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March Court 1730
59 where this Deponant now stands and the said tree hath ben Since Remarked by the by ye Land commissioners with five Notches on four side and further sayeth not taken Before us this 14.th day of Janry 1730/1 John Coldwell Thom.s Gilliss The Depsition of Thomas Bruerton aged about forty nine years Being Sworn on the Holy Evangelist of Allmighty God Deposeth and Sayeth that about thirty years ago he was shewed by old John Persons a Pignut Hickrey Being a marked tree by a Small Branch side near or about where a Seder Post now stands where this Deponant now is and the s.d John Persons told this deponant that the said marked Hickrey was a bounder of Thom.s Standbridges Land now in the Possession of W.m Allexander the neck being commonly called Pegeys neck and this deponant forder sayeth that the said John Persons hath several times sheweth this Deponant a marked white oak on the South side of Gilleys mill branch and above the said mill where this Deponant now stands and the said John Persons Told this Deponant that the said White Oake was a bounder of Thom.s Standbridges Land now in the Possession of William Allexander and farder sayeth not taken before us this 14.th day of Janry 1730/1 John Caldwell Thom.s Gillis
on behalfe of a Certain Samuel Riggin of the County aforesaid in relation to the bounds of part of a tract of Land Lying in ye County aforesaid called Golden Lyon 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 Shal Seem Convenient you meet on the aforesaid Land Called Golden Lyon (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 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 and y.t 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 Allmighty 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 afd and that reduceing the severall dopositions 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 W.m Planner Gent one of our Justices of our said Co.t ye twenty fourth day of Novem.r In the Sixteenth year of our Dominion &.c Ann.o Dom one thousand seven hundred and thirty On the Backside of the foregoeing commission it was Endorsed and Likewise to the same commission it was annexed as followeth viz.t W.m Holland and John Outten and James Nairne the within mentioned commission.rs came before me and give oath on the holy Evangelist According to Law Janry the 12.th day W.m Planner The Execution of the within commission appears by the depositions hereunto annexed as wittness our hands Jam.s Nairne W.m Holland John Outton Febry ye 16.th 1730 M.rs Mary Riggin aged eighty six came before us the subscribers and swore on the holy Evangelist of the allmighty God being duely Examined said that the first bounder |
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1730-1733
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