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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1730-1733
Volume 842, Page 133b   View pdf image
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November Court                1731                     133

Heard John Roberts alias Grandee make oath that the pine Stump (Decribed
in John Laws Deposition on the other side) was the first bounder of Ellots
Choice and that his father Francis Roberts told him Several times that the
said pine Stump was the first bounder of Ellots Choice and further this
Deponant Saith that he heard John Windsor Sen.r make oath that
Francis Roberts told him that the aforesaid pine Stump was the bounder
of Ellots Choice and that he had Seen the tree with the marks on it four
Natches on four Sides and further Saith not

John Miller Aged 57 Years or thereabouts Deposed on the Holy Evangelist
of Almighty God for Edw.d Roberts Def.t Saith that 39 Years agoe Last
October he was hunting on a Saturday Night and his Dogs treed two
Raccoons up a Large pine tree Marked with Sixteen Notches Standing
on a point of Woods by a marsh side to the South ward of Edward Roberts
House the Stump of which this Deponant now Stands by and in the
Morning Francis Roberts Came to him and Shot Down the Raccons
and told him it was well that he did not fall that tree and further Saith
not      The aforesaid Depositions taken the 29.th of April Ann 1731
on the aforesaid Land Called Ellots Choice by            Thom.s Dashiell
                                                                                  Robert Jones


Jos Brittingham Commission

    and affidavitts
 Somerset ss
                        Charles absolute Lord and proprietary of the provinces of Maryland and
avalon Lord Baron of Baltemore &.c   To James Martin James Rownd, John Holland and
                   John Miller all of Somerset County Gent Greeting  Know Yee that we have appointed you or
any three or two of you to be Our Commissioners to Examine Evidences on behalfe of a Certain Joseph
Brittingham of the County aforesd in Relation to the Bounds of a tract of
Land Lying in the County aforesd Called Mount Hope 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
mount Hope (you first having taken your oaths on the holy Evangelist of
Almighty God According to act of assembly in Such Case made and provided)
and 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 the Said Complainant
or Deft and that you or any three or two of 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 presents
of the Complainant or defend.t if any touching the truth or the remembrances of their knowledge or anything that may relate
to the Cause aforesaid and that reduceing the 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 County Court of Somerset with all Convenient
Speed wittness Samuel Hopkins Gent Chiefe Justice of Our Said Court the Seventeenth day of august in
the Seventeenth Year of Our Dominion &.c Ann Dom One thousand Seven hundred and thirty one
                                                                                                                                                             Now


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