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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1727-1730
Volume 841, Page 176b   View pdf image
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           March Court        1728            176

Called Simpleton told him ye Said Jn.o Bishop yt ye Line of Duram House land
on yt Side ran Close by ye Ceader tree afd & further yt ye Said Line ran into
Selby's Bay Leaveing all ye trees or woods to Selbys side & ye Said Jno Bishop
Declared yt ye afd Tho.s Selby told him yt his Land Called Simpleton ran
along by ye afd Ceader tree as did ye afd Duram House Land & further ye afd
Jno Bishop Carried us unto A Small Hickory tree Standing about Sixty yards
to ye Northward of a path yt Leeds from Bennocey Edwards to M.r W.m Whittingtons
& Declared yt his father told him yt that Hickory tree was a line tree of duram
House Land & from thence ye Said Jno Bishop Carried us unto a place Called
Patricks Spring & Shewed us two read Oaks trees Standing some what to ye Southward
of ye Said Spring & Declared on his Oath afd yt Jn.o Patrick now declared
deceased told him yt ye Said Jn.o Patrick's father Rory Patrick made [illegible]
Charged him ye afd Jn.o Patrick that he Should not Cutt down any Timber or
Smaller trees or Other Woods to ye Southward of those read Oak trees for fear
of being Troubled by Henry Bishop Owner of ye Land Called Duram House
Land for by them trees was ye Bounder & yt his father Rory Patrick helped
to Carry ye Chain at ye Survey of Duram House Land.   The third Evidence Examined
was Jn.o Scarbrough who on his Oath Declared yt his father Mathew Scarbrough
Shewed him ye Same Gum tree Declared by Cap.t Nath.l Hopkins & told him
it was ye Second Corner tree of Duram House Land Standing on the Head of the
North Line & yt he heard his father say he was one of the Chain Carriers at ye Survey
of ye Said Land & further Declares yt Jn.o Patrick now dec.d told him yt his
father Charged him not to Cutt any fence Loggs Stakes or Other Timber to ye Southward
of ye two Oakes by Patricks Spring afd in Jn.o Bishops Examination as
afd &a

                   The afd Examinations taken In Pursuance of ye afd Commission on the
16th & 17th day's of July Ann.o Dom 1728                                         Jn.o Purnell
                                                                                                 By     Johnson Hill
                                                                                                          Edward round


LG  Hocken Hull short
                   ag.t
GD:  William Hopkins
 Somersett fs
                      William Hopkins Late of Somersett County merch.t was
Sumoned to answer unto Hocken Hull Short of a plea that he render
                               unto him his reasonable account of the time he was Bailife and receiver of
him the said Hocken Hull Short &.a
                                                          And whereupon the same Hocken Hull by Levin Gale his
attorney saith that whereas the afd William the tenth day of May anno Dom One thousand
seven hundred and twenty Six at somersett County afd within the Jurisdiction of this Court by the
hands of a Certain Thomas Newbold did receive two hundred Gallons of Mollasses of the value of
twenty pounds Curr.t mony of and two hundred pounds of sugar of the value of four pounds
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