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June Court
1737
62 speed Wittness John Smith Gen.t one of our Justices of our said Court the twentieth day of March in the 21.st Year of our Dominion &.c Anno Dom 1735 On the foregoing Commission it was Endorsed vizt March the 30.th 1736 Came Mess.rs Francis Allen John Henry and John Sheldon before me the subscriber and was duely Qualifi'd to Execute the within Commission According to the directions of an Act of assembly in that Case made sworn before me James Martin The Execution of the within Commission appears in Certain depositiones to the same Annexed so Answers Francis Allen Jn.o Sheldon Somerset County ss.t Deposition of Wittnesses taken In Relation to the bounds of part of a tract of Land Called the Golden Lyon on the behalf of Solomon Riggen by Vertue of a Commission to us Whose names are here under Written directed by the Worshipfull the Justices of Somerset County Court bearing date the twentieth day of March Anno Dom one thousand seven hundred and thirty five we being first duly sworn according to Law Edmund Dickerson Sen.r of Somerset County planter aged seventy years or there abouts being sworn on the holy evangelist of almighty God by us the said Commissioners deposeth and saith that upon the point of an Oystershell Hammock wherein he now stands within twenty foot of a Ceder tree Blown down stood the first bounder of a tract of Land Called the Golden Lyon and that ^he^ Verily Believes the same Ceder tree now blown down to be the first bounder of the tract of Land Called the Golden Lyon and that upon Teague Riggen the elder his taking up of a tract of Land Containing one hundred Acres Called Riggens mine (as he is Informed) he was present at the Survey and they bagan to Run their Course from the said first bounder Ceader tree and further saith not Teague Donohoe of Somerset County planter aged fifty his Edmund T Dickerson mark years or there abouts being sworn on the holy evangelist of almighty God (by us the said Commissioners) deposeth and saith that upon the point af.d near to the tree that Edmund Dickerson hath sworn to as his father in Law Teague Riggen son of Teague Riggen the elder Informed him stood (within twenty foot of ^the^ Ceeder tree sworn to by Edm.d Dickerson) the first bounder of the tract of Land Called the Golden Lyon and further saith not his Teague I Donohoe mark Teague Rigg^en^ of Somerset County planter aged forty years or thereabouts being sworn on the holy evangelist of almighty God (by us the said Commissionrs and saith |
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