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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1740-1742
Volume 861, Page 43   View pdf image
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    November Court                                      1740                    43

deposeth and saith that he formerly saw a Cypress stake which he believes was markt with four notches
on four sides but is possitive there was four notches on two sides which said stake did stand a Little below the
Court house Landing and was Always Allowed to be the stake mentioned in the Pattent belonging
to the Court house Land and he this deponant further saith that he verily believes the stake that now is
in his view to be the same stake as aforementioned and that to the best of his Remembrance has been
told by his father and severall Other persons that the stake now in his view was the very stake
mentioned in the Pattent af.d and further saith not                                          Jno Scott   (seal)
                                                                Taken before us                           W.m Lane   (seal)


Cap.t Henry Lowes

Commission and affidavitts
 Somerset ss  Charles absolute Lord and proprietary of the provinces of Maryland and
Avalon Lord Baron of Baltemore &c  To Mathias Gale Isaac Handy Day Scott and Joseph
Cottman 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 Lowes of the County af.d in Relation to the
bounds of a tract of Land Called Came by Chance or any other Lands Adjacent thereto 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 Come by
Chance (You first haveing 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 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
Complainat 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 second day of March 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 at a Court then held before his Lordships Justices
at dividing Creek in and for the County of Somerset Came Isaac Handy Day Scott and Joseph Cottman three
of the Gentlemen nominated in the above Commission ^and made Returne^ thereof Endorsed with the severall depositions thereunto
annexed in form following   Somerset County ss   Be it Remembred that on the 25.th day of August 1740 Came
Capt Isaac Handy Capt Day Scott and M.r Joseph Cottman and was duely qualifyed according to the directions of the
act of assembly before                                                                                                         Thomas Gillisse

    The deposition of George Baly aged about Seventy Eight years being sworn on the holy Evangelist of Almighty God deposeth and
saith that the Stump where we now are was a thriving groing read Oak ^tree^ about thirty years ago and marked on four sides with four notches on
on Each side which as this deponant Generally then and since understood was a bounder tree of a tract of Land which this deponant
                                                                                                                                                                                        then


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