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June Court
1737
65 white oake now in his vew and told him that tree was the bounder of a our tracts of Land and that a tract Called Gleneath was one of them which tree stands on the westermost side of pocomoke River about fifty yards from the said River upon a point of high Land near the side of a small gutt known by the name of Catt Gutt and further saith not June y.e 7.th 1736/ Alexander Macredey of Somerset County planter aged fifty years of there abouts being by us sworn upon the holy evangelist of almighty God deposeth and saith that about thirty years ago (to the best of his knowledge) he was shewed an old rotten Oake stump near the side of pocomoke Bay where we Caused a pine Saplin to be Sliped on four sides between Spenniks point and Michal Cliftons Plantation and was told that was the bounder between Michal Cliftons and Edmon Howards Land but saw no markes in itt and this deponant further saith that some years after he was in Companey with M.r William Whittington the then Sury.r who was Imployed by Michal Cliften af.d to run out some part of his Land In order to discover some Land which he af.d intended to Clear and that the said Whittington then begun at the af.d old stump and further saith not The above depositions was taken before us the subscribers being first duly qualefied according to Law the day and year above written June the 7.th 1736/ Jacob Adams of Somerset County aged sixty W.m Lane Jn.o Henry years or thereabouts being sworn upon the holy evangelist of almighty God deposeth and saith that about twenty eight or twenty nine years ago Michal Cliften Imployed M.r W.m Whittington who was then Surveyer to lay out some part of his Land in order to discover if their was any vacant at the head of his Land and that they begun at a Rotten old oak stump to the best of his knowledge their was no markes to be seen in it standing between Spencix point and Michal Cliftens plantation where wee Caused a small pine to be Sliped on four sides standing with in ten or a dozen yards of the bay side and further saith not June the 7.th 1736 Sarah Byer wife of Robert Byer of Somerset County aged fifty years or thereabouts being Sworn on the holy Evangelist of almighty God deposeth & Saith that about thirty years agoe she saw Philip Conaway and John Manlove put their hands upon a white oake now in her view Standing on the West side of Pocomoke River about fifty yards from the said River near a small Gutt Called Catt Gutt and that they told her that Jenckins Price's man told them that was Jenckins Price's tree and further saith not June |
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1737-1738
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