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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1740-1742
Volume 861, Page 229   View pdf image
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                     March Court                      1741                           229

    And now to witt the third Tuesday of March being the Sixteenth 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 Scarbrough and ^Mr^ Edm.d Hough two of the Gentlemen nominated in the
above Commission and made return thereof endorsed with the Severall depositions thereto annexed in form Following
Oc.t 6.th 1741   Came Cap.t John Scarbrough and ^M.r^ Edm.d Hough two of the Commissioners within named and was
duely Qualifyed to Execute the within Commission as the Law directs            Sworn before Jam.s Martin

The Execution of the within Commission appears by a Certain Schedule hereunto annexed

Somerset County ss/   By Virtue of a Commission to us directed bearing date the 26th of November 1740 to examine
Evidences in relation to the bounders of two tracts of Land lying in the County af.d the one Called Grove
the other Castle quarter on behalfe of a Certain Hugh Stevenson of the County af.d
Wee the Subscribers being Quallified have appointed a day as the Law directs and have
mett on the af.d Land and there Caused to Come before in this 10.th of march 1741/2

Ephraim Heather aged Seventy three Years or there abouts being sworn on the holy
Evangelist of almighty God do say that the forked white Oak standing on the south side
of a branch Commonly known and Called George Trewitts branch and up the said branch and
above M.r Stevensons plantation about a quarter of a mile it being the first bounder of
of Grove and the said Heather was shewed a Live oak by M.r Davise standing in a branch
a Little above the main Road that Leads from Snowhill upwards a Cross the said branch
and the said Heather Carried us to a Little Old field Called Hooks field and showed a stump
where now is fixed a sassafras Post notched with four notches on each side that is to say
Sixteen notches and that he was showed the tree were now the Sassafras post stands by
John Miller at the Request of M.r Davise forty years agoe and further saith not

    George Truit aged fifty years or there abouts being sworn on the holy Evangelist of
almighty God do say that the above mentioned forked white oak standing as before mentioned
is the first bounder of the Land Called Grove and further saith not
                                                          This taken before us                    Jno Scarbrough  (seal)
                                                                                                            Edm Hough         (seal)


His Lordship
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David Smith
 Sommerset ss    Memorandum That at a Court of his Lordship the right Honourable the Lord
proprietary of the province of maryland held at dividing Creek in Somerset County the third
Tuesday of November to witt the Seventeenth day of the same month Anno Dom one thousand
                                                                                                                                                             seven


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