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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1760-1763
Volume 543, Page 176   View pdf image
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      August Court            1762            176
If any touching the truth or Remembrance of their Knowledge or
any thing that may Relate to the Cause afsd: & that Reducing the
Several Depositions Into Writing you send the same 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 Witness Isaac Handy Esqr. Chief Justice of our Said
Court the 19th day of [March] In the 11th year of our Dom. 1762
And now to wit at a Court of his Lordship held at Princes Ann
Town the third Tuesday of August being the Seventeenth day of the
Same month Anno Dom. 1762 before the Justices thereof Came
William Murray, Thomas Gilliss, Purnall Johnson and George
handy, the Gent. Nominated in the within Commission and
Returned the same Endorsed in manner following withe the
Severall Deposition thereto annexed April the 12th. 1762 came
Thomas Gilliss William Murray Purnall Johnson and George Handy
and made Oath on the Holy Eangelist of Almighty God to
Execute the within Commission According to the direction of an
Act of Assembly in such Case made and Provided Before
                                                             Isaac Handy
Be it Remembred that whereas the Worshipfull Justices of Somerset
County by their Commission to us Directed Bearing date the
Nineteenth day of March 1762 for the Examining Evidences to
Perpetuate the Bounderys of a Certain Tract of Land Called
Hogg Neck Lying on Wecomoco River in Possession of Jarvis
Jenkins and in Obedience to the Said Commission after being
duly Quallifyed as the Law Directs we Proceeded to advertise the
time of meeting on the said Land for the Executing the said Commission
and accordingly appointed the 17th. day of May 1762 and on that day we
met on the said Land Called Hogg Neck and took the following Depositions Vizt
The Deposition of Pheby Dishroon aged forty three years or there
about being sworn on the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God
Deposeth and saith about Twenty years by past she was in Company
with John Crouch on a point of Land Below where the said Crouch
Lived at the mouth of a small gut and that the said Crouch
Shewed this Deponant a Cedar Tree that was Dead and told her
that tree was the first Bounder of his Land and Desired her to take
notice that if Ever she should hear any Dispute about the
Bounders of his Land and she should be the Longest Liver that
she might be a Witness to it and further Sayeth not
                                                        Pheby Disharoon


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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1760-1763
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