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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1740-1742
Volume 861, Page 169b   View pdf image
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                August Court                                            1741           169

Henry Ballard

Commission and affidavitts
 Sommerset ss
                           Charles absolute Lord and Proprietary of the provinces of Maryland and
Avalon Lord Baron of Baltemore &.a  To John Finch Thomas Brown John Gray and David Polk
all of Somerset County Gent Greeting know ye that we have appointed you or any three or two of you to be our Commissioners to
Examine Evidences on behalf of a Certain Henry Ballard of the County af.d in Relation ^to^ the bounds of a tract of Land Called
Turkey Ridge  Wee 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 Turkey Ridge (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 all such Evidences as shall be to you or any three or two of you Nominated by the said Complainant 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 presents of the Complainant of or deft if any touching the truth or
Remembrance of this 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 our Commission under you or any three or two of your hands and Seals to us
to our County Court of Somerset with all Convenient speed  Wittness John Smith Gent one of our Justices of our said Court
the twentyeth day of March Anno Dom one thousand seven hundred and thirty five

             And now to witt the Eighteenth day of August Anno Dom one thousand seven hundred and forty one at dividing Creek
at a Court then and there held for the County af.d Came David Polk and John Gray two of the Gentlemen nominated in the above
Commission and made return thereof Endorsed with ^the^ severall depositions thereto annexed in form Following

Sep.r 18.th 1736   Then Came John Finch and was Qualliied agreeable to Act of Assembly in that Case provided to Execute the within
Commission   before                                                                                                                                                            RKing
                                                                                                                                                                                           1731
Sep.r 18.th 1736   Then Came David Polk and was Q^u^allified agreable to the Act of Assembly in Such Case provided to Execute the
within Commission    before                                                                                                                                             Tho.s Gilliss

July 18.th 1741   Appeared John Gray before ^me^ one of his L: D: pr Justices of the peace for Somerset County  And was Quallified
as a Commissioner to Examin Execute the within Commission as the Law Directs      Sworn before                        Geo: Dashiell

Somerset County ss/   These are to Certifie whom it may Concern that notice has been Given as by Law directed and the Execution
of the within Commission appears by the Endorsments thereon and the ^severall^ depositions thereunto Annexed Given under our hands
and Seals this 18th of July 1741                                                                                                                     John Finch      (+)
                                                                                                                                                                     David Polk     (+)
           The deposition of Mathew Dorman Aged about fifty Eight depones that some time ago he                    John Gray      (+)
was in Company with his brother Henry Dorman and about a mile in the woods from the deponants house Notherly from the said
House and that said Henry then shewed the deponant a Large red Oak standing in the place af.d near a Cart Road which Leads to the
deponants House which the said Henry then told him that that said Oak was a bounder of a tract of Land Called Turkey Ridge & to the
best of his knowledge the first bounder of the said Tract and further sayeth not                                             Mathew Dorman
Sep.t y.e 18 1736
    John Finch
    David Polk

        The deposition of Henry Dorman Aged Sixty nine years or thare abouts being Sworn on the holy Evangely of Almighty God deposeth
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