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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1730-1733
Volume 842, Page 88b   View pdf image
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June Court                    1731                 88

the Magraw the Elder who pointed his hand towards said Point and said on
that point stood M.r Whitty uppermost bounder of Colebrook being a white oak from
that he the said Magraw had markt it with his one hands near which place then
is this day a mulbry post put up markt with four Notches on Each side and further
this Deponant saith not      Taken before us this 15.th day of may Ann 1731   Rob.t King
                                                                                                                   Tho.s Brown

Robert Laws Aged fifty years or there abouts Deposeth on the holy Evangelist of
Allmighty God that he this deponant was on a Jury to Enquire into the bounds of
a tract or Pcell of Land called Colebrook about twenty four or five years since as
Near as he can Remember at which time George Bets now Deceast was product
as an Evidence to prove the uppermost bounder of the afd Land called Colebrook
who was sworn and also W.m Waller sence decast with George Phebus who is now
here present the aforenamed Betts Declared that as he was goeing or passing
along the Road opposet to a point where he this deponant now stands near to the
Mouth of a glade a Little down goose creek from W.m Jones house where Geo.r Phebus
deposeth that he had seen a markt white oak that he had been showd as the upermost
bounder of Colebrook Owen Magraw the Elder being in company
with the afd Bets the said Magraw told him that Down on that point deserting
his hand toward the place above discribed stood the upper most bounder of
colebrook or M.r Whitty Land for that he the said Owen Magraw had marked
the said bounder with his own hands that William Waller above Mentioned
Declared that Richard Whitty in his Life time had often acknowledged the place
and tree above Mentioned as his uppermost bounder of Colebrook and further
saith not Taken before us the 7.th day of may Ann Dom 1731            Rob.t King
                                                                                                           Tho.s Brown
                                                                                                           Tho.s Gillis

       George Phebus aged Seventy Years or thereabouts deposeth on the Holy Evangelist of almighty God that
he has seen a white Oake tree marked as a bounder that is now Gone Standing on a point of high Land a little below
a Glad that Issues out of Goose creek a small Distance from W.m Jones house down
the creek near to ^a^ dead Red oake Saplin which this Deponant has been severall
times at with his master Whitty and once with Coll David Brown in company
and that the tree and place aforesaid that this Deponant is now at and from whence
he this deponant has been the line of COlebrook Run two or three times was
deem'd and Reputed as the Uppermost bounder of the afd Tract called colebrook
formerly in the Possession of Richard Whitty deceast   George Bazeman the Elder
the first of that name that seated on Monken River was the first pson that
shewed this deponant the above markt white oak and that his Master afd
always acknowledged it was his Uppermost bounder of Colebrook afd and
that this Deponant had Information to the Same Effect of what is above
Mentioned Relateing to the white oak Tree afd from many other psons and
further saith not   Take before us the Subscribers this 7 day of may Ann.o
D.o 1731                                                                              Rob.t King
                                                                                            Tho.s Brown
                                                                                            Tho.s Gillisse


 
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