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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1727-1730
Volume 841, Page 152   View pdf image
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              March Court     Anno     1728         152

of a Commission to us Directed from Somrsett Co.ty Co.t the above Deposition was
taken before us                           This Deposition was taken            Ephraim Willson
at the request of Edward Beauchamp   Ephraim Willson                  Boaz Walston
                                                                                                      John Trehearn


Pat & John Atkinson
Commission & affidavitts
 Somrsett fs:  Charles absolute Lord & proprietary of ye provinces of
maryland & avalon Lord Baron of Baltemore &a To John Scott
                                  Will.m Handy Geo: Tull and Robert Mitchell all of Somrsett Co.ty Gent.m
Greetings 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 Patience and John atkinson of ye Co.ty
in relation to the Bounds of a tract of Land Lying in ye Said Co.ty Called America  Wee
therefore Require you or any three or two of you that at Some time & place as to you or
any three or two of you Shall Seem Convenient you Mete on ye afd Land Called america
(you first haveing taken your Oath on ye Holy Evangelist of almighty God according to
act of assembly in Such Case made & Provided) and there Cause to Come before you or any
three or to of you all Such Evidences as Shall be to you or any three or two of you
Nominated by ye Said Complaniant (or Deft if any) & that you Examine them upon
their Corporall Oaths to be by you or any three or two of you administred on ye Holy
Evangelist of almighty God in ye presence of ye Complaniant (or Deft if any) touching
the truth or remembrances of their Knowledge or any thing that may relate to ye Caus
afd & 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 Co.ty Co.t of Somrsett with all Convenient Speed Wittness Saml Hopkins
Gen Chief Justice &a                     The Execution of the within Commission appears
by the Severall Deposition's hereunto Annexed                     W.m Handy
                                                                                           George Tull
    The Deposition of Edm.d Dickerson Sen.r aged Sixty three years or thereabouts being
Sworn upon ye Holy Evangelist of almighty God before us the Subscribers on ye 14th day
of Jenry 1728/9 Saith yt when Coll Will.m Whittington was Survayer of Somrsett Co.ty he
Comeing to Survey Cornelias Morris Land Called affreca he ye Said Edm.d being Psent
at ye Survey ye Said Coll Whittington Asked Joseph Gray where he Left of & the said
Whittington bid me tell my father Morris yt if he would not Come & being there when
M.r Gray Left of he would not Survey none for him Coll Whittington Desired this
Deponant to goe in the Branch & see if y.t Sipruss tree was Marked which Sipruss did
Stand in ye Branch near the Boeing our ^over^ from Mr Jos: Gray's to his son Tho.s Gray by a
Foot Bridge which Bridge remains Still in the Same place & this Deponant went in the
Branch & see the Said Sipruss Standing in ye place afd being Marked with Sixteen
Notches on four sides & ye Said Coll Whittington Ordered ye Claim to be Carried to the
Sipruss tree afd & Measure from ye tree afd to him and there Laid out for Cornelias
Morris from yt tree three Hundred Acres of Land which Land ye S.d Jeremiah Morris
                                                                                                                         (had)


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