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August Court
1736
254 we have appointed you or any three or two of you to be our Comissioners to Examine Evidences on behalf on behalf ^of^ Reverend Alexander Adams of the County afd in relation to the bounds of a tract ^of Land^ Called Horseys Chance lying on the south side of Wickacomoco Creek 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 afd land Called Horseys Chance (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 there 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 Complainant or deft 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 Complainant or deft if any touching the truth or remembrance of their Knowledge or any thing that may relate to the Cau cause afd and that reducing the severall depositions into writing you send the same together with this our comission under your or any three or two of your hands and seals to us to our County Court of Somerset with all Convenient speed Robt King Gent Chief Justice of our said Court the twenty second day of November In the twenty first Year of our dominion &c Anno Dom one thousand seven hundred and thirty five on the backside of the foregoing Commission it was Endorsed Juratt Gillis of ^Geo^ Dashiell Juratt Dashiell p Thomas Gillis Now hereat to witt the Seventeenth day of August ann Dom one thousand Seven hundred and thirty Six Came hereinto Court George Dashiell & Thomas Gillis two of the Gent Nominated in the within C above Commission and made return of the Same to the Court with the following deposition The deposition of a wittness taken at the land called Horsey chance by vertue of a Commission to us directed bearing date the 22.d day of Novr 1735 Isued out of somerset County Court we first having Given notis as the law directs & being qualified for the said wch deposition is as Follows vizt Edward Sirman of somerset County planter aged sixty seven years or thereabouts being sworn on the holy evangelist of almighty God saith he was Informed by Elexander Mitchell ^that^ a corner bounder of his Land called Horseys Chance was a pine standing on the south side of a Creek called Wiccocamoco Creek about a hundred yeards from the said Creek to the eastward of a little Gulley or Gutter trenching unto the same Creek and further the same sirman says that he lived on the same land maney years and was well well aquint with the same Land and that the same tree was called Mitchells corner tree and further saith not at which place there is a Ceader post sett up marked with sixteen Notches standing in richard Mitchells cornfield in the westermost side of the cornfield Taken this 18th day of december Ann Dom 1735/before us Geo: Dashiell Thos Gilliss
to Examine Evidences on behalf of a Certain Charles Rackliff and John Purnall Junr of the County afd in relation to the bounds of a peice or parcell of Land lying in Synapuckson neck whose bounders depends on the first bounder of a tract of land Called Genezer &c Wee therefore require you or any |
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1735-1737
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