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March Court 1730 55 Lying his hand one s.d white oak Stump saith that att the mouth of his gully was and is a Crooked white Oak Stump about forty five pole distance from a Marked red oak y.e first bounder of a tract of Land surveyed for Christopher Nutter Called Wilton y.e read oak afd stands on y.e North side of y.e Branch a little below the horse bridge all one Nanticok River in Somrset County and the said deponent saith that in Janury 1714 was a dispute between Matt Nutter Sen.r and him about 37 Stocks of Timber that y.e said Mathew had Caused to be gott on said deponents Land Which caused him to meat at said white oak att that time then the s.d Mathew & his Brother Christopher Nutters was both in person at y.e Crooked white oake afd and in the presents and hearing of s.d deponent y.e s.d Christopher said that his father Christopher allways did say that that very white oake oak afd was the first bounder of Morris Lott taken up by Jenkin Morris Sen.r y.e Said Mathew at y.e same time said that y.e afd white oak was the first bounder of Morris Lott and the afd Mathew and Christopher his brother held Equall Shares of y.e afd Land from the death of your father to the death of Mathew Nutter peaceably without Molestation which was about sixteen years y.e said deponant saith that all his life time he Lived within a mile of that place and that he never knew nor heard of any other first bounder of y.e afd land but the afd oak and the afd deponent saith that about that time he searched y.e Records and gott the Courses ^of the aforesaid Land and when he Compared with his own he says that neither the Courses^ nor all of the pattent nor bounder could hurt s.d deponient and that if the af.d first bounder the White oak had stood any where one the southside of the Creek ^afd^ and so deliver up this as a proof that he's not interested in the proving the white oak and further saith not Somrset County Stepney paris Febry y.e 2th day 1731 Ann Nutter aged forty three being sworn on y.e holy Evangelist of almighty and Lying her hand on s.d white oake Stump that she heard her husband Mathew Nutter and his Brother Christopher say that that was the first Bounder of Morrises Lott and further saith not Somrset County Stepney Parish Febry y.e second 1731 Mary such aged sixty years sworn on the holy Evangelist of Allmighty god y.t she heard her father Janken Morris say that the white oak tump that my hand is now on was the first bounder of Morrises Lott and further saith not Thomas Humphrys James Weatherlee James Timmons appears according to his Recognizance entered unto for his appearance and Good behaviour and for as much as no persons present moved for his being Continued bound &c thereupon the Said James Timmons is discharged &c
discharged &.c Whereupon at the prayer of the aforesaid John Riggin the Said Samuel Riggin is ordered by the Court to Give new Security for his Good behaviour and appearance at June Court next &c Thereupon the aforesaid Samuel Riggin with Henry Windsor of Somerset ^County^ planter his Security both present herein Court in their proper persons acknowledged themselves to owe and Stand Justly indebted unto his Said Lordship the Lord proprietary in the Sum of ten pounds Ster Each of their Goods and Chattells Lands and tenements for the Use of his Said Lordship his his heirs and Successors ^to be made & Levied^ if default be made in the Condition hereunder written The Condition of this Recognizance is Such that if the above bounden Samuel Riggin shall personally appear at his Said Lordships County Court of Somerset to be held |
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1730-1733
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