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March Court
1731
179 On the back side of the foregoing Commission it was thus Endorsed Vizt the Execution of this Commission appears in Certain Schedules to the Same annexed so answere Francis Allen Wm Lane Somerset County ss Depositions of wittness taken upon a ^tract^ of Land Called Long Ridge in Somerset County the fourth Day of May Ann Dom 1730 before us Wm Lane and Francis Allen Comissioners appointed by the Worshipfull the Justices of Somerset County Court to Examine Evidences in Relation to the Bounds of a tract of Land Lying in said County of Somrset Called Long Ridge as Follows Vizt David Willson of Somerset County Gent aged twenty five years or there abouts being by us sworn upon the holy Evangelist of Almighty God Deposeth and Saith that on the thirteenth day of Aprill last past M.r Adam Heatch told him that when he bought the tract of Land Called Long Ridge to the best of his knowledge he was told that there was a bounder by the branch side and that this Deponent apprehended him to Speak of the Lower End of the Said laid Land and the said Adam Heatch at the Same time told this Deponent that he thought the Land that Edw.d Beachamp and Daniel Hull were Disputing about was daniel Hulls Land and the Said Adam Heatch being also now here present did further say thin his hearing he believed that Rob.t Catlyn had told him that there was another tree by the branch side but he Could not swear Positively to it Edmond Beachamp Sen.r aged fifty three Years or there abouts being also by us Sworn upon the holy Evangelists of Almighty God Deposeth and Saith that on or about the Sixteenth day of March last he heard M.r Adam Heatch say that Robert Catlyn told him when he was at the Marked White oake then in his View Mentioned in the Deponents Deposition this day on behalfe of Edw.d Beachamp that to the best of his knowledge the Said Robert Catlyn said there was another tree stood down by the branch at the Lower End of the said Land and also that this day in his hearing the said Adam Heatch did say that he believed that Robert Catlyn had told him that there was another tree by the branch side but he Could not swear Positively to it Edmond S Beachamp his marke the above Depositions were taken before us the Day and year Francis Allen abovesaid as Wittness our hands Wm Lane Timothy Swilliven Aged Sixty three years or there abouts being by us sworen upon the holy Evangelist of Almighty God Deposeth and Saith that about Nineteen years agoe or there abouts James Curtes the man which this Deponant bought the Land Called Long Ridge of Shewed him a white oake markt on four sides then in his Sight Standing by a path on the North Side |
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1730-1733
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