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1729 213 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) & yt 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 Psents 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 & yt reduceing ye 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 Gent Chief Justice of our Said Co.t &c To the above Commission it was thereunto annexed The Deposition Maj.r Will.m Planner AGed 60 years or there abouts Declared on ye Holy Evangelist of Almighty God he Never heard or Knew no Other Place Called by ye Name of the Head of Coulbourns Creek but where ye old road Crest Over & there Stood a marked Oak on ye South Side thereof which severall People told him was ^a^ Bounder of a tract of Land Belonging to Coll Coulbourn & further Saith Not Which Bounder appears by a Cerder post Standing in ye place Marked with Sixteen Notches but ye tree Decayed and Gou which poster Stands about 140 yards from ye place Deemed ye Head of ye Creek which Head appears by a forked Gum Sliped on Each side of Each fork This for rememberance HEreof The Deposition of Anthony Bell aged 70 years or upwards Declares on ye Holy Evangelist of Almighty God that he Never Heard or Knew any other place Called by ye Name of ye Head of Coulbourns Creek but where the Now Main road Crosses a Little below ye Now Standing Chapple & further Saith not This is to Certifie by vertue of a Commission to us Granted that we Mett on the Spott & took ye above Depositions and returns Ennext with ye Commission Given under our Hands this thirtieth Day of July in ye Year of our Lord God 1729 Tho.s Williams Tho.s Dixon These are to Certifie that we the subscribers upon Our Oaths have Viewed the Land and Plantation of Benja Chapman an Orphan under the Care of Samuel Gillett the Improvements as Followeth viz.t One Old Dwelling house thirty five foot Long and 15 foot wide An Other Twenty and Sixteen both Old and Decayed another fifteen foot and ten and 175 apple trees seventy of them Indifferent Large and Likely the rest the Rest some barked with Creatures ye rest Small and S[illegible] with 50 peach trees and 55 old Shrubbs of quince trees and 893 Pannells of fence for the most part Old and Rotten the rent of the Plantation afd of the Value of 400 pence P year given under our hands this 10.th day July 1729 Wm Land (seal) Edward Jones (seal) July ye 10th day 1729 Then Wm Lane and Edward Jones was Sworn before me to View ye Lands &c within Mentioned as Wittness my hand Jno Scott |
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1727-1730
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