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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1727-1730
Volume 841, Page 130   View pdf image
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           August Court           1728             130

of Stephen Coston Deceased & doe report thereon as follow's

       And also one Other Plantation of the said Costons in the Forrest
To one Dwelling house 25 foot Long & 16 foott wide double Covered Indiferant good
To one Kitchen 20 foot Long & 10 foot wide all Good
To one Milk House 10 Foott Square Pritty old
To one New Barn 30 Foot Long & 20 Wide a ten foot plank Floor at the End
with a Shed 18 foot Long & 7 Foot wide New,  To one old oven with an Indifferent
Good House over it, To one Garden with old purchases Round it, To one apple
orchad, To one peach orchad, To one quinch Orchad, To one Nussary of apple trees,
to 243 pannels of old fence round both Ends & one Side of the Orchad 9 loggs to a
Pannell, To 130 pannells of old fence pritty good Round the quinch orchad and
Nussary, To 161 pannells of good old fence 10 Logs high round one side ^and one End^ of the Corn
field, To 164 pannals of fence to Both Ends of the Pasture 7 Logs Hugh

   We do Value the abovesaid Plantation to be worth three pound Curr.t Mony
P year Wittness our Hands         Memorand.m of Stephen Costons plantation
in the Forrest and What order they are in,  To one Dwelling house 20 Foott
Long and 15 Foot wide Planked above & Below New Double Covered Battined with
Plank over the Mantle tree & one Closett Plankt & Battened on the foreside
To 64 Pannels of Fence round one side & one End of the pasture but good for Little
To 165 pannels of Fence Round ye House and Orchad 8 Logs to a pannell pritty
Good in the Orchad Containing To 55 apple trees  To 54 pannells of fence aCross
a pointe of Woods into a beaver Damn five Loggs to a pannell almost New
the abovesaid plantation we value to be worth twenty Shill.s P.r year as
Wittness our Hands and Seal                                             George Tull (seal)
                On the backside of the above Instrum.t of writing it was thus Endorsed viz.t
                                                                                          W.m Handy (seal)

             I John Scott one of his the Justices of Somrsett Coty Court
Doe Hereby Certifie that at ye request of Jno Harper I appointed the within
Geo: Tull & W.m Handy to vein the within Plantations they being an Orphans
Pursuant to an act of assembly in Such Case made & Likewise administer the
Oath prescribed by ye said Act to ye said Geo: Tull & W.m Handy as Wittness
my Hand this 22 day of August Ann.o Dom 1728                        Jno Scott

          These are to Certifie that this day to witt the 26th of June Annoq.r Dom
Seventeen Hundred twenty Eight W.m West as Deputy Coroner Came before me ye subscriber
one of his Lordships ye Lord Proprietarys Justices of the peace for the
Co.ty of Somrsett & took the Severall Oaths to the Goverment as appointed by
Act of assembly & also Subscribed the oath of abjuration an test & also took
an Oath well & truly to Execute ye office of Deputy Coroner for Somrsett County
Given under my hand ye day & year above Written            W.m Stoughton


LG  John Rider
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     John Esome
 Command was given to the Sher of Somersett County that he should Satisfie
take John Esome Late of Somersett County Planter if he should be found
in his bailywick and him should safe Keep so that he might have his body
    before the Justices of his Lordship's County Court of Somersett ^to be held at Dividing Creek^ the third tuesday of August then
    next to satisfie unto John Rider two pounds twelve shillings and Six pence farthing Curr.t mony
    and three hundred and two pounds of tob.o which to the Same ^John^ Rider in the Same Court at dividing
                                                                                                                                     Creek


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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1727-1730
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