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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1730-1733
Volume 842, Page 16   View pdf image
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August Court        1730                 16

    Pleasant a negro Girle of Mr John Stewart is adjudged by the Court to the age of tenn Years &c

    Judah a negro boy of Mr John Stewart is adjudged by the Court to the age of Eight Years &c

    Dick a negro Boy of John Brittingham Jun.r is adjudged by the Court to the age of Nine Years &c


The Reverend Alexander Adams

  Commission and affidavitts
 Somerset ss    Charles absolute Lord and proprietary of the provinces of Maryland
and Avalon Lord Baron of Baltemore &c  To Levin Gale Thomas Gillis Benjamin
Cottman and Peter Sirman all of Somerset County Gentlemen Greeting  Know Ye that
    we have appointed you or any three or two of you to be Our Commissioners to Examine evidences on behalfe of
    a Certain Alexander Adams of the County aforesaid Gent.m in relation ^to the^ bounds of part of a tract of Land Lying
    in the County aforesaid Called Smiths adventure  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 afd Land Called Smiths
    Adventure [you first having taken your Oath 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 Complanant (or defendant if any) and that
    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 presence of the said Complainant (or defend.t if any) touching the truth or
    Remembrances of their Knowledge or any thing 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.m
    Cheife Justices of Our Said Court the Eighteenth day of March in the fourteenth Year of Our Dominion &c

       On the Back side of the foregoeing Commission it was thus Endorsed   viz.t

                      The execution of this Commission appears by the Severall depositions hereunto annexed

somerset ss         Depositions of Wittnesses taken upon a tract of Land Called Smiths Adventure in Sumerset County
upon the twelfth day of June anno Dom One thousand seven hundred and twenty Nine before us Thomas Gillis and Peter
Sirman in pursuance of a Commission from Somerset County Court bearing date the eighteenth day of march 1723
directed unto Levin Gale Benj.a Cottman and us the said Thomas Gillis and Peter Sirman we the said Thomas Gillis
and Peter Sirman having first duly taken the Oath and Given the Notice by the act of assembly in such Case
made directed

                         Isaac Noble of Somerset County planter aged about forty Nine Years being Sworn upon the
holy Evangelist of Almighty God deposeth and Saith

                            That William Breretons fence in the Years Seventeen hundred and Eighteen and seventeen
hundred and ninteen which parsed his plantation that he dwelt upon from John Waltoms which the deponant verily
believes was the fence mentioned and intended in a deed made to the reverend M.r Alexander Adams by the said W.m
Brereton as the deponant hath been Informed dated on or about the Sixth day of March anno Dom One thousand
seven hundred and 18/19 begun at the root of A Stooping Ceeder (close by the Eastermost side of passandick Creek)
which is about twelve yards to the north westward of a hicory marked with twelve Notches and that the said
fence run from thence into the woods a little to the northward of a line of trees marked with four Notches by the
deponant and John Thompson the said deponant further deposeth and Saith that he hath forty five Years by
past been a near Neighbour to the afd William Brereton and well acquainted with the said Breretons plantation
the said deponant further deposeth and Saith that the Line of trees before herein Mentioned is marked as near to where
William Breretons fence stood as the deponant and the aforesaid Thompson could marke it and keep to the Eastward
of it and further saith not   Sworn to before us      Thomas Gillis & Peter Sirman
                                                                                                                                                    Jno


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