ where it stood (and) |
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1725-1727
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