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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1740-1742
Volume 861, Page 70   View pdf image
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             March Court                  1740               70

George Irving Commission
and Affidavitt
 Somerset ss    Charles absolute Lord and Proprietary of the provinces
of maryland and Avalon Lord Baron of Baltemore &.a  To Robert
Jones Thomas Browne John Elzey and William Jones Manny 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 George Erving of the County afd in Relation to the Bounds of a tract of Land
Called Betts delight or Betts Purchase Lying on Monocan River  We therefore REquire you or any
three or two of you at some and Place as to you or any three or two of you shall seem Convenient you
meet on the afd Land Called Betts delight or Betts Purchase (You first haveing taken your oath 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 Complainant or deft
if any touching the truth or Remembrance of their knowledge or any thing that may Relate to the
Cause afd 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 August Anno Dom one thousand seven hundred and forty

                  And Now to witt the third Tuesday of March being the Seventeenth 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 John Elzey and William Jones two
of the Gentlemen nominated in the above Commission and made Return thereof endorsed   with
the deposition thereto annexed in form following

                     October the 10.th Anno Dom 1740   Then Came Capt John Elzey and Capt W.m Jones
and made Oath on the holy Evangelist of Almighty God well and truely to Execute the within
Commission according to act of assembly in such Case made and Provided
                                                                                     Before me            Robert Jones

                       By Vertue if a Commission hereunto Annexed we the subscribers haveing
first taken our Oaths well and truely to execute the same and haveing given Notice of our
meeting as the Law directs meet on the Land Called Betts delight Belonging to George Irving
the Eleventh day of October Anno Dom 1740 and took the following deposition of George
Phebus J.r as wittness our hands and seals this twentieth day of Febry Anno Dom 1746
                                                                                                                   J Elzey (seal)
                                                                                                                   W.m Jones  (seal)

The Deposition of George Phebus J.r Aged Ninety six years or there abouts being sworn
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