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March Court
1731
160 the Subscriber one of the Lord proprietary's Justices of the peace for the County of Somerset Capt George Dashiel and Thomas Gillis and made Oath on the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God to execute the within Commission according to the directions of the act of assembly of this province in that Case made and provided according to the best of their Skill and knowledge Sworne to before me Will.m Stoughton Likewise to the Same Commission were annexed the following depositions vizt Somerset County ss Depositions of Wittnesses taken at the plantation of M.r John Leatherbury at wickacomoco Creek in the County aforesaid the ninth day of may anno Dom 1731 by virtue of a Commission to us directed out of his Lordships Court for Somerset County bearing date the 20th day of march 1729 for the examining Evidences for perpetuating the bounds of a tract of Land Called Timson vizt Isaac Noble of Somerset County aged about fifty Years being Sworn on the holy Evangelist of Almighty God Carried us up to the head of a branch a little distance from the Same near where the Road Leads over ye Same branch and he Said that his father near forty Years agoe told him that a red Oak Standing near the road that Leads down Wickacomoco Creek which blew down thirty Six Years agoe was a line tree that divided this deponants father and Richard Kimble but being asked whether ^he^ ever heard Kimbold acknowledge the Same he answered in the Negative at which place there was a dogwood marked by order of Mr Leatherbury with three Notches on two Sides about forty foot to the Southward of the Road which was marked in Our presents John Leatherbury plft; W.m Cottman deft George Goddart of Somerset Coty deft in Relation to the bounds of the Land aforesaid being the Second bounder of tanten denn who saith that he was told by his father (George Goddart ye Elder) about thirty years ago that a white oak standing in Richard Kimbolds pasture to the East Side of Spring branch was the Second bounder of tanten denn and the first bounder of the Land called Timson in Indian and that he either Carried the Chain or marked the tree at the Runing of the Line and further Saith not it being the tree that he proved before the Land Commissioners from which there is a Line of trees marked with five Notches on two Sides which bounder was described at ye Request of ye deft the Said Goddart was asked whether his father was at the Original Survey or at any Resurvey he answered he did not know taken before us George Dashiell Thomas Gillis
of a Certain Matha and Mary Woolfords of the County aforesd in relation to the bounds of a percell of Land Lying in the County aforesd Called Happy addition and Luns Emprovment 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 aforesd Land Called Happy adition and Luns Emprovement you first having taken your oaths on the holy |
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1730-1733
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