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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1727-1730
Volume 841, Page 196b   View pdf image
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           June Court            1729                 196

to be our Commissioners to Examine Evidences on behalfe of a Certain James Hayman of the County afd
in relation to the bounds of a tract of Land Containing three hundred and fifty acres Lying in
the County afd Called Hopewell 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 aforesaid
Land Called Hopewell (you first haveing Taken your Oath on ye Holy Evangelist of
Almighty God According to act of assembly in Such Case made & 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 ye said Complanient (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 Prsents of ye Complanient
(or Deft if any) touching ye truth or remembrances of their Knowledge or any
thing that may relate to ye Cause afd & that reduceing ye Severall Depositions into
Writing you send ye 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 Gent Chief Justice of our Said Court &c

       On the Backside of the foregoing Commission it was thus Endorsed viz.t

                   The Execution of this Writt you may see by a Certain Deposition taken
before us this 7.th Day of September 1729 And herewith returned      Geo: Dashiell
                                                                                                         Tho.s Gillis
       Somrsett Co.ty fs:
                                     Depositions of Wittnesses taken at ye House of
    Sarah Hayman at ye Land Called Hopewell in Somrsett Co.ty afd the Seventh Day of
Septem Anno Dom One thousand Seven Hundred & twenty Eight by Virtue of a Commission Issuing
out of his Lordships Co.ty Co.t of Somrsett to us Directed for ye Examining of Wittnesses to
perpetuate ye Bounds of ye Said Land Called Hopewell According to Act of assembly
in Such Case provided Vizt

                William Adley Aged thirty Years or their abouts be Sworn on ye Holy Evangelist
of Almighty God in relation to ye Bounds of ye said Land Called Hopewell saith yt he was
sold by William Hayman that there was a marked Gum Standing in ye Swamp near Sarah
Hayman's Plantation that was a Corner tree of ye Land Called Hopewell & yt he walking
the Woods Near ye Said Plantation found a marked Gum according to ye Discription
Given him by Will.m Hayman which this Deponant did Expect was ye Gum Mentioned
by Said Hayman & third Bound.r of S.d Land Called Hopewell & further Saith not

          Wee the Commissioners being Caried to ye said Gum of ye request   Will.m Adley
of Jam.s Haymen son of Sarah Hayman we reversed the Course in Ord.r to find ye first
Bound.r & we find by reversing ye said Line that ye first Bound.r Should Stand in ye old
field of Tho.s Breretons where he now Lives Near a branch & ye Great Savannah & ye said
Jam.s Hayman Caused ye Line to be run from ye Gum afd According to the Course and
Distance in the Pattent which run to an Old pine Stump Marked plain with Notches
on four sides which was Expressed in the Pattent as the fourth Bound.r which
we thought was soe it agreeing both with Course and Distance in which pine Stump
there was in our Prsents a Sasiafras Staked Marked with 16 Notches & Sett
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