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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1735-1737
Volume 851, Page 261b   View pdf image
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        November Court                    1736                    261

John White Southy Whittington
& Edwd Hearn petn
 Somerset ss      To the worshipfull Justices of the County afd  In Court
now sitting the humble petition of John White Southy Whittington and
Edward Hearn Humbly Sheweth That whereas your Petitioners Hath
in their Possession a tract of Land Called Scotland lying in annamessex in the County afd the
Boundary's whereof are decayed and Evideces to prove them Antient and Infirm wherefore your
Petitioners prays your Worships to grant them a Commission and appoint Commissioners to
perpetuate the bounds of the said tract of Land according to act of assembly in such case
provided and your petitioners as in duty bound shall ever pray

    The petition afd being read and heard and the premisses fully understood &a

             Wherefore it is Considered by the Court here that a Commission Issue to the afd
John White Southy Whittington and Edward Hearn as by the petition afd is praid and
that Thomas Williams Thomas Dixon Charles Cottingham and William Coleburn of Somerset
County Gent be Commissioners and Execute the Same Commission according to act of assembly in
such Case made and provided &a


Francis Lancake
        petn
 Somerset ss     To the Worshipfull Justices of Somerset County now in Court
sitting the Humble petition of Francis Lancake most Humbly sheweth
that Your Petitioner hath a negro Called Toby who is so Decayed with age
and a rapture in his Secret parts so that he is not capable of doeing any sevice so as to earn
his victuals and cloths and hath been so for some years past your petitioner therefore humbly
prays he may be discharged here after from paying of levies for time to come and your petitioner
as in duty bound shall ever pray

       The petition afd being read and heard and fully understood  wherefore it is Considered by the Justices
here that the aforesaid Francis Lancake be discharged for the future from paying of Levys for the afd Negro
Tony as by the petition afd is praid &a


Smith Horsey negro Boy Called London is adjudged by the Court hereto be of the age of Nine years

Smith Horsey Negro Boy Called Frank is adjudged by the Court here to be of the age of Ten Years &a


Lewis Jones
    petn
 To the Worshipfull Justices of Somerset County in Court sitting the Petition of
Lewis Jones humbly sheweth that your Petitioner hath a Considerably parcell of
marsh leying in the fork of rock Creek through which a ridge of wood land ground lyes on
which the main road now goes and on the side of your petitioners marsh which at present is
a very great [illegible] to your petitioner and intirely deprives him from incloseing the same
                                                                                                                   (wherefore


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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1735-1737
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