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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1740-1742
Volume 861, Page 91   View pdf image
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March Court                                            1740                                        91

three or two of you at some time and place as to you or any three or two of you shall think Convenient
you meet on the afd Land Called Winchester 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 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 you
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 March being the Seventeenth day of the same month
Anno Dom one thousand seven hundred and forty at a Court then held at dividing Creek before his
Lordships Justices in and for the County of Somerset Came Samuel Hopkins John Evans David
Johnson and John Purnall the Gentleman nominated in the above Commission and made Return
thereof endorsed with the severall depositions thereto annexed in form Following

    Aprill 18.th 1740  Then was Capt Samuel Hopkins one of the within Commissioners and was duely
Qualify'd to execute the within Commission according to the directions of an act of assembly in that case
made                                                                                  Witness         Jam Martin

Aprill y.e 26.th 1740  Then was David Johnson one of the within Commissioners Quallified to execute
the within Commission according to the directions of an act of assembly in that case made and provided
                                                                                                                       Witness Sam.ll Hopkins

John Evans and John Purnall was duly Quallified the day last mentioned according to Law ^by^ Sam.ll Hopkins

Aprill the 26.th 1740
                                     The Commissioners appointed to Examine Evidences of the bounds
of Winchester meeting with the tree Following Evidences at John Patey.s viz.t William Kenet William
Turvill and Elizabeth Glass Carried or piloted us north easterly to a point of marsh in the Lower part
of his neck lying open to the mouth of the Creek and opposite to St Martains River at the point of marsh
dividing between the Creek Called Pateys Creek the other Kennets Creek to a Certain Gut Issuing out
of one into the other with a Little Island to the eastward of the said Gutt Called Shad Gut as the Following
deponants terms it

            William Kennet aged about forty one years being solemnly sworn on the holy evangelist
of Almighty God by the subscribers the Commissioners to Examine ^the^ Evidences of a Certain tract of Land
Called Winchester declares that the Gutt above described he belives to be Shad Gutt and the first bounder
of Winchester for the Reasons Following for that he heard Old Capt William Fassitt declares on his
Oath to the Land Judges or Justices some Considerable time Ago when they mett on the same Land in
                                                                                                                                                 dispute
                                                                                                               


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