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March Court
1734
(249) with four Notches on four sides near where a Gum did stand he this deponant by order of the s.d Commissioners did take the Test of M.r Levin Denwood (he being one of y.e people called quakers) to y.e said Gum (y.e Remains of which was then lying on the Ground) the s.d Denwood did declare that for near fifty years or thereabouts before that time he heard that tree accounted a division between his brother Boseman and his brother Woolford; and that he had often heard his brother Boseman say he held no land to the Eastward of that tree and his brother Woolford say he held no land to the Westward of y.e same tree this deponant further sayeth that the land Commissioners ordered the same Hickory to be notched with one other notch on Each of the four sides this deponant further sayeth that y.e s.d Hickory stands near the midle of the Marish between Lukes point and y.e house of John Boseman & almost Opposite to y.e house of Randall Revill and this deponant further sayeth not George Dashiell Sworn to before us on the land called Mor an casit at a Hickory this fourth of January 1734
called Mor an casit the fourth day of January Annoq Domini Seventeen hundred and thirty four before William Stoughton John Elzey & William M.cClemmy by Vertue of a Commission Issued out of Somerset County Court bearing date the twenty seventh day of November Annoq Dom Seventeen hundred & thirty four to Examine wittnesses to prove & perpetuate the boundary's of the afores.d land which s.d George Horner being sworn on the holy Evangelist of Almighty God deposeth and sayeth that about twenty one years ago he heard M.r John Boseman deceased tell M.r Levin Woolford that he had waited for his Brother Roger Woolford Seven years to survey his land and that he could not get him to do it so that he was obliged to survey it himself this deponant further declareth that the s.d M.r John Boseman with M.r William Whittington Surveyor of Somerset County together with this deponant & severall other persons went (the same day he had the afores.d comunication with the s.d Woolford) to a Creek called Goose Creek and there asked the (Company |
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