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June Court
1737
63 saith that his father Teague Riggen son of Teague Riggen the elder told him that the first bounder of the tract of Land called the Golden Lyon being a Ceader tree stood within twenty foot or thereabouts of the place sworn to by the af.d Evidences and that the same tree which his father told him was the first bounder he hath often stood and fished off it but that he never lookt on the said tree for notches nor dont Remember that he ever saw on the said tree but took it from his fathers words and the said deponent further saith that he was present when James Dickerson was examined upon oath by William Holland James Nearn and Jn.o Outen by virtue of a Commission from Somerset County Court who upon his said oath declared that Ambrose Riggen then posses'd of the Land lying on the north side of the first bounder of the Land Called the Golden Lyon and Peter Dickerson Possessed on the South side of the said first bounder of the said Land Imployd him the said James Dickerson to Cutt the ditch upon the Line as near as he Could between them and that the ditch now in his view was the said ditch that the said James Dickerson swore he was Imployed about and further this deponant ^saith^ that at the time of Mary Riggin the wife of Teague Riggin the Elders being Examined by the Commissioners afd she was by the direction of William Holland one of the said Commissioners afd Lead by the road by Ambross Riggin her son to the place Expressed by John Riggins deposition near which place one Wilson told her husband in her hearing that he had Cutt down a tree and markt another Lower down the Creek and further Saith not Teague Riggen Darby Riggin of Somerset County planter aged fifty three years or there abouts being also sworn on the holy Evangelist of almighty God deposeth and Saith that Peter Dickerson and Ambross Riggin who were possessors of the Land sworn to as Expresst in Teague Riggens deposition always allowed the Stooping Ceader tree sworn to by John Riggin and Mary Riggin his wife to be the bounder that divided the Land Called the Golden Lyon in possession of Ambross Riggin from the Land Called Riggins mine in the possession of Peter Dickerson and this deponent further saith that he heard his brother Teague Riggin say that Richard Wilson Cutt down the Beginning tree of his fathers Land Called the Golden Lyon which stood upon Puttoags Hammock and that he had marked him another tree Lower down the Creek and further saith not his Darby D Riggin mark James Neirn of Somerset County planter aged Twenty Eight Years or their abouts being duly Sworn on the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God (by us the said Commissioners) deposeth and saith that some years ago he this deponant with William Holland and John Owten was appointed (by the Worshipfull the Justices of Somerset County Court) one of the Commissioners to Examine Wittnesses in relation to the bounders of a tract of Land Called the Golden Lyon and that upon the Examination of Mary |
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1737-1738
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