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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1740-1742
Volume 861, Page 42b   View pdf image
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                                 November Court               1740                        42

185   Damages by occasion of the detaining of the same debt to One hundred and eighty five         pounds of tobacco to the same
George of his Assent by the Court here adjudged and the af.d Samuel in Mercy &c


Robert Geddes
Commission and affidavitts
 Somerset ss     Charles absolute Lord and Proprietary of the Provinces of maryland and
Avalon Lord Baron of Baltemore &.a  To John Scott William Lane Francis Allen and John
                                 Dennis Jun.r all of Somerset County Gentleman Greeting Know ye that we have appointed you or
       or any three or two of you to be our Commissioners to Examine Evidences on behalf of a Certain Robert Geddes
       of Somerset County Inholder in Relation to the bounds of a tract of Land Called Little Derry 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 mete on the af.d Land Called Little Derry 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 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 presence of the Complainant or deft if any touching the truth or
       Remembrance of their knowledge or any thing 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 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 Seventh day of November Anno Dom
       one thousand seven hundred and thirty nine

                   And now to witt the third tuesday of November being the Eighteenth day of the same month Anno Dom
       one thousand seven hundred and forty       before his Lordships Justices at dividing Creek in Court Judicially
       sitting Came John Scott and William Lane two of the Gentleman nominated in the above Commission and
       made Return thereof to the Court here endorsed with the deposition thereto annexed in form following
      
                   Be it Remembred that on the 25.th day of January 1740 Came before me Capt John Scott and
       made Oath on the holy Evangelist of almighty God that he would execute the within Commission
       According to act of assembly to the best of his knowledge
                                                                                                    Sworn before me            Jno Scott

          September y.e 23.d 1740   The deposition of George Tull of Somerset County Planter aged Sixty
       two years or there abouts being sworn on the holy Evangelist of Almighty God upon his said Oath
                                                                                                                                        deposeth


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