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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1727-1730
Volume 841, Page 246b   View pdf image
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            March Court                   1729                     246

William Fasitt Jun.r
   Commission and affidavits
 Somersett County ss     Charles absolute Lord and proprietary of the provinces of
Maryland and avalon Lord Baron of Baltemore &.c  To John Donelson, Joseph Gray
                                     Isaak Bredall and Richard Hudson all of Somersett County Gentlemen Greeting Know Ye that
we have appointed you or any three or two of you to be our Commissioners to Examine Evidences of on behalfe of
a Certain William Fasitt Jun.r of the County afd Gent in relation to the bounds of a tract of Land Lying on the seaside
in ye Co.ty afd Called Unity We therefore require You or any three or two of You that
at Some time or place as to You or any three or two of you Shall Seem Convenient You Meet
on ye afd Land Called Unity (You first haveing taken Your Oath on the 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 s.d Complanient (or Deft if Any) & Y 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 Complanient (or
Deft if any) touching ye truth or remembrance of their Knowledge or anything y.t
May relate to ye Cause afd & yt 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 Samuel
Hopkins Gent Chief Justice of our s.d Co.t &.a

          On ye Backside of ye foregoing Commission it was thus Endorsed vizt

          Maryland ss:  These are to Certifie yt Jn.o Donelson & Isaiah Bredall two of
ye within Commissioners were duly Quallified as ye Law directs Before me one of his
Lordships Justices for Somrsett Co.ty ye twelfth day of March 1728/9      W.m Fasitt

          Somrsett ss:  We ye subscribers two of ye Commissioners appointed by ye Worshipfull
ye Justices of Somrsett Co.ty To Examine Evidences on Behalfe of a Certain Willim
Fasitt Jun.r of ye Co.ty afd Gent.m in relation to ye Bounds of a tract of Land Lying on ye seabord
side in ye Co.ty afd Called Unity Being Quallified as ye Law directs Mett on ye afd Land
ye 21.st Day of March 1728/9  Where Came Before us Cap.t W.m Fasitt aged about Sixty
Six Years & being Sworn upon ye Holy Evangelist of Almighty God (We being then by
ye side of a Locust post Stuck in ye Ground on ye side of a Small hill Near ye Orchard
of Charles Collins on ye South East side of ye same) that According to ye Best of his
Knowledge this Deponant Saw ye first Bounder of ye afd tract of Land Called Unity
Standing Near ye Place where ye afd Locust Post Now Stands & further this
Deponant Says that a Certain W.m Tompkins who was ye first taker up of a Certain
tract of Land Called Burley (of which ye afd tree Standing Near ye Place or
where ye afd Locust Post Now Stands was a Corner tree) told ye s.d Deponant
a Certain Jn.o White when he was takeing up ye afd Land Called Unity desired
Leave of ye afd Tompkins to Joyn Bounders which ye s.d Tompkins refused
But yt Some time after ye s.d Tompkins told this Deponant they had Joyned
Bounders & further Saith Not

         At ye same time & Place also Came Before us Tho.s Collins Aged about
                                                                                                             (thirty)


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