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March Court
1731
163 our Commissioners to Examine Evidences on behalf of a Certain John Murray of the County aforesd in relation to the bounds of two tracts of Land the one Called Exon and the other Called Conveniency 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 Exon and Conveniency (you first haveing 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 Complainent or Deft if any and that you or any three or two of you Examine them upon the Corporall oaths to be by you or any three or two of you Administred on the Holy Evangelist of Allmighty God in the presents of the Complainent or Deft if any touching the truth or remembrances of their knowledge or anything that may relate to the Cause aforesaid and that reducing the Severall Dopositions into writing you send the same together with this our Commission under your any three or two of your hands to us to our County Court of Somerset with all Convenient Speed Wittness Sam.l Hopkins Gent Chief Justice of our said Court the Ninth day of October In the Seventeenth Year of our Dominion &c Ann Dom one thousand Seven hundred and thirty one on the back side of the foregoing Commission it was Endorsed Vizt Feb.r the 3.d 1731 Memorandum that this day Came James Martin before me the Subscriber one of his Lordships Justices for the County of Somerset and was Duly Qualifyed to Execute the within Commission Sworn before me Sa Hopkins Feb.ry the 9.th 1731 This day Came M.r Edmond Hough before me the Subscriber and was duly Qualifyed to Execute the within Commission Sworn before me Jam.s Martin Likewise to the Same Commission were annexed the following Depositions Vizt Somerset County ss By Vertue of a Commission to us Directed to Examine Evidences in Relation to the bounds of two tracts of Land Called Exon and Conveniency belonging to a Certain John Murray in the County aforesd Lying on the South side of Pocomoke river we the subscribers being Qualified have appointed a Day as the Law directs and have Mett on the aforesd tracts of Land and Caused to Come before us this 9.th day of Febery 731/2 Christopher Glass aged about 52 years of age or thereabouts being Sworn on the holy Evangelist of Allmighty God Saith that Ever Sence his remembrance that a white Oak Standing in a branch near the head thereof was always rec^k^oned to be the first bounder of a tract of Land Called Exson and that the said Christopher Glass was Showed the Said bounder by a Certain Will.m Stevenson and further Saith Nott Hugh Nelson aged about fifty years of age or thereabouts being Sworn on the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God Saith that W.m Stevenson and John Diverix hath many Times showed him the ^afd^ white oak and told him that it was the first bounder of the afd tract of Land Called Exson and that ^he^ the Said Nelson |
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1730-1733
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