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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1735-1737
Volume 851, Page 212b   View pdf image
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    June Court                                1736               212

Robert Harris Commission
& Affidavitts
 Somerset ss.t  Charles absolute Lord and Proprietary of the provinces of Maryland
and avalon Lord Baron of Baltemore &.c  To George Dashiell Henry Ballard
Isaac Handy and Thomas Collier all of Somerset County Gen.t  Greeting know ye that wee have appointed
you or any three or two of you to be our Commissioners to Examine evidences on behalf of orphans of
John Persons who are under the care of Robert Harris of the County af.d  in relation to the Bounds of
the tracts or parcells of land to witt second choice bears quarter and good luck  Wee 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 on the af.d Land called second choice bears quarter and Good Luck (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 their 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 corporall 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 Rememberance of their knowledge
or any thing  that may relate to the cause af.d and that reduceing the severall depositions
into writing you send the same together with this our commission under your or any three
or two of your hands and seals to us to our County Court of Somerset with all Convenient speed Wittness
John Smith Gent one of our Justices of our said Court the twenty first day of March Anno Dom
1734               Now here at this day to witt the fifteenth day of June anno Dom One thousand seven
hundred and thirty ^six^ before the Justices of his Lordships County Court of Somerset now here held at dividing
Creek in the Same County Came George Dashiell and Henry Ballard two of the Gent mentioned in the above
Commission and made return of the Following depositions to the above Commission annexed viz.t

Somerset County ss.t  The depositions of Wittnesses taken on three tracts of Land viz.t part of Second
Choice Bear quarter and Good Luck now in the possession of Robert Harris of the said County for perpetuating
the Bounds of the said Lands which are as Followeth viz.t   the reverend ^Mr^ Alexander Adams
aged about fifty Six years being Sworn on the holy Evangelist of almighty God saith that some
time agoe as he things on the twenty ninth day of Janry he was with William Kibble and
severall others at a red Oake near the path and the said Kibble told him that he marked
the said Oak or saw it marked as the first Bounder or a bounder of the Land good Luck and further
saith not which Oake stands by a path that Leads from persons as old plantation to Mr Gillises
to the northward of a small Branch near the said Plantation

Richard Stevens aged Forty Seven years sworn as afd and saith that about 15 years agoe he
heard Stephen Baily say that a red Oak which stood by the path side was a Corner tree of
a peice of Land that his house stood on & further saith not which was the same tree Mr Adams described
                                                                                                                                           W.m


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