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House of Keys judgment in land dispute between Ellison and Shimin; related petitions

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September 28th 1764

Record of House of Keys proceedings at Castletown on 28 September 1764, containing a judgment reversing a Traverse Jury's verdict in a land dispute over Abbey farm land in the parish of Kirk German between William Ellison (plaintiff) and Matthew Shimin (defendant). The document also records resolutions on petitions regarding a disputed road and a case by Thomas Taylor.

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  • Richard Ambrose Stevenson
  • John Moore
  • George Moore
  • Thomas Moore
  • Thomas Quine
  • John Taubman
  • Hugh Cannahan
  • William Cloicas
  • Philip Moore
  • Thomas Christian
  • John Frissell
  • William Qualtrough
  • Thomas Radcliffe
  • Octavius Innes Heywood
  • Thomas Frighter
  • William Callow

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  • Several uncertain readings marked with [?], including a surname and one word partially illegible. Abbreviations common throughout (Def^t, Plt, Govern^r, etc.).

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  • English