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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1735-1737
Volume 851, Page 315b   View pdf image
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    March Court            1736                            315

Land in the Same mentioned and took the Severall depositions to the Same annexed which wee humbly Certifie
to the worshipfull the Justices of Somerset County Court In wittness whereof we have hereunto sett our
hands and Seals this 6.th day of may anno Dom 1736      Francis Allen + John Lane + John Sheldon +


Philip Selby Commission
and affidavitts
 Somerset ss        Charles absolute Lord and proprietary of the provinces of
Maryland and avalon Lord Baron of Baltemore &c  To James Martin
William Lane John Pope and Adam Spence all of Somerset County Gent
Greeting know ye that we have appointed you or any three or two of you to be our Commissioners to
examine evidences on behalf of a Certain Phillip Selby of the County af.d in Relation to the bounds
of a tract of Land Called Ceder Grove or any other Lands Joyning to the same  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 af.d Land Called Ceader grove or any the Lands Joyning (You first having taken your oaths
on the holy evangelist of almighty God according to Act of assembly in such case made and provided
an there 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 Complainant or def.t if any and that you or any three or two of you
Examine them upon there 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 Complaine^n^t or def.t if any touching the truth or Remembrance
of there 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
and seals to us to our County Court of Somerset with all Convenient speed Wittness Robert King Gen.t Chief
Justice of our said Court the 19.th day of June in the 22.d Year of our Dominion &.c  Anno Dom 1736

On the foregoing Commission it was endorsed as Followeth viz.t  August the 14th 1736  Came Cap.t William Lane
and M.r John Pope before me the subscriber and was duely Qualifyed to execute the within Commision
according to ^the^ directions of an Act of assembly in that case made      Sworn day and year above written before
me                                                                                                                                                Jam.s Martin

                      Now hereat this day to witt the fifteenth day of march anno Dom One thousand seven
hundred & thirty Six Came William Lane and John Pope two of the Gent mentioned in the above
Commission and made return thereof to the Court here Endorsed with the Severall affidavitts following
thereto annexed vizt      November 10.th 1736  We the Subscriber doe hereby Certifie that we have duly
Executed the within Commission having first given due notice to all persons Conserned According to
the Act of assembly in that case provided         William Lane  John Pope

Somerset ss.t  November y.e 10.th 1736
                                                                John Purnall Sen.r of the County af.d planter aged sixty four years
or there abouts being by us sworn upon the holy evangelist of almighty God deposeth and saith that about
forty years ago to the best of his knowledge M.r Daniel Selby shewed him a white Oak standing on
the south side of Pikes Creek (les Bever Dam Creek) about forty pole from the said Creek and on
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