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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1730-1733
Volume 842, Page 163b   View pdf image
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    March Court               1731               163

Nelson Hath known the aforesd white oak this thirty years and further Saith not
Chirs.a Glass Aged About 52 Years of age or there abouts being Sworn on the holy
Evangelist of Almighty God Saith that a Certain white oak which hath be^e^n formerly
Markt Standing about 40 yards N:E: from a branch or Gulley was allways deemed to stand in
the divisionall line between Exon and Conveniency and further Saith not   this taken before us   Jam.s Martin
                                                                                                                                              Edmd Hough


John Goddart
Commission and
affidavits
 Somerset ss    Charles absolute Lord and proprietary of the provinces of Maryland and avalon
Lord Baron of Baltemore &c  To George Dashiell Thomas Gillis Edward North and Wm Keeble
all of Somerset County Gent 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 John Goddart Guardian of George Booth of the County afd in relation
to the bounds of a tract of Land Lying in the County afd Called Chance 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 Chance (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 (if any) 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 deft (if any) touching the
truth or Remembrances of their Knowledge or any thing that may relate to the Cause afd and that Reduceing
the Severall depossitions 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
William Planner Gent One of Our Justices of our said Court the twentieth day of march in the Sixteenth Year
of Our dominion &c Ann Dom One thousand Seven hundred and thirty

       Afterwards in the Same Court to witt this twenty first day of March one thousand seven hundred and thirty one
Came here into Court Thomas Gillis and William Keeble two of the Gent.n nominated in the above Commission &
made Return of the Same with the Severall depositions following and to the Same Commission annexed
may ye 6.th 1731   Came the within Named Thomas Gillis and William Keeble and was Sworn to Execute
the within Commission according to ^an^ act of assembly in SUch Case made and provided before me
                                                                                                                                           Jno Handy

Somerset County ss
                                          The deposition of Edward Sirman taken by us the Subscribers by virtue
of a Commission to us directed bearing date 20.th day of March 1730 Impowering us to
Examine Evidences in Relation to the bounds of a tract of Land in the County
afd in Behalf of John Goddard Guardian to George Booth Called Chance taken before
us this 8.th day of may 1731                                                            Tho.s Gillis
                                                                                                       W.m Kibble

Edw.d Sirman Aged Sixty four years or their bouts Being Sworn on the holy
Evangelist of Almighty God Deposeth and Saith that about Eighteen Years agoe
                                                                                                                      he


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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1730-1733
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