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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1735-1737
Volume 851, Page 286   View pdf image
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           November Court                   1736                   286

the deponant that a Certain poplar was his bounder and that afterwards the said deponant came
with Thomas Ralph to the same tree and it was marked with sixteen Notches and that
the notches seemed to have been made a great while and that the said deponant came to the
same tree by himself and it was marked with siteen sixteen notches which tree was then a
growing tree and that the tree we are now at being fell down is the very tree being on the north
side of the main Road that goes up Quantico to the mill and near the head of a Creek Called
Whittys branch and on the westermost side of said Creek and further saith not
                                                                                                          his
                                                                                                James J R Russell (seal)
                                                                                                          mark

The deposition of Thomas Ralph aged about fifty seven years having first taken
his oath on the holy evangelist of almighty ^God^ saith that about thirty three years ago Edward
Bennet now dec.d told him that there stood a marked poplar on a peice of Level ground on the
lower side of a Creek Whittys branch near the old Wading place was the first bounder
of spans Neck and that about ten or twelve years after James Russell the above deponant told
the now d^e^ponent that the said poplar was the bounder of Nehemiah Nicholson and that the
said poplar was then marked with sixteen notches and that said notches seemed to have been
made a Considerable time and further saith not                                           his
                                                                                                    Thomas I Ralph  (seal)
                                                                                                                mark
By Vertue of the within Commission directed to us the subscribers we have appointed According to
said Commission Examined the above Evidences on their Corporall oaths what they had to declare
Concerning the first bounder of westloe neck Given under our hands and seals this thirteenth
day of September Annoquie Domine 1736                                    Jas Makmorie  (seal)
                                                                                                    Day Scott      (seal)
                                                                                                    Alexr Leckie    (seal)


Alexander Adams
Commission & affidavitts
 Somerset sst  Charles absolute Lord and proprietary of the provinces
of Maryland and avalon Lord Baron of Baltemore &c  To Levin
Gale George Dashiell John Handy and Thomas Gillis all of Somerset
County County Esq.rs Greeting know ye that we have appointed you or any three or two of you
to be our Comissioners to Examine Evidences on behalf of a Certain Alexd Adams Clk of the
County afd in relation to the bounds of part of a tract of land Called Tonys Vinyeard  We
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 Tonys vineyard (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 caus to come before you or any three or two of you all such such
Evidences as shall be to you or any three or two of you nominated by the said Complainent or deft
                                                                                                                                              if


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