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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1730-1733
Volume 842, Page 294   View pdf image
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March Court                1732                            294

or any three or two of your hands to us to Our County Court of Somerset with all Convenient Speed Wittness Robert King
Gent Chiefe Justice of Our Said Court the twenty Eighth day of November in the Eighteenth Year of our dominion
&c Anno Dom One thousand Seven hundred and thirty two

                      On the Backside of the Foregoing Commission it was Endorsed and Likewise to the Same
Commission it was annexed April the 23.d 1733 then Came James Martin and Edward Rownd before
me the Subscriber and was qualified according to the directions of the act of assembly duely to
execute the within Commission Sworn before me            Will Lane

    Aprill the 23.d 1733   Then Came William Lane before me the Subscriber and was qualified according
to the directions of the act of assembly duely to Execute the within Commission sworn before me Jams Martin

          Somerset County ss   By Vertue of a Commission to us directed from the Worshipfull the Justices
of the County aforesaid to Examine Witnesses in relation to the bounds of a tract of Land Called Barstable
have taken the following deposition vizt

                   The deposition of John Purnall Sen.r of Somerset County aforesaid Gent aged Sixty
Years or thereabouts being by us Sworn upon the holy Evangelist of Almighty God deposeth and
Saith that a dead Read Oake now in his sight standing by the Side of a small Savanah near the
head of Mattapony Creek is one of the bounders of a tract of Land formerly Surveyed for Daniel
Selby Called Bantry the bounds of which was some time since assertained by Commissioners appointed
by act of assembly and this deponant further saith that he verily's believes the aforesd
tree to be the first bounder of the afd Land Called Barstable becaus the three first Courses from
the afd tree are the Same with the western bounds of the afd Land Called Bantrey as will appear
by the deed of the afd Land Called Barstable and further saith not

             The above deposition was taken by us the Subscribers being first duly qualified according
to Law this 23d of aprill Anno Dom 1733                                            Willm Lane
                                                                                                          Edw Rownd
                                                                                                          Jam.s Martin


Catherine Jones
    pet.n
 Somerset County ss    To the worshipfull his Lordships Justices of the peace in
Court now Sitting the humble petition of Catherine Jones most humbly sheweth
that your petitioner hath a negro woman Called Moll very aged and past her Labour
          most humbly prays your worships will take it into Consideration and allow her tax free and your
petitioner as in duty bound shall ever pray

            The petition aforesaid being Read and head and fully understood and mature deliberation thereupon
had    wherefore it is Considered that the aforesaid Catherine Jones be for the future discharged from
paying of taxes for the afd Negro woman Called Moll as by the petition aforesaid is praid &c


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