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August Court 1725
57 Somersett County fs: Charles absolute Lord and proprietary of the provinces of maryland and avalon Lord Baron of Baltemore &c To John Scarbrough Southy Whittington Nathaniel Hopkins and Edmond Hough all of Somersett County Gent Greeting Know Ye that we have appointed you or any three or two of you to be Our Commissioners to Examined Evidences on behalfe of a Certain Jno Kellem of the County afd Gent in Relation to the bounds of a tract of Land lying in the County afd on Pocomoke Called Kellum's Choyce We require you or any three or two of you that at Some time and place as to you or any three or two of you shall seem Convenient you meet on the afd tract of Land Named as afd and there Caus 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 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 ye Presence of the Complainant afd (and deft if any) touching the truth or REmembrance of their Knowledge or any thing that men Relate to the Cause afd and that Reduceing the severall depositions into writing 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 Chiefe Justice of Our Said Court the twentieth day of March in the Ninth Year of our Dominion &c ann Dom one thousand seven hundred & twenty four On the Back side of the foregoing Commission it was thus Endorsed vizt The Execution of the within Commission appears by a Certain Schedule hereunto annexed Somersett County viz.t By vertue of a Commission to us directed bearing date the twentieth of march 1724 to Examine Evidences in Relation to the first Bounds of a tract of Land Called Kellum's Choyce belonging to a Certain John Kellum in the County afd Lying in Pocomoke we the Subscribers being qualifyed have appointed a day as the Law directs and have mett on the afd Land and Caused to Come before us the 7th day of July 1725 W.m Whittington aged about forty one years or thereabouts saith that he was a Long with his father when the abovesaid tract of Land was Surveyed and doth beleive that the tree where we mett being a white Oak marked on four sides with four Notches on Each side Standing Close by a maple about a quarter of a mile from a large Savanough belonging to One John Bivans that it's the first bounder of Kellum's Choyce and further Sayeth Not Charles Nicholson aged about 55 years was with Coll: W.m Whittington and heard him order the abovesaid tree (as the white Oak) to be marked for the first bounder of Kellum's Choyce and he the Said Nicholson marked the said tree to the Best of his Knowledge for the first Bounder and further Saith not taken before us the day & Year above Mentioned Edmond Hough Southy Whittington |
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1725-1727
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