| Volume 842, Page 41b View pdf image |
 |
|
|
 |
|
|
November Court 1730
41 In Obedience to a precept hereunto Annexed we James Martin and James Rownd having Given out Notice met the thirtieth day of September on that tract of Land Called fairfield but no Complainant appearing nor Def.t we met the first day of october following the Complainent being prsent no Def.t Came thomas Purnall aged about thirty five years &.c being sworn saith that at his Fathers death bed the deponant Enquired of his Father Concerning the Bounds of Hiccory Neck he Acknowledged to him that he had been very Careless in telling his Children the bounds of his Land but Say his Father do you know where the horse dunn was in the mire he answered very well then Says right against where dunn was Mir'd Stood the bounder of Hickory neck begunn and that to the best of this deponants remembrance his father told him it was also ye first bounder of the Other fairfield upon which Ridge as aforesaid now Stands a Ceader post at or near the place above mentioned standing about North thirty Six paces or Strides from a Small Gutt which said Gutt is the division of the two necks viz.t Hickory Neck and the neck where Capt Thomas Purnall formerly Lived and further Saith not as wittness our hands ye day & year aforesaid Jam.s Martin Jams Rownd
Behalfe of a Certain W.m Freeman of the County af.d in Relation to the Bounds of tract of Land Lying in the County af.d Called Freemans Discover we there 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 met on the af.d Land Called Freemans Discover (you first having taken Your Oaths on the holy Evangelist of Almighty God 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 Complainent or Def.t if any and that you or any three or two of 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 presence o the Complainent or Deft if any and that you or any three or two of 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 presence of the Complainent or Deft if any touching the truth or remembrance of their knowledge or any thing that may relate to the Cause af.d 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 your hands to us to Our County Court of Somrset With all Convenient Speed Wittness Sam.ll Hopkins Gent.m Chiefe Justices of Our Said Court the 22.th day of August in the 16.th Year of our Dominion &.c Ann.o Dom 1730 to the foregoeing Commission it was Annexed viz.t Sumerset County ss Depositions of Wittnesses Taken upon the Land Called Freemans Discovery in Somrset County the 28.th Day of Septemb.r 1730 before us the Subscribers Commission.rs Appointed by the Worshipfull the Justices of Somrset County Co.t to Examine Wittnesses Conserning the Bounds of the af.d Land as follow.s viz John Townsend Sen.r of Somerset County Planter Aged Sixty Eight years or there about being ^by^ his Sworn upon ye holy Evangelist of Almighty God Deposeth and Saith that he was one of the Chaine Carryers when the above Land was Laid out and that the white oake now in his view he then saw Marked for one of the bounders of the af.d Land Call.d Freemans Discovery to the best of his knowledge being a Small Tree Standing on the East most side of the Main branch of Dividing Creek within about five or six yardes of the af.d Main branch and Near the Mouth of a Small branch Issuing out of the af.d Main Branch and further Saith not his John T Townsend mark Edm.d Dickerson of Somerset County Planter Aged Sixty four years or there abouts being by us Sworn upon the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God Deposeth and Saith that about Twenty Eight Years ago being alone in the Woods he saw a Marked white oake on the Eastermost Side of the Main Branch of Dividing Creek and when he went home one John Robeson who had formerly Lived with Joseph Freeman the then owener of the af.d Land was at his House and he told the af.d Robison that he had Seen a White Oake marked with Sixten Notches Near the Mouth of holly Branch and the af.d Robeson Told him that it was the Bounder of Joseph Freemans Land for freemans Land Replyed the Said Robeson does Being Near |
| |||
|
| ||||
|
| ||||
Please view image to verify text. To report an error, please contact us.
Somerset County Judicial Records, 1730-1733
| Volume 842, Page 41b View pdf image |
|
Tell Us What You Think About the Maryland State Archives Website!
|
An Archives of Maryland electronic publication.
For information contact
mdlegal@mdarchives.state.md.us.
Maryland State Archives