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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1727-1730
Volume 841, Page 119   View pdf image
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                 August Court                   1728            119

(you first haveing taken your Oath on the Holy Evangelist of almighty good according to Act
of assembly in Such Case made and provided) 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 Deft 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
presents of the Complainent (or Deft if any) touching the truth or remembrances of their Knowledge
or any thing that may 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
or two of your hands to us to Our County Court of Somersett with all Convenient Speed wittness
Saml Hopkins Gent.m Chiefe Justice of our said Court the 23.d day of aprill in the 11.th year
of Our Dominion &c      On the Back side of the foregoeing Commission it was thus Endorst viz.t

          The Execution of the within Commission appears by a Certain Schedule hereto annext
Somersett County fs                                                                  Test         George Dashiell
                                                                                                                Robert Jones

                                  Depositions of Wittnesses Taken at the house of Thomas Roe at
the Devills Island or Goulden Quarter in Somersett County afd on the fourteenth day of June
Anno Dom One thousand Seven hundred and twenty six by vertue of a Commission Issueing out
of his Lordships the right Honrble the Lord proprietary of the provinces of Maryland and
avalon Lord Baron of Baltemore &.c  this Court of Somersett County to us Directed for the
Examining wittnesses for the perpetuating the bounds of a percell of Land Called Purgatory
on behalfe of the said Thomas Roe viz.t

                         John Laws of Somersett County planter aged about fifty year or
thereabout Sworn and Examined in Relation to the Boundarys of the said Land Called
Purgatory Saith as followeth viz.t
                                                            That about twenty five years agoe he was with
Coll Whittington a takeing up a peice of Land for Thomas Roe at the Devills Island and
he Carried the Chain and when they had run a peace of Land Called graves End at the uper
End of the said Land there was a post set up in the Marsh which he saw Sett Down to the
best of his Remembrance and Thomas Roes Land Called Purgatory was on the South
East side of the Land Called graves End and that the first Bounder of ye Land Called Purgatory
was Sett at the point Called the Egles nest point and as Coll Whittington run the Length of
the Land Called graves end this Deponent Carried the Chain aCrose the Land Called
Purgatory two or three times to try the Bredth aCrose it Being the Land then Taken
up and further Saith not                                                                  John Laws

             George Hutchings of Somersett County planter aged about fifty Seven
years being Sworn and Examined in Relation to the Boundarys of the said Land
Called Purgatory Saith as follows vizt      About Twenty five years agoe that he
                                                                                                          (was


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