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June
Court
1737
47 of Nicholas Evans son and heir of the said John Evans to which said Nicholas the said Ann is mother & Guardian in sorage sheweth that whereas the said Nicholas is seized in Fee by descent from his said father John Evans of and in one tract of Land Called ^rue Land one tract of Land Called^ Troy and ^one^ other Tract of Land Called Fox whole all which Lands are Scituate upon wickacomoco River in the said County of Somerset the bounds of which said tracts of Land are some what uncertaine and the bounders decaying and the Wittnesses that Can prove the Same very ancient Your petitioners therefore ^humbly^ pray In behalfe of the said Infant that Commissioners may be appointed by this Court to Examine and take depossitions in relation to the bounds of the said Severall tracts of Land to perpetuate the Memory of the Same according to the directions of the act of assembly in Such Case Lately made and provided and your petitioners as in duty bound shall pray &c The petition afd being read and heard and fully understood and mature deliberation thereupon made Wherefore it is Considered by the Justices here that a Commission Issue to the aforesaid Alexander Lackie and Ann his wife as by the petition afd is praid And that John MccClester John Leatherbury Day Scott and Thomas Winder all of Somerset County Gent be Commissioners and Execute the same Commissioners according to act of assembly in Such Case made and provided &c
Commissioners to Examine Evidences in order to perpetuate the Boundarys of the said Land and your petitioner as in duty bound shall ever pray The petition afd being read and heard and fully understood and mature deliberation thereupon had wherefore it is Considered that a Commission Issue to the afd Samuel Parker as by the petitioner afd praid and that Edw.d Rownd Edm.d Hough John Dennis Sen.r and Abraham Owten all of the County Gent be Commissioners and Execute the same Commission according to act of assembly in Such Case provided &c Capt John Gale appointed by the Court Overseer of the Roads in Nanticoke hundred in Stead of Thomas Ralph for the Ensuing Year &c Kirke Gunby and Charles Roach appointed Overseer of the Roads in Annamessex hundred for the Ensuing Year in Stead of William Coleburn Jun.r & Charles Roach &c Thomas Robins and Peter Collier appointed overseers of the Roads in Baltemore hundred in Stead of William Waltom and Isaac Marshall for the Ensuing Year &c |
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