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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1737-1738
Volume 859, Page 62b   View pdf image
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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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