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March ye 10th. 1691/2. ( 185 ) - - - - - - - - - - Martin Trentam having attended the Court Sixteen dayes in a Suit depending betwixt his Maties and Stephen: Page and Bridgett his wife and his Sonn & Daughter & Margrett Kenneday who humbly craveth Order for the Same. March the 10th 91/2 Sworn the day above mentioned before me James Round - recordat? ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Ordered That Samuel: Worthington appear to answer Complain of John: Brown being One of the Petty Jury attending this Court, and by the said Worthington affronted, whereupon being examined the sd Worthington Confest in Court to have said Some words agt ye sd Brown though not designedly to impeach him for any Crime done or Comitted in the Jury or touching his Oath or Office of a Juror . ___________ - - - - - - - - - - remitted ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ mr. James Sangster Attorney for Capt. William: Whittington this day in Open Court Confessed judgmt for Seaven hundred ninety Six pounds of tobacco due to Samuel: Wilson . _______ - - - - - - - - - the Courts adjourned till tomorrow 9 a Clock At a Court held by their Maties Justices of the Peace for the County of Somerset in ye Province of Maryland the 11th: day of March Anno. Domini 1691/2. _______ - - - - - ________ Comrs. Present Coll. David Browne. mr ffrancis Jenckins. Majr Robert: King. mr James: Round in Court were } mr. Samuel: Hopkins. mr George: Layfield. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Their Maties Somerset Sc. The Jurors for their Maties being Sworn upon the holy Evangelist Contra. } at a Grand Jury held the Second tuesday in 9ber last past do present & find Tho: Jones: Gent that Thomas: Jones Gent One of their Maties Justices of the Peace for this County ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ notwithstanding of his Oath and allegiance to their Maties, for ye true & impartial admn of Justice, and preservation of their Maties Peace at Animessex in the sd hundred And within the Jurisdiction of this Court, of Sarah: Davis the wife of Thomas Davis Planter, did take Certain Bonds for the behaviour & preservation of the peace, and by Recognizance, the said Sarah did bind to appear the next County Court to answer what should be Objected agt the said Sarah.by Jno: Hopworth. Complainant, and to be of the good behaviour and abearing in the meanwhile to all their Maties Liege people of this Province, but especially to the said John: Hopworth, which said Recognizance so taken the sd Tho Jones not regarding his duty or the Law of the Land the same did Conceal from the knowledge of their Maties Comrs in Such Cases authorized for Examination of Criminal Causes. but Secretly and Clandestinly ye said bonds of Behaviour and peace did Surrender to the said Sarah: Davis, and her Securities whereby the said Sarah was - Incouraged to break the peace and behaviour within One month after ye said taking of the bonds, by wch offence and arbitrary power of taking & Surrendering Recognizance at pleasure, the Laws are Subverted & ye Subjects endangered & evill dissafected persons Encouraged to mischief without punishment Therefore their Maties Attorney Saith that the premises Considered agt the said Thomas Jones he ought to Suffer ye pains and punishments |
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1691-1692
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