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March Court
1731
164 Oath on the holy Evangelist of Almighty God to Execute the within Commission according to the directions of the act of assembly in that Case made and provided according to the best of their knowledge Sworn to before me Will.m Stoughton Somerset County ss Depositions of Wittnesses taken at the plantation of Joy Hobbs where Thomas Hobbs now Lives at Moneigh in the County afd the 26.th day of June ann Dom 1731 by Vertue of a Commission to us Directed out of his Lordship Court of Somerset County bearing date the 20.th day of November 1730 for Examining Evidences for the perputieating the Memory of the bounds of that Land Called Carnies Chance Vizt John Macragh of Somerset County aged about forty three Years being Sworn on the holy Evangelist of Almighty God says that about fifteen or sixteen Years agoe Rich.d Cary and this Deponant was in the Woods together and said Cary told him that a great Pine Standing by a Swamp A distance above Thomas Hobbs plantation was the first bounder of a peice of Land Called Carnies Chance and further Saith not John Mccragh Henry Newman aged about thirty Years being sworn Saith that about ten Years ago he was a hogg hunting with Richard Cary and Coming to a Swamp Side he Saw a great pine marked and the aforesaid Cary told this deponant that pine was a Corner tree of a peice of Land belonging to Joy Hobbs but he did not tell the name of the Land and further Saith not Henry Newman NB it was the Same tree that John Macragh shewed us & Swore to taken the day & year aforesaid Geo Dasheill Henry Ballard
Evidences on behalf of a certain W.m Swellivant Guardian of Benj.a Mitchell of the County afd in Relation to the bounds of a tract of Land Lying in the County aforesaid Called Toneys Vineyard Wee therefore Require you or any three or two of you at Somerset time and place as to you or any three or two of you shall Seem Convenient you meet on the aforesd Land Called Toneys Vineyards (you first having taken you oaths on the holy Evangelist of Allmighty God According 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 hands or any three or two of your hands to us to Our County Court of Somerset with all Convenient Speed |
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1730-1733
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