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August Court
1725
46 petitioner therefore prays your worships to Issue a Commission according to the form of the act of Assembly in Such Case Lately made and provided to four such persons as you shall think Proper to Examine Wittnesses to perpetuate the bounderys of the said Lands and your Petitioner as in duty bound shall Ever pray Thomas Gillis The petition afd being read and heard and maturally Considered It's therefore ordered by the Court that a Commission Issue or by the Petition afd is praid and that George Dashiell ^Henry^ Jno ^Ballard^ Caldwell John Leatherbury and Edward North of Somersett County Gent be and are appointed Commissioners to Examined Evidences in relation to the premisses afd &c
prays your worships would allow him to be tax Free and your Petitioner as in Duty Bound shall Ever pray Thomas SCott The Petition afd being Read and heard and the premisses Considered Its Therefore Ordered by the Court that the afd Thomas Scott be Levy Free as by the Pet.n afd is Pray'd untill Such time as he shall be restored to his ability of body to Labour whereby he might discharge his Taxes &c
in his Said Family to gett his Liveing the humble request of David Shehe The pet.n afd being read & heard and the premisses Considered Therefore its Ordered by the Court that the afd David Shehe be discharged from paying of Taxes untill he shall be restored to his former ability of Body whereby he might Labour to discharge the same &c
Petition desires your worships may pleas to sett me Tax free and your poor Petitioner will at all times be in duty bound to pray W.m Murray The petition afd being Read and heard and fully determined Wherefore it is Considered by the Justices here that the afd W.m Murray be for the for the future Levey Free as by the pet.n afd is praid &c |
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