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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1737-1738
Volume 859, Page 64   View pdf image
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                         June Court               1737                    64

Somerset County ss   By Virtue of the Commission here unto annexed to us directed wee whose
names are here under writt being first duely qualified as the Law directs after due notice
given did on the third day of may one thousand seven hundred and thirty Six meet on the
aforesaid Land Called the Golden Lyon and then and there took ye depossitions above mentioned
in the presence of both parties  In Wittness whereof wee have hereunto sett our hands and seals
the day and year first above written                     Francis Allen
                                                                               John Sheldon


George Layfeild

Commission and affidavitts
 Somerset ss
                        Charles absolute Lord and Proprietary of
the provinces of Maryland and avalon Lord Baron of Baltemore
&c  To Edward Rownd James Rownd William Simpson and John Evans
all of Somerset County Gentlemen Know Ye that we have appointed you or any three or two of you
to be our Commissions to Examine evidences on behalf of a Certain George Layfield
of the County af.d in Relation to the bounds of a tract of Land Called Credwell Lying
on the seaboard side in the County af.d  We therefore Require you or any three
or two of you at some time and place as to you or any three or two of you shall seem
Convenient you meet on the af.d Land Called Credwell (You first having taken your
oath on the holy evangelist of almighty God according to Act of assembly in such
case made and provided) and there cause to come before you or any three or two of you all
such evidences as shall be to your or any two of you Nominated by the said Complainant or defendant
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 presence of the Complainant
or defend.t if any touching the truth or remembrance of their knowledge or any thing that may relate to the
Cause afd and that reduceing the severall depositions into writing you send the same together with this Commission
under your or any three or two of your hands and Seals to us to Our County Court of Somerset with all Convenient
speed wittness Robert King Gent Chiefe Justice of Our said Court the ninteenth day of March ann Dom one
thousand seven hundred & thirty Six      afterwards to witt the Twenty first day of June anno Dom one
thousand seven hundred & thirty Seven Came here into Court Edward Rownd and James Rownd two of
the Gent Mentioned in the above Commission and made return thereof to the Court here Endorsed with the
following depositions thereunto annexed viz.t  May ye 28.th 1737 Came Edward Rownd before me one of his
Lordships Justices of the peace and was qualified to Execute the within Commission by me
and also James Rownd in manner and form above said qualified by me                        Cha Rackliffe

    In Obedience to a precept here unto annexed directed to Edward Rownd James Rownd William Simpson
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