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March Court
1736
312 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 Remembrance of their knowledge or any thing that may relate to the Cause af.d and that Reducing the severall depositions into writing you send the same together with this our Commission under your or any three or two of your hands to us to our County Court of Somerset with all Convenient Speed Wittness Rob.t King Gen.t Chief Justice of our said Court the 28.th day of November in the 18.th Year of our Dominion &c Anno Dom 1732 On the backside of the foregoing Commission it was Endorsed as followeth vizt march ye 25.th 1735 This is to Certifie that M.r William Waters M.r John Waters and Mr William Turpin (son of Wm) Commissioners within appointed were qualified according to act of assembly in that Case provided before David Wilson March the fifteenth day Anno Dom One thousand Seven hundred and thirty Seven Came William Waters Jun.r and John Waters and William Turpin three of the Gent nominated in the within Commission and made return thereof to the Court here with the Severall depositions following thereunto annexed vizt Somerset ss.t Wee William Waters John Waters and W.m Turpin Commissioners appointed as within do Certifie that we have taken the depositions hereunto annext having first Given due notice to all persons Concerned According to Certain Act of assembly made in this Case and provided as wittness our hands Somerset ss.t William Catlin aged forty seven Years or there abouts deposeth W.m Waters on the holy evangelist of Almighty god and saith that a Certain white Oak with John Waters sixteen Noches in it standing on the south side of a Road that Leads from William W.m Turpin Jun.r Bostons to where now Daniel Hull Lives not farr fro the said Hulls that some ^time^ a Goe when a Certain James Curtiss late of this County deceased was owner of a tract of Land Called Long Ridge Lying on Marumscho dams in the af.d County that then a Certain Adam Hitch Late of the af.d County deceased told him that the abovesaid White Oak was a Cornner or Beginning of a tract of Land Called Longridge this deponent further saith that his father Robert Catlin Late of this County deceased about forty years agoe was Coming a Long Marumscho dams side ^and he was in Company with his father & y.n his father show'd ^find^ a white oake standing on Marumscho dams side^ and told him that it was the Beginning tree of his tract of Land Called Longridge but the tree he Cant now justly tell where it stands but to the Best of his knowledge it was not farr from where there now stands and old white oak tree part Burnt down and in about twenty yards from the said burnt stump there is a small redd Oak marked with sixteen Noches in itt further this deponent saith not Aperill 19.th 1735 John Waters Somerset County ss Wm Waters Thomas Williams aged fifty Years or thereabouts deposeth on Wm Turpin Junr the Holy evangelist of almighty God and saith that some time about eighteen years agoe that then he saw a white Oak that now stands on the south side of the Road that Leads from William Bostons to where Daniell Hull Lives not farr from the said Hull with sixteen notches in it that then the abovesaid oak was Newly Markt or some part of itt was Newly Markt and seemed to be a Cornner tree and some part of itt small time after this deponent saith he had an oppertunitie to ask Maj.r William Planner (whose |
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1735-1737
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