Talbot County Court Proceedings, 1662-1674.





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    Court hath therefor ordered that hee be forthwith Returned into Liber BR
    the Sheriffs hands ales Custody to be sent doune to the next Pro- No. 2
    vincall Court together with all the Evidences and Examinations.

     The depotition of Henery Wharton aged Twenty Two yeares or
    thereabout sworne and Examined in open Court.
     Saith That Being att the house of Francis Carpender house when
    his servant Samuell Yeoungman was dead and your Deponant stand
    ing by when the Carpenders were tying his tooes, hee saw one of
    his Eares Bleed, and asked the said Carpender how his Eare Came
    to bleede, and hee said that he had given him A Phillip oEare the day that hee died and further Saith Nott       t p. 47)

     The Depotition of Edw: Fuliward aged Twenty flue yeares or
    there abouts sworne & Examined in open Court.
     Saith That being att Francis Carpenders house hee saw his ser
    vant Samuell Yeoungmans head bleedeing and your deponant asked
    how it Came soe, for hee bleede from sun sett till Two houers within
    night, and the said Carpender told your deponant that hee broak
    his head with A broaken stick, and your deponant dressing the wound
    found the skull beare, and about three weekes after your Deponant
    Came againe to the house and found the said Yeoungman setting by
    the Morter with his face all bloody, and the said Carpender told
    your Deponant that hee stuck him on the Eare with A small stick
    that day, and the next day hee dyed and further Saith Nott

     Wee of the Jury haueing viewed the Corps of Samuell Yeoungman
    and finding A Depression in the Cranenum in on place, and another
    wound where all the musels flesh was Corrupted, and withall finding
    Corrupt blood betweene the Dura and piawater, and the braine &
    severall other brusses in the head and body therefor our virdict is
    that for want of Looking after the abouesaid wounds, were the
    Cause of his death Tho: Goddard Churgon foreman

     Whereas presentment was formerly Brought to this Court by the
    Counstable of Chester hundred for John Rice and Matha Chessill
    for Committing fornication, the said Matha haueing now taken her
    Oath that the Child is the said Rices and that hee gott it, and the
    Court haue ordered that the said John Rice doe father the said Child
    and pay flue hundred pounds of Tobacco to the Lord Propriatory;
    and it is further ordered that the said Matha shall Receiue thirty
    Lashes well Laid upon her bare back.

    William Bagley planff
                In an action of Defimation
    Elizabeth Smith def
     To the Worship full Commissioners for Talbott County the humble
    petition of William Bagley.