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November Court
1734
217 Under Subscriber to Examine Evidences in order to Settle the Bounders of a Certain tract of Land Called Turners Hall we therefore being Quallified according to an act of an a Assembly in that case made and provided have met on the Land Calld Turners hall this This twelfe day of October 1734 and their and then did Cause all such Evidences as was to us Nominated by the Complainant Thomas Bowden to appear and they being all sworne on the holy Evangelist of Almighty God declares in manner and form as followeth David Hudson aged about fifty five or there abouts being first sworn on the holy Evangelist of almighty God declares that about twenty one year agoe as he was going along the westermost side of back Creek in Company with Either Nath.ll Rackliffe or Wrixham White or Jn.o Miller Sen.r but which of the three he is not possitive and as they were a going one of the men Mentioned afores.d Said their stands a bounder and he says he Look towards back Creek and by the Creek a distance of the Creek he saw a marked red Oak marked with the Survey^ers^ mark and the top leaned towards the Creek a little to the westard of the head of Back Creek and furder he says that the path where people now rides through has been Counted the head of back Creek this twenty two or three year which he has known the place and further Says not John Miller aged about thirty nine years being sworn on the holy Evangelist of almighty God declares as followeth That he has known the abovesaid way over the head of back Creek near this thirty years and that he always understood by the oldest Standars he ever talked with that the path they now ride through was reckoned to be the head of back Creek and further he declares that he has heard his father say severall times that the Ridge of Land between back Creek and Rutty branch was the land that Smock of Mackllure that then did belong to W.m Read but he says he never saw any Corner tree nor never heard his father say where it stood & further says nott John Lench Sen.r aged about Sixty being sworne on the holy Evangelist of Almighty God declareth as followeth that he has known the place this Nineteen years and that he never new knew any other place to be called the head of back Creek but where the path is where they now ride through and further says not &a John Tull Sen.r aged about fifty three years being sworn on the holy Evangelist of almighty god declares as followeth that he heard Wrixham White say that the tree that lay in the head of back Creek he though was Reeds Corner Tree and that the place where the path goes through back Creek has been counted the head of Back Creek this Twenty Six years to his knowledge and further says not &a Race Clark aged about forty three years being sworn on the holy Evangellist of almighty god declares as followeth that he hath known the place this thirty years and that the path that goes through Back Creek is always being termed the head of Back Creek and further says not &a Joseph Miller aged ^about^ thirty four years being sworn on the holy Evangelist of allmighty god declares as followeth that he has known the place this Twenty ^five^ years and that he never knew any other place to be Called the head of back Creek but where the path now goes through and further says not Now wee the subscribers for the better rembrance of the head of Back Creek has marked two Small trees or Saplins one a Red Oak the other a white Oak with twelve Notches three of a side they standing about thirty paces west from the head of back Creek given under our hands and Seals the John Holland (seal) day and year above written Thomas Perkins (seal) |
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1733-1735
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