Shelby County KyArchives Deed.....Deposition, Land - Hall, William April 26, 1796 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ky/kyfiles.html ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Patricia O'Connor p-oconnor@att.net August 10, 2007, 12:39 pm Tick Creek Written: April 26, 1796 TRANSCRIPTION; DEPOSITION SHELBY CO. DEED BK B1, P 299 - 301 TYLOR; HALL; BOONE; CLEAVLAND; RINGO; DUNKIN; GORDON; GARRETT; TALBOT; CRAIG R. TYLORs claim Wm HALLs Dept. Agreeable to an Order of the Worshipful Court of Shelby County and a Warrant to us directed we have caused to appear before us William HALL who being of Lawful age and first sworn on the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God deposeth and saith that a certain Beech Tree Standing on the bank of Tick Creek near the mouth of a Small branch and with in ___ forty yards of the House which John CLINE now lives in is the tree which has been known and called the Indian painted tree Quest the 1st by Robert TYLOR: do you know or did you ever hear of any other tree on Tick Creek but the one above mentioned being called the Indian painted tree? Ans: I do not know of any other neither did I ever hear of any other. Quest the 2nd: do you know this to be the cabbin which I bought of Squire BOONE? Ans: It is the cabbin I have always understood was the one you bought of Squire BOONE Quest the 3rd: do you believe this to be the cabbin called for in my Entry of 500 acres on the South side of Tick Creek? Ans: I do believe it to be the same Quest the 4th: did Squire BOONE on 29th day of May in year one thousand seven hundred and eighty six take you into the field at my old Station to hunt for a curled Sugartree as he said to make gun Stocks? Ans: he did Ques the 5th: did he hunt through the field from tree to tree? Ans: he did Quest the 6th: did Squire Boone Stop when you were coming Back from the field Hunting the curled Sugartree and tell you what he had been after? Ans he did Quest the 7th: what did S. BOONE tell you he had been after? Ans he told me he had been hunting a Surgartree marked with S.◊ B a Beginning tree for Eli CLEAVLAND but said he it cannot be here, but I must be down on the big Run pointing towards the big run nearly a South West Course but said he I will make it off TYLOR if I can. Quest the 8th: did S. BOONE say that he expected that the Land would be lost meaning CLEAVLAND Entry. Ans he did Quest the 9th: did you hear Squire BOONE say on the day Jonathan BOONE Surveyed CLEAVLANDs Entry of 575 acres on the South side of Tick creek that CLEAVLAND then had his Bond in his possession obliging him to Locate the Land above mentioned on unappropriated Land? Ans I did Quest the 10th: did Squire BOONE say that is CLEAVLANDs was Lost meaning the above mentioned that he was to make it good? Ans: he did Quest the 11th: did I tell Squire BOONE when his Son Jonathan came to Survey the above mentioned Land to prove his Begining and to run his Land in the name of God? Ans: he said if he did that he could not run there meaning where he did run from Quest the 12th: did you hear RINGO say that for his Surveses he was to have fifty acres of the above mentioned Land? Ans I did Quest the 13th: did you hear me ask Squire BOONE if he would sware that the tree which grew on that Stump meaning the Stump which CLEAVLAND run his Survey from was CLEAVLANDs Begining tree? Ans he said he would not for all Kentucky and this Deponant further saith not Isham TALBOT William HALL Ezekiel TALBOT We do certify that on the fourth Tuesday in April 179_ we met at the place called the Indian painted tree and then and there took part of the within Deposition from thence to a place called BOONs cabbin which is called for in Robert TYLERs Entry of 500 acres and then and there took another part from thence to a place called CLEAVLANDs Begining of 575 acres in a field at TYLORs Station and there finished the same. We find at the place called BOONs cabbin a few logs remaining of the cabbin it stands within about twenty steps of a Spring and within about Seventy yards of where Benjamin DUNKIN now lives, the ____ Deposition taken in presence of David GORDIN and Nath____ GARRETT disinterested residenters of Shelby County Given under our hands the 26th day of April 1796 Ezekiel TALBOT Isham TALBOT Shelby County Sct May Court 1796 The within Deposition of William HALL and the Entry thereunder Written was returned and Ordered to be Recorded Test James CRAIG clk Transcribed by Patricia O'Connor p-oconnor@att.net File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ky/shelby/deeds/hall396gdd.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/kyfiles/