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March Court
1730
60 deceased according as the Law directs and do Judge the dwelling plantation Called Ceader Hall on which Archibald Greer as a Tenant now Lives with all its Appurtinances to be of the yearly Value of a Thousand pence and the Other Plantation cleared and Built on by Thomas Baker att his own Proper Cost and Charges on which his widow now Lives with all its appurtinances to be of the Yearly Value of five Hundred pence Given Undr our hands this 18 Day of December Ann.o Dom.r 1730 Jn.o Brittingham Testis William Planner Thom.s Layfield
and appear upon a Certain tract of Land lying and being in this County near the Indian River being now the property of a Certain William Pepper son of William Pepper Late of this County deceased being now an Orphan under the Guardian Ship and Care of Mr William Burton and in pursuance of an Act of assembly of this province we the abovesaid Richard Hickman and George Howard did Enter on the Above s.d Land with ye above s.d Justice of the Peace and Gardian in order to view and Inspect into the Improvement and Condition thereof as ye Law Directs in such Case haveing first Taken out Oaths before the above said Justice of the peace well and truly so to doe and after due Inspection Made we find ye premices to be as followeth on which Land we find a Small Quantity of Cultivated or Cleared Ground and that in two Severall places on one there is two houses the one of the Dementions of thirty five feet in Lenth and Eighteen in Breadth the other tenn feet Square both Very old and Much Decayed not sufficient to keep out raine the biger house is Planked above and below and the Loer room sealed but all very much Decayed and Little worth and on ye other place of Cultivatted Lands we find a small parcell of apple trees containing thirty six trees very small for the Most part and not much worth at present and as for Inclosures we find five hundred and thirty panells of fence but all Very Old and Decayed and not sufficient to keep or Defend what is Under tillage within the same and as for Clearing of Ground or cuting of timber upon the above s.d Land we the above said viewers do not allow or permit the above said Gardin to Clear more than a small cornfield not to cutt any More timber then what Necessarily may repare the houses and fencing and Considering the primeses above Mentioned we do not think that the annuall vallue of the above said Plantation can be worth more than ten Shillings p Annum and this we return under our hands and seals as the Just and true Estimate of the above said plantation this Ninth day of Febry 1730/1 Richard Hickman (S) George Howard (S) A Just and true Information of the Repair and value of the plantation of W.m Pepper according to the knowledge and Judgment of us the subscribers Febry the 9.th day 1730/1 being the day on which we took account of the said Plantation and upon the same we find about 520 panells of fence but appears to be old and Lettle worth and about 36 apple trees but the Greatest part of them but small and appears to us to be of no Great vallue at present and also 2 houses the one about 25 feet in Length and about 18 in Breadth the other about 10 feet Square and both very much out of repaire the biger one which is the dwelling house being Planked above and Below and the Loer Roome sealed with Plank after a very Indefferant manner and both the houses together going very fast to decay and appeared to us to be in a great measure in sufficient to keep out the Rain |
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1730-1733
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