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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1727-1730
Volume 841, Page 145b   View pdf image
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                                         Novem Court anno 1728          145

Francis Mercer
  Commission
and affidavitt
 Somersett fs
                     Charles absolute Lord and proprietary of the provinces of maryland & avalon Lord
Baron of Baltemore &.c  To John Scott, William Handy, Hugh Porter and George Tull 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 Examine Evidences on behalfe of a Certain francis Mercer of the County afd Marriner
in Relation to the bounds of two tracts or percell of Land the one Called Glasco Containing One hundred & thirty three
Acres and the Other being part of a tract of Land Called the Strand Containing one hundred and twelve Acres Lying in
the County afd we therefore require you or any three or two of you at some time and place as to you or any three
or two of you shall Seem Convenient you meet on the afd Land you first haveing taken your Oath on the
holy Evangelist of almighty God According to Act of assembly in such Case made and Provided & 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 Complainent (or Deft if any) and that you Examine them upon their Corporall oaths
to be by your 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 two of your hands to us to Our County Court of Somersett
with all Convenient Speed Wittness Sam.ll Hopkins Gent Chiefe Justice of our said Court &c
          To the foregoeing Commission it was thereunto annexed viz.t

                   The Deposition of William Lane aged thirty three years or there about being Sworn upon the
holy Evangelist of almighty God saith's that Severall years past he was a trying his Fathers Line for a stopping
white Oake standing of the westermost side of Ireland branch & when he went home he told him he
had been trying the Line from a Stooping white oake but found that it did not answer & his father told
him the white oake Corner tree stood Lower down the said branch on the said side at this time which said
Stooping white Oake he believes it to be the Corner tree on the southermost side of the Land that was
formerly his fathers now in the Possession of M.r Francis Allen and this deponent further saith not
Sworne before us this 29th Day of October 1728                                       John Scott
                                                                                                                  William Handy
                                                                                                                  Hugh Porter


                     The Deposition of Hugh Porter aged thirty two years or there abouts being
Sworn upon the holy Evangelist of almighty God Saithe's that about Nine or ten years past being
in the woods in Company with Walter Lane Jun.r Comeing to a mark red Oake with him he told me
to the Best of my Knowledge it was a Corner tree Between Tho.s Robins and the Land that my
father Hugh Porter bought of Thomas Peal and this Deponient further saith not      Sworn
before us the 29.th day of October 1728                                                Jn.o Scott
                                                                                                          William Handy



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