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June Court
1731
87 whether it was against the Loer End of the plantation or the uper I no not butt Rob.t Jones and I had a thoughts then that we had heard that William Giles shood say that att the death of John Parrimore by the fall of a Tree that Wm Giles stood go out to the parth for a Turn of wood and comes in and said you have fallen the uper bounder and upon these thoughts or cencer was the cause we mark.t above said Tree and George Dashiell at the same time sett the compas west from said Tree and Run Down Quantico Creek through an old field W.m Vahn Lived in formerly and through the marsh to Quantico Creek the corse went then I thought the tree we Run from could Not be an upper bounder for the Nine hundred Acers of Land called gethshemaine and afterwards I went and asked William Giles now Leving on Quantico about an upper bounder and he said ^he never^ Noed of any bounder butt the first bounder of the Tract called Gethshemane and after that I asked Thomas Willson Severall times and he was a Liver on Quantico in them former Years and he told me that the nine hundred acres was never Run only the first bounder tree marked and Courses directed and that there was never any Upper tree marked at the first taking up of the Land and I asked Severall Others of the Old Livers and they told me they never Knowed of any upper tree of Coll Stevenses nine hundred acres Called as aforesaid and afterward I Chained it from the first bounded tree east three hundred and Eighty perches and found it wood not Reach only into the lower end of my plantation then I perceived that some people waited about taking a part of the plantation up I went and set up a post by the above Said Oak thinking it mont be a stoppage or hindrance from any one taking of the Clear Land up in my Said plantation and I dont know but I said that post was a bounder between two tracts untill I took up the Clear Land of the plantation my selfe and further this deponant Saith not The above named Christopher Nutter upon Request of Christopher Dashiell was by us the Subscribers Summoned to Give his Reasons for marking of the tree above mentioned and upon the holy Evangelist Gave his Oath to the truth of the above written this fourth day of November ann.o 1726 George Scott (Seal) Thomas Humphrys (Seal)
ye that we have appointed you or any three or two of you to be our commissioners to Examine Evidences on behalfe of a Certain W.m Jones of the county afd in Relation to the bounds of a peice of Land Lying in the county afd Called Chance or any adjacent land 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 in the afd Land Called Chance 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 corperill oaths to be by you or any three or two of you administred on the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God in the presents of the complainent or Def.t if any Touching the truth or Remembrances of their knowledge or any thing that may Relate to the cause afd and that Reducing the Severall deposition into writing you send the same together with this our commission under your or any three or (two) |
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1730-1733
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