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June
Court
1730
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Examine Evidences on Behalfe of a Certain Allex.d Wordie of the Co.ty afd in relation to the Bounds of a tract of Land Lying in y.e Co.ty afd Containing One thousand Acres Called Chuckatuck We therefore require you or any three or two of You at Some time & Place as to you or any three or two of you Shall Seem Convenient you Meet on y.e afd Land Called Chuckatuck (you first Haveing taken your Oath on y.e 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 two of you all Such Evidence as Shall be to you or any three or two of you Nominated by y.e s.d Complaniant (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 the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God in the Prsents of the Complaniant (or Deft if any) touching the truth or remembrances of their Knowledge or any thing that may relate to the Cause afd & that reduceing y.e 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 Conveniant speed Wittness W.m Planner Gent one of our Justices &c Somrsett Co.ty ss: By Virtue of a Commission from y.e Worshipfull y.e Justices of Bounds of a Certain tract of Land Called Chuckatuck belonging to M.r Allex.d Wordie in Nassawattux in y.e Co.ty afd Containing one thousand Acres Haveing in all things Pformed when the Law Directs upon our Meeting upon the said Land on y.e twenty fourth Day of Janry Ann.o Dom.r one thousand Seven Hundred & twenty Nine Proceeded and took the following Depositions Concerning the Same Viz.t Dunnock Dennis ag.d Sixty years & thereabouts being Sworn upon the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God Deposeth & saith that above forty Years ago to the Best of his remembrance he was Prsent upon Chuckatuck Land where one Phillip Conner or Connaway of Made Oath before M.r Tho.s Newbold then one of the Justices of this Co.ty as he remembers who Swore that a Stooping redd Oak then in his veiw was the Second Bounder of Chuckatuck Land which Land then Belonging to Robert Pitts & that the Ceder Post Now Standing upon y.e s.d Land & Now in his Veiw Stands in the Place where the said tree Stood or very Near it & that he Never Heard of Any one Disputeing the said two Post as a Bounder Ever Since & further Saith Not Jn.o Scott Donnock Dennis Rowland Beavins Aged Fifty Six Years or thereabouts being also Sworn upon the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God Deposeth and Saith that he Hath Been Acquainted with the said Land for this twenty Six Years Past and upwards And that the Cedar Post then in his veiw Stands where or Pretty Near the Place where a redd Oak Stooping Stood which was Deemed by all the Neighbours to be the second Bounder of Chuckatuck Land and further Saith not Jn.o Scott Roland Beavins Thomas Peal Aged Fifty Six Years or thereabouts being also Sworn upon the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God Deposeth & Saith that he he Hath Known the Land twenty Six years & upwards and that a Certain Jn.o Kelham who then Lived a tenant upon the Land belonging to Coll Scarbrough Joyning to Chuckatuck told him the said Tho.s that a Stump Standing in y.e s.d Ground now in his Veiw in w.ch Spott or Very Near (it) |
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1727-1730
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