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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1740-1742
Volume 861, Page 212   View pdf image
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    November Court               1741                            212

In the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty we met on the said Lands
Called Meeches Hope and Rich swamp and then and their in the presence of Joseph Dashiell
and Levin Dashiell we took the deposition of W.m Vohn George Scott and Joseph Bounds
                                                                                                             Day Scott   (seal)

                                                                                                          Abraham Cordery   (seal)


William Turpin son
of John Commission
and affidavitts
 Somerset ss    Charles Absolute Lord and proprietary of the provinces of Maryland
and Avalon Lord Baron of Baltemore &c  To John Waters William Waters
Nicholas Fountain and Thomas Sehon 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 William Turpin son of John of the County af.d in Relation to the bounders of a tract of
Land Called Tottonais Lying 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
Tottonais (You first haveing taken your Oaths on the hold Evangelist of Almighty God According to Act of
Assembly in such Case made and provided) and there Came 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 Complainant or def.t if any and
that you or any three or two of you Examine then 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 defendant if any
touching the truth or Remembrance of their Knowledge or any thing that may relate to the Cause af.d and that
reduceing the severall depositions into writing you send the same together with this 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 Scott Gent one of our Justices of our said Court the twenty first day of August Anno Dom one thousand
seven hundred and forty one

                And now to witt the third Tuesday of Nobember being the Seventeenth day of the same month Anno Dom
one thousand seven hundred and forty one at a Court then held ^before his Lordships Justices^ at dividing Creek in and for the County of Somerset
Came John Waters and William Waters two of the Gentlemen nominated in the above Commission and made return
thereof endorsed with the severall depositions thereto Annexed in form Following

          Be it Remembred that on the tenth day of October 1741 Came before the Subscriber Cap.t John Waters and
and M.r William Waters and made oath on the holy Evenjalis of Almighty God to Execute the within Commission as to
                                                                                                                                                                   them


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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1740-1742
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