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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1735-1737
Volume 851, Page 288   View pdf image
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        November Court                        1736                    288

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 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 presence
of the Complainent or deft if any touching the truth or Remembrance of their knowledge
or any thing that may relate to the Cause afd and that reducing the severall depositions
into wrighting 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 Robert King Gent Cheif Justices of our said Court the nineteenth day of
June in the twenty second year of our dominion &c  Anno Dom one thousand seven hundred
and thirty six                        On the foregoing Commission it was Endorsed vizt

Maryland ss  Be it remembred that upon the Twenty third day of aug.t 1736 the within Mentioned
Day Scott and George Dashiell Qualified themselves to Execute the within Commission
by taking the Oath required by act of assembly before the Subscriber One of the
Justices of the provinciall Court                                          Levin Gale

Now hereat this Sixteenth day of November ann Dom One thousand Seven hundred and
thirty Six Came into Court Day Scott and Geo Dashiell two of the Commissioners mentioned
in the above Commission and returned the Same with the depositions thereto annexed
as followeth viz.t    The deposition of Thomas Rencher aged fifty two years
or their abouts being Sworn on the holy Evangelist of allmighty God saith that about Twenty
years ago he was shown this bounded tree by John Shiles and Sarah Green both dec.d and
told this deponant that it was the bounded tree by John Shiles of a tract of land Called
hickory Ridge and further this deponant saith that about fourteen years agoe
Certain James Inglish now decd was in Companey with him at the house where Thomas
Willing now lives and that the afd James Inglish pointed out his hand and said unto
this deponant younder Stands the bounder tree of this tract of Land for I Carried the Chaine
at a resurvey made on the said Land which tree before mentioned stand by the Edge of
a Swamp and about thirty yards from the Edge of the plantation of the abovesaid
Thomas Willing and further this deponant Saith not Given under his hand and Seal
this second day of November One thousand Seven hundred and thirty Six
                                                                                                    his
                                                                                        Thomas T Rencher   (seal)
                                                                                                    marke

    The Deposition of John Shiles (son of John Shiles above mentioned) aged thirty
                                                                                                                   five


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