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1731 162 deponant told Coll Woollford it Looked more proper to be hier up the Glade Cap.t John Jones being present he Said he thought so too John Bozman P Plft George Bozman Jun.r aged about thirty five Years being Sworn he Saith that Capt John Jones told him that Mr James Woollford was walking with him and Severall Others and James Woollford told him the Said Jones that a pine Standing on a bank by the westermost Side of a marsh was the division between his brother Roger and Levin Woollford and John Bozman looked and told him that the tother Standing in the head of the Glad was more like to be the bounder than that on the bank and Capt Jones said that he thought so too and further Saith not Geo: Bozman Jun.r
a Small piney hammock was a bounder of Old Roger Woollfords Land of what pattent this deponant knew not but he heard him talk Severall times since of that bounder (ye Gutt near where this bounder is is in John Millers pasture) 7.ber 16.th 1731 Thomas Laws aged about forty two Years being sworn Saith that John Winson Sen.r about Seven or Eight Years ago told him that formerly he Saw a bounder of Land Cutt down & that he (the Said Windon) told Roger Woollford dec.d that there was a bounder Cutt down and M.r Woolford seemed to be angry and told him it was a bounder of his Land the Said Bounder Stood in the marsh near the thorowfare a little distance from a hammock of pines near the mouth of a gutt Called Georges Gutt about two hundred yards from a landing Called the Upper Landing in the thorowfare and that the Said pine was Reckoned by the neighbours to be the Out side bounder of Woollfords Land and further Saith not Thomas Laws 7.br ye 17 1731 John Winsor aged ninty one Years the twenty Ninth day of this Instant deposeth and Saith that about forty five Years ago he Lived on the Land now Called Georges and One night to the best of his knowledge there was a marked pine cut down that Stood by a Small Gutt at which he was Concerned and Some time after he told Old Mr Woollford of it and he Said adds bud being a Common word with him and Seemed to be angry and said that was his marked tree and the Last bounder of the Land that Roger Shirly Lived on and this deponant well Remembers it a marked tree four notches on aside standing near Georges Gutt on that Side where Roger Shirly Lived and further saith not John Winson P Plft 7.br ye 21.st 1731 John Miller aged about fifty Seven Years or thereabout being Sworn and Saith at manokin that for about thirty Years past he was well acquainted with the plantation of Roger Woollford ye Elder dec.d and that he always heard the Gutt that divides the Land of said Woollford and Mr Alexander Brown that Runs up by John Woollfords house Called the Great pasture Gutt and that he Carried up a beefe in a Canew and Oysters Severall times to |
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1730-1733
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