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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1725-1727
Volume 840, Page 78b   View pdf image
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                               Novem Court            1725            78

Edward Clark Comrsn
& affidavitts
 Somersett fs  Charles absolute Lord and proprietary of the Province of Maryland
and avalon Lord Baron of Baltemore &c   To John Smith John Miller John
          Holland and John Aydelett all of Somersett County Gentl.m Greeting Know ye that we have
Oppoinded you or any three or two of you to be Our Commissioners to Examine Evidences on behalfe
of a Certain Edward Clerk of y.e County afd Gentl in Relation to the Bo^u^nds of a tract of Land
Called Fenwicks Choice in ye County afd we Therefore Require you or any ^three or two^ two or three of you
that at Some time & place as to you or any three or two of you Shall Seem Convenient you meet
on ye afd Land Named as afd & 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
Deft (if any) & that you Examine them upon there Corporall Oaths to be by you or any three or two
of you Administred on y.e holy Evangelist of Almighty God in the presents of y.e Complainant
afd (and Defendant if any) Touching the truth or rememberances of their Knowledge or any
thing that May relate ^to^ the Cause afd And that reducing the severall Deposessions into writing
you send the Same together with this our Commission under you or any three or two
of your hands to us ot our County Court of Somersett with all Convenient Speed wittness Samuell
Hopkins Gent Chiefe Justice of Our Said court y.e 15th day of June in y.e 10.th year of
Our Dominion &c  Anno Dom 1725   On y.e Back Side of ^the foregoing Commission^ the deed It was thus Endorsed
viz.t  The Within Named Jno Smith John Miller & John Aydelett Sworn before me on
the holy Evengelist to the Porformance of the within Primisses this 24.th day of August
1725                                                                                                   William Fausitt

Somersett County fs:   In pursuance of a Comission Directed to John Smith John Miller
John Holland & John Aydelott or to any three or two of you ^them^ to Examine Evidences In
Relation to the Bounds of a tract of Land Called Fenwicks Choyce in the Tenor & possession
of Edward Clerk In y.e County afd we the Subscribers have mett on the S.d Land
This twenty fourth Day of August Anno Dom 1725 first being Quallified or sworne
before one Justice of the peace do proceed to the Examineation of Evidences a followeth
Captain William Fausitt Aged 63 years or there abouts being sworn ^on^ of y.e holy Eveng^e^lest
of Almighty God Saith that about 22 years ago he Came for Lodging to the house of
woodman Stockley & in y.e North East Side of y.e plantation a point Lying between
two Mashes Near to y.e Mouth of Ceder ^Neck^ Creek he saw a Corner Marked white Oak Marked
with the Surveyors Mark which according to the relation of M.r Fenwick to him he
took to be the first bounder of his Land Called Fenwicks Choyce & that his head Line
Came up beyond a Gully above where Edward Clerk Now Liveth & further Saith Not

       Benjamin Stockley aged 27 years or thereabouts being Sworn Saith that he heard his father
say that he had bought that tract of Land Called Fenwicks Choice ^&^ that the said Fenwick had told him
where to find the first Bounder and according to his directions he found a Corner Marked white Oake
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