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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1737-1738
Volume 859, Page 83   View pdf image
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    June Court               1737            83

Commissioners to Examine Evidences on behaf behalf of a Certain John White Southy Whittington
and Edward Hearn of the County af.d in Relation to the bounds of a tract of Land Called
Scottland Lying in Annemessex 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 Scottland (you first having taken your oaths
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 you or any three or two of you nominated by the said Complainent or deft
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 Complainent or def.t if any touching the truth
or Remembrance of their knowledge or anything that may relate to the cause af.d
and that reducing 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
Chief Justice of our said Court the twenty second day of December in the twenty
second year of our Dominion &c Anno Dom one thousand seven hundred and thirty
six                 afterward to witt the twenty first day of June Anno Dom one thousand
seven hundred and thirty seven Came hereinto Court W.m Colebourn and Thomas Dixon
two of the Gen.t nominated in the above Commission and made return thereof to the Court here
endorsed with the following depositions thereunto annexed viz.t  The deposition of Rob.t
Scott aged 57 or thereabouts being dewly qualifyed declairs ^that^ his father shewed him a marked
white oak standing on the north side of a part of the dam below the goeing over where the Road now
is and up a branch and told him it was the third Corner tree a bounder of a tract of land Called
Scotland and further saith not
which tree appears standing as above discribed but by som ill disposed person Cutt Round and
dead and now a small gum marked with a knife with sixteen notches about 12 foot north
from the af.d tree      we the subscribers being dewly Qualifyed and mett on the spott
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1737-1738
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