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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1730-1733
Volume 842, Page 292b   View pdf image
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       March Court                1732                 292

in the said County the One Called Wrights Adventure Containing One hundred and five acres the Other Called Wrights Choice
Containing One hundred acres the boundaryes whereof are almost decayed humbly prays your worship to appoint
Commissioners for to Examine Evidences for the perpetuating of the Same and your petitioner 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 by the Justices here that the aforesaid William Nelson have a Commission
to Examine Evidences in relation to the bounds of the Land aforesaid and that John MccClester, George
Scott, Joseph Wailes and Charles Ballard all of Somerset County Gent be Commissioners and Execute the Same
Commission according to act of assembly in Such Case made and provided &c


Thomas Brereton
Commission & affidavitts
 Somerset ss  Charles absolute Lord and Proprietary of the Provinces of
Maryland and Avalon Lord baron of Baltemore &c  To John Leatherbury
James Strawbridge Thomas Gillis and William Turpin son of William
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 Thom.s
Brereton of the County aforesd in Relation to the bounds of two tracts of Land Vizt  High
Meddow and Hopewell Lying in the County aforessd  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 aforesd Land Called High Meddow and hopewell
You first having taken your oaths on the holy Evangelist of Allmighty God According
to Act of Assembly in such Case made and Provided and their Cause to Come before You or
any three or two of You all Such Evidence as shall be to you or any three or two of you
Nominated by the said Complainent (or Def.t if any) and that you or any three or two of You
Examine them upon their Corporall oaths to by you or any three or two of you Administered
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 afd and that Reduceing the Severall Depositions into Writing You Send
the Same together with this our Commission Under Your hand or any three or two of you
hands to us to our County Court of Somerset With all Convenient Speed Wittness Rob.t
King Gent Chief Justice of our said Court the twenty Eighty Day of November in the
Eighteenth Year of our Dominion &c Ann Dom One thousand Seven hundred and
thirty two
                      On the Backside of the foregoing Commission it was Endorsed as followeth viz.t
Somerset County ss
these are to Certifie all whom it may Concern that James Strawbridge and William Turpin son of William being
two of the four Within Named Appointed by the Court to Examine Evidences Relateing
the bounds of the Lands Within Mentioned Came before me the Subscriber one of his Lordships
Justices of the Peace for this County and Were Qualified ^according^ to Law by me
Decemb.r the Second 1732                                                                              Henry Ballard

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