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March
Court 1730
54 it was thus endorsed vizt Ignoramus Charles Rocklife foreman whereupon the Said Rebecca Blackston present herein Court is discharged from her Recognizance entered into for her appearance At this Court to answer &c Likewise the Said Rebecca Blockston is ordered to Give Security to pay the Severall Officers their fees due by occasion of the premisses afd thereupon a Certain John Owens of Somerset County planter present herein Court in his proper person undertakes for to pay the Severall Officers their fees due by Occasion of the premisses aforesaid if the Said Rebecca Blockston doth not pay the Same &c John Shehon, Susannah Joyce and Sarah Lingoe being bound by Recognizance for their appearance at this Court to Give Evidence against the aforesaid Rebecca Blockston & are discharged by the Court therefrom
Evidences on behalf of a Certain John Huett Nutter of the County af.d in Relation to the bounds of two tracts of Land Lying in the County aforesaid one Called Shiles Choice the Bounds thereof depends upon a tract of Land Called Morison Lott 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 afd Lands Called Shiles Choyce and Morrises Lott 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 Complainant or Def.t if any and that you or any three or two of you Examine them upon their Corporall Oaths to be by or any three or two of you Administred on the holy Evangelist of almighty god in the presents of the Complainant (or deft if any) touching the truth or remembrances of their knowledge or any thing that may relate to the Cause af.d and that reduceing the Severall depositions unto 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 William Planner Gent.m one of our Justices of our s.d Court y.e twenty fourth day of Novem.r in the Sixtenth Yeare of Our Dominion &.c Anno Dom One thousand seven hundred and thirty One the backside of the foregoing Commission it was Endorsed and Likewise to the same Commission it was Annexed as followeth viz.t Decem.r the 17.th 1730 Came Before me John Handy one of his L.dShips Justices of the peace for somrset the within Mentioned James Watherly and Thomas Humphris and was Sworn on the Holy Evangelist of allmighty god to Execute the within Commission According to an Act of Assembly In such Case made and provided Jn.o Candy Maryland Somerset County ss Feberwary y.e 2.d day 1731 These are to Certify y.t we the Subscribers by vertue of his L.dships Commission to us directed from his L.dships Justices of Said County to Examine Evidences to the bounders of a tract of Land called Shilles Choice the bounds thereof depends upon a tract of Land Called Morrises Lott which said tract of Land is in the possesion of John Huett Nutter of Said County att whose Prayer and Commission Isued bearing date y.e twenty fourth of Novemb.r seventeen hundred and thirty According to Act of Assembly we sett up our Notifications under our hands at Stepney Parish Church and other bublick places about thirty days before we mett on said Land and appointed by said Notifications to meet on s.d land the second day of Febury 1731 Accordingly meet on said day and having sommonsed W.m Piper, Ann Nutter and mary such for Evidences and no Contending party appearing or to appear that we heard of we did proceed and being brought by y.e above Evidences to a white oack Stump standing one the south side of Morumsco Creek Creek one a point by a Gulley a little below the horse bridge by y.r depositions hereunto Anexed Somerset County Stepney Parish febury y.e s.d 2 day 1731 W.m Piper aged forty years being sworn on the holy Evangelist of Allmighty God & Lying |
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