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March Court
1734
(250) Company then present where they thought the mouth of the s.d Creek was, but what answer was made he does not remember, but that the s.d John Boseman himself said here is one Chop and there is an other Chop Opposite to it on the other side and two Chops makes a mouth and there ordered the Surveyor to begin his survey on a point of Marish (which he believes to be some what washed away and which the s.d M.r Boseman called the first Chop) bearing south Sixty two degrees East to the house of M.r Randall Revell and South Sixty Six degrees west to the house of M.rs Sarah Elzey which she now dwells in, and that accordingly the Surveyor afs.d began there and that he this deponant together within Henry Speir carried the Chain and that the first Course went wide of the River but the Exact Course he does not remember This deponant further declares that at the end of the first Course he heared M.r Levin Woolford tell the s.d M.r John Boseman he was well Satisfied with the Coarse hereon for it did him no damage this deponant further declareth that as to the Gum and Hickory mentioned in Mess.rs William George & John Bosemans depositions he knows nothing of them Neither did he ever see them before this day nor did he hear y.e s.d M.r John Boseman talk of them at y.e time y.e s.d Survey was but since the said Survey he has heard severy persons say there were such trees all which he declares to be Just and true to y.e best of his rememberance and knowledge & further saith not his Sworn to before us on y.e land called George + Hornor Mor an casit on a point of Marish on mark Goose Creek this 4.th of January 1734
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 Domini seventeen hundred & thirty four to examine Wittnesses to prove & perpetuate y.e bounderys of the af.d (land |
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