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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1737-1738
Volume 859, Page 67b   View pdf image
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       June Court                               1737                                        67

thousand seven hundred and thirty seven came hereinto Court James Mackmorie and Mathias Dashiell two of the
Gen.ts mentioned in the above Commission and made return thereof to the Court here Endorsed with the following depositions
thereto annexed viz.t  October ye 11.th ^1736^ then Came James Mackmorie and Mathias Dashiell and was qualified
according as the Law in such Case made and provided before me Dashiell      By virtue of the within Commission
we the Subscribers two of the four persons hereby appointed to Execute the Same after giving due notice as
the Law in such Cases requires we having taken the depositions viz.t of John Evans and of Daniel Cordery
relating to the Land within Called Long Acre being hereunto annexed Wittness our hands this twenty fourth of
9.ber anno Dom 1736   By virtue of the above Commission annexed hereunto we the Subscribers two of the
four persons thereby appointed to execute the powers therein Contained wherefore after giving
due and advertisment according to law on the abovesaid Land Called Longacre in the presence
of the Complainant or def.t appearing wee took the following depositions (Viz.t) of John
Evans and Daniel Cordery on the fifth day of November Anno Dom seventeen hundred
thirty six as wittness our hands and seals

       The deposition of John Evans aged fifty eight years or there abouts being sworn upon
the holy evangelist saith that he was told by Coll Francis Jenckins that the first bounder
of this Land called Long Acre was a pine and that afterward M.r Tho.s Walker shewed him
this pine being then a standing marked tree (now decayed to small rotten Stump ) and told
him the deponant that it was the bounder of this said Land Called Longacre and that
Phillip Akine and M.r Edward Day told him the same Likwise further sayeth not

          The deposition of Daniel Cordery aged forty three years or thereabouts being
sworn upon the holy evangelist saith that this stump only now remaining was about
thirty year ago when he first knew it a standing dead tree and marked which might be
plainly seen and that upon a Contraversey about Land between his father and ^M.r^ Benj.a
Wailes Robert Givan run out this Land and begun at this tree or Stump as the
first bounder of Longacre and that afterwards W.m Whittington surveyer ran the Land
again and begun at this same stump likewise as the first bounder of Long Acre further
sayeth not                                                                                {Jams Mackmorie (+)
                                                                                               {Mathias Dashiell   (+)


FA  John Atkinson
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RH  John Bishop
    Command was given to the Sheriff of Somerset County that he should take John Bishop
Junr Late of Somerset County planter al.s dict.s John Bishop Jun.r of Somerset
County in the province of Maryland planter if he Should be found in his bailywick and him
Should safe keep so that he might have his body before the Justices of his Lordships County Court of Somerset
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