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March Court
1736
314 or def.t 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 Promise adminstred on the holy evangelist of almighty God in the presents of the Complainet or def.t if any touching the truth or Remembrance of their knowledge or anything 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 and seals 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 20th day of August in the 22.d Year of our Dominion &.c Anno Dom 1736 On the backside of the foregoing Commission it was Endorsed This may Certifie that on the eight day of Nov 1736 Came the within mentioned Commissioners and was Qualified before me to Execute the within Commission Wittness my hand the day and year abovesaid Jn.o Smith March the fifteenth day One thousand Seven hundred and thirty six then Came the Severall Gent mentioned in the above Commission and returned the Same to the Court here with the Severall depositions following thereto annexed viz.t In Obedience to a precept hereunto Annexed the Commissioners therein meconed mentioned having given due notice and being Qualified met on the abovesaid Land on the eighth day of Nov.r 1736 and Came Jones Richards an Evidence for the Complain.t Cap.t John Smith defend.t) aged about sixty three and being sworn on the holy evangelist of allmighty God saith that he had heard severall people say that he had heard right against Cherry Bush point where now the said Smith hath thatched tob Houses and tob ground that against there as he was told was the mouth of Inlet Creek and further saith not Also for Complain.t came John Richards Sen.r aged about sixty years and being sworn as above saith as to the bounds of the said Complain.ts Land he knew nothing of them but as to the mouth of Inlet Creek Coll.l Whittington made oath that where now stands a Cedar post a bounder of the said Smiths Land standing in the marsh about a quarter of a mile to the southward of the said Cherry bush point was accounted the mouth of Inlet Creek and other people told him it was higher up to the north ward or the Narrows of the said Creek and further saith not The same day came Benjamin Idolet an evidence for the defend.t aged about sixty six years and being sworn as ^a^bove saith that about forty eight years agon he carried the Chain for Coll.l Whittington and run the bay line for W.m Cord which is now Cap.t John Smiths and where they ended on the bay line there Coll.l Whittington told him M.r Thomas Layfields Land begun and further saith that where the Ceader post above mentioned stands Coll.l Whittington and Walter Reed made oath was the mouth of Inlet Creek and further saith not Also came W.m Smith and evidence for the def.t aged about forty two years and being sworn as above saith that he did not know anything of the bounds of Cow pasture the said Layfeilds Land any further then that he heard the said Land was bounded upon Cap.t Smiths Land Called (Cow |
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1735-1737
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