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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1730-1733
Volume 842, Page 256b   View pdf image
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        Nov.r Co.t 1732                            256

    the widdow Sarah Haman now lives has been Lately run out and as your petitioner has been Informed
by Commissioners Impowered bu this Court who tho they had noe proofe for bounders Yet they so run the
courses as to Include the houses of your petitioners plantation and I having since found evidences to prove
the bounders of both tracts of Land I humbly pray your worships to appoint Commissioners to ascertain
the bounders of both tracts to remove the present distractions of uncertainties  and to prevent further
disorders and Your petitioner as in duty bound shall ever pray            Thomas Brereton

          The petition aforesaid being read and heard and fully understood and mature deliberation thereupon
had,  wherefore it is Considered that a Commission Issue to the aforesaid Thomas Brereton as by the afd
petition aforesaid is praid and that John Leatherbury, James Strawbridge, Thomas Gillis and William
Turpin (son of William) all of Somerset County Gentleman be Commissioners and Execute the Same Commission
according to act of assembly in such Case made and provided &c


John Reed Tipquin
          Pet.n
     To the Worshipfull Justices of Somerset County in Court now Sitting the humble
petition of John Reed most Humbly sheweth    that your petitioner being possessed of
    part of tract of Land lying on Nanticoke river in the County Called Hogg Quarter whose boundaries depend
on an Other tract of Land Called Common Garden humbly pray your worships to appoint Commissioners to
Examine evidences in relation to the boundaries of the said Hogg Quarter and Common Garden to perpetuate the
the Same and as in duty bound shall ever pray

             The petition aforesaid being read and heard and fully understood and mature deliberation thereupon
had   Wherefore it is Considered that a Commission Issue to the aforesaid John Reed as by the petition afd
is praid;   and that James Dashiell, John Gale, Robert Collier and William Dashiell all of Somerset County
Gentell to be Commissioners and Execute the Same Commission according to act of assembly in such Case made and
provided &c

Samuel Dorman of Somerset County planter present here in Court agrees with the Same Court to keep
Ferry over Pocomoke ^river^ at the plantation of William Stevens for the Ensuing Year and find a boat ^and^ give
Good attendance thereto for the transport of horse and man and Likewise keep that part of the Causway
in Good repair as formerly for the Consideration of three thousand pounds of tobacco   thereupon the
said Samuel Dorman is ordered to give Security to Comply with the Covenants afd

       Whereupon the said Samuel Dorman with William Turpin of Somerset County Gent his security both
present here in Court in their proper persons and acknowledged themselves to Owe and Stand Justly Indebted
unto his Lordship the right honrble the Lord proprietary of the province of Maryland in twenty pounds
Sterling Joyntly and Severally of their Goods and Chattells Lands and tenements to be made and Levied
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