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March Court
1726
93 afd tract of Land Called Phenix Choice & & 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 ye s.d Complainant (or Deft if any) & that you Examine them upon their Corprill oaths to be by you or any three or two of you administred on the Holy Evangelist of Allmighty God in y.e presence of ye Complainant (or Deft if any) touching y.e tenth or Remembrance of there Knowledge or any thing that may relate to ye Cause afd and that reducing y.t Severall depositions into Writing you Send ye 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 Conveniant Speed Wittness Samuell Hopkins Gent Chief Justice of our Said Court the 19.th day of Novem in the tenth year of Our Dominion &c Ann Dom 1725 (p order) p Thomas Hayward Cl On y.e back side of the foregoing Commission it was thus Endorst vizt December 27.th 1725 then Came James Rownd befor me one of his Lordships Justices of the peace for ye County of Somersett & was Qualified before me to Execute & make return of the Within Commission Will.m Fausitt January 14.th 1725 William Simpson and Edward Rownd was Qualified before me to Execute the Within Commission John Smith By vertue of a Commission Granted to John Smith Edward Rownd James Rownd and Will.m Simpson of Somersett County Bearing date y.e 19th day of Novem in y.e tenth year of our Dominion Anno Dom 1725 to Examine Evidences ^on^ of behalfe of a Certain Jones Records of the said County in relation to the bounds of a Certain tract of Land Lying in ye s.d County Called Phenixes Choice Containing five hundred acres in pursuance to which we Jno Smith Edward Rownd & W.m Simpson being Quallified did meet on y.e afd tract of Land on ye fourteenth day of January 1725/6 & in presence of Plentive & Defendant did Examine the Evidences following being first Sworn before us Thomas Harney aged forty years or thereabout did declare that about twenty three or twenty four years agoe he & woodman Stockley Junr were walkeing along & he ye s.d Stockley told ye s.d Herney that he would Goe show him his fathers Bounder & they Came to y.e Place where ^we^ met being on y.e mouth of a Creek between two pails of Marsh near to y.e house where woodman Stockley Sen.r did Live bearing North East or thereabouts from ye s.d house & there we Saw a tree Slipped four ways & he ye s.d Harney did declear that near the said tree he saw a tree marked with four Notches on y.e four sides & Some time after he saw ye s.d tree Cut Down but for what reason he Knew not & y.t he saw sprouts Grow from y.e s.d Stump & y.e s.d deponent Saith that after that tree was Cut Down he saw another marked tree near y.e head of a Cove Bearing N. E or thereabout from the other tree & being about y.e Distance of three hundred pases or thereabouts & further Saith Not The Same day George Howard aged fifty three or thereabouts did Declear that about twenty year agoe he was Gitting of Logs & Woodman Stockley Sen.r being with him pointed towards the head of a Cove to Witt ye Cove that harney told us of & told him there was his bounder and (told) |
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1725-1727
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