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June Court
1732
193 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 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 Complainent (or Def.t if any) touching the truth or remembrances of their knowledge or any thing that may relate to the Cause aforesd and that reduceing the Severall Depositions into Writing you Send the Same together with this our Commission under your or any three or two of you 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 twenty fifth day of Aprill in the fourteenth Year of our Dominion &c Ann Dom one thousand Seven hundred and twenty Nine On the back side of the fore going Comission it was Endorsed Vizt Edward Round and James Rounds Qualified to Execute the Within Commission before us this 9.th of Janry 1729 W.m Fasitt Likewise to the Same Commission were annexed the following Depositions viz In Obedience to a preceipt directed to John Donelson Edward and James Round and Ephraim Heather to Examine Evidence in relation to the bounds of a tract of Land Called Mount Pleasent in Somerset County all Hollis Parrish and and in the possession of a Certain John Evans of the Said parrish Comp.t accordingly we the Subscribers having given due Notice met on the aforesaid Land the Sixty day of May Ann Dom one thousand Seven hundred and thirty two where Came William Waltom Sen.r an Evidence for the Compt Nicholas Warren Deft Aged about fifty four and being Sworn on the holy Evangelist of Almighty God Saith that on a Ridge of Land about 100 yds to the Eastward of the County Road there is not a Lieing down hicory almost Rotten and Seemingly markt with a Surveyr's mark and the Said Depont Saith that Coll Franklyn decesed told him that the Said Hickory was the first Bounder of that Land that he bought of Nath. Whale Called as abovesd Also this Deponant saith that Cap.t Fasitt Riding a Long the road with him talking of the said Land the Said Depon.t told him that there was two hicorys well Says the Said Fasitt the upermost or Nothermost of the two is my bounder and further Saith Not Also Thomas Collins Son of Thomas an Evidence for the Comp.t aged about thirty three yrs and being Sworn on the holy Evangelist of Almighty God Saith that he Coming with his father from Old John Evans his father told him Coming home that on their Left hand there stood a hicory and that it was a Corner tree between Cap.t Fasitt and the Said John Evans and the Said Depon.t Saith that his father told him that Coll Whittington |
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