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August Court
1735
(71) 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 presents of the Complainents or def.t if any touching the truth or rememberance of their knowledge or anything that may relate to the Cause af.d and that reduceing the Severall depositions into writing you send the same together with this our Comission under your or any three or two of your hands & Sealls to us to our County Court of Somerset with all Convenient Speed Wittness Robert King Gent Chief Justice of our said Court the twenty Second day of June In the twentieth year of our dominion &.a Ann Dom One thousand Seven hundred and thirty four On the backside of the foregoing Commission it wad Endorsed as Followeth Viz.t Sep.tr 19.th 1734 Memd this day Joseph Wailes and Day Scott were Quallified on the within Commission before me James Dashiell The Execution of the within Commission appears by the Severall depositions hereunto Annext Day Scott Likewise to y.e foregoing Commission were Annexed the Joseph Wailes following depositions Viz.t The Deposition of M.r James Makmorie aged Sixty two years or thereabouts being Sworn upon the holy Evangelist of Almighty God saith that he was told about thirty years ago or thereabouts that this marked red oak (which oak stands at the head of a branch Issuing out of a Creek called Manumco on the lower most side of the said Branch) is the first bounder of a Divisionall line between M.r Mathew Nutter now deceased and M.r Christopher Nutter now deceased to the best of his knowledge and further saith that this Hickory to the best of his knowledge is the Hickory shown to him for the second bounder of the uper part of the neck being about a quarter of a mile distant from the first bounder between Mathew Nutter and Christopher Nutter now deceased and further this deponant saith not The Deposition of M.r Alexander Lackey aged thirty five years or there abouts being Sworn upon the holy Evangelist of Almighty God saith that about two or three years ago there was some dispute amongst the heirs of Christopher Nutter and Mathew Nutter now deceased which of the red Oaks was the third and last of the bounder trees of the Divisionall line Crossing the said Neck upon which dispute Severall people went down & this deponant saith that his wife now deceased told him amongst the rest of the Company the lowermost of the red oaks was the bounder tree of the devisionall line between her late husband Mathew Nutter now deceased and his brother Christopher Nutter now deceased which two red oaks stands near the Clear grownd of Mathew Nutter son of Mathew Nutter now deceased and about thirty yards from a Creeks side called Quanticoe and further this deponant saith not The deposition of M.r Christopher Piper aged thirty Eight years or there abouts being Sworn on the holy Evangelist of Almighty God saith that M.r Christopher Nutter now deceased had & severall people down (some time before his death) on the long point that makes down against Peters Creek called the Marsh landing and amongst the rest this deponant saith that the said Christopher Nutter now deceased showed them the Stump of a tree which tree he told them was the first bounded tree in the Neck on which all the land in the neck depended on and at the same time the afores.d Christopher Nutter now deceased Caused another Small tree to be marked in stead of the afores.d tree which tree is the first bounder of a tract of land called Nutters Adventure and further this deponant saith not M.r James Makmorie aged Sixty two years or their abouts M.r Alexander Lackie (aged |
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1735-1737
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