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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1760-1763
Volume 543, Page 179   View pdf image
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          November Court            1762              179
Wilfull Burning of Any Dwelling house or Out house Contiguous to and used with Any Dwelling house
or Any Other Out house wherein there Shall be any Person or Any Goods or Merchandizes Tobacco Indian Corn
or Fodder and all other Capitall Offences done or perpetrated by Any Negro or Other Slave and Likewise all
Consulting Advising and Conspiring of Negroes and Other Slaves to Rebell or Raise any Insurrection or to
Murder or Poison Any person or to Ravish any White Woman or to Attempt to burn any Dwelling house
or Out house Contiguous to or Used therewith and of all trespasses Engrossings Regratings Forestallings and
Extortions Whatsoever and of all other Misfeazances and Offences whatsoever of which Justices of our peace
Lawfully may or Ought to Enquire by Whomsoever or howsoever in our County afd. done or Committed or which
may hereafter happen to be done or Committed and also of all those who in our County afd. in Riotous Manner
have Gone or Rode or Shall hereafter presume to go or Ride with Armed force Against our peace to the disturbance
of the Kings Subjects and of all Such who in our County afd. have Lain or Shall hereafter presume to Lie
in Wait to Maim or kill Any of the Kings Subjects and also of all Ordinary keepers and Other persons who
have Offended or hereafter Shall presume to Offend in the Abuse of Weights or Measures Against the Acts of
Assembly for the Common Good and profit now in this province made and Used and also of the Sheriff
Bailifs Constables and Other Officers who have or Shall hereafter misbehave themselves in the Execution
of their Offices or have been Remiss or Negligent in the Execution thereof or Shall hereafter happen So to be
within our County afd. and of all and Every the Articles Matters and things whatsoever howsoever or by
Whomsoever in our County afd. done or Committed or that Shall hereafter happen to be done or Committed
Concerning the premisses or Any of them and to inspect all Indictments before you or any of You taken or to
be taken or before our Late Justices of the peace within our Said County had and taken and not yet determined
And process thereon Against All or Any person or persons so Indicted or Which Shall hereafter
happen to be Indicted within our County afd. to Make and Continue until they Shall be taken or Surrender
themselves or be Outlawed and to hear and determine all and Every the Felonies petty Treasons murders
Rapes upon White Women Wilfull burning of Any Dwelling house or Out house Contiguous to
and used with any Dwelling house or Any other Out house wherein there Shall be any person or any Goods
or Merchandizes Tobacco Indian Corn or Fodder and all other Capitall Offences done or perpetrated by any
Negro or Other Slaves and Likewise all Consulting Advising and Conspiring of Negroes and other Slaves
to Rebell or Raise Any Insurrection or to Murder or poison any person or to Ravish Any White
Woman or to Attempt to Burn any Dwelling house or Out house Contiguous to or used therewith
Trespasses Forestallings Regratings Riots Indictments and all other the Matters afd. According to the
Laws Customs and Directions of the Acts of Assembly afd. So far forth as they provide and where they
are Silent According to the Laws Statutes and Reasonable Customs of England as used and practised
within this province and the Said Delinquents and Every of them to Chastise and punish by Fines
Ransoms Amerciaments Forfeitures and Otherwise According to the Laws Customs and directions of
the Act of Assembly afd. So far forth as they provide and Where they are Silent According to the Laws
Statutes and Reasonable Customs of England as used and practised within this province But we will
not that you proceed in Any of the Cases afd. to take Life or Member Except of Negroes and Other Slaves but that
in Every Such Case you Send the prisoners with their Indictments and the whole Maters depending before you
to Our Justices of Assize Nisi prius and Goal delivery at the Next Court of Oyer and Terminer to be held
for our Said County be it Whensoever or Wheresoever to be holden there to be Tryed And we Command You
And Every of You Diligently to intend the keeping the peace Acts of Assembly Laws Customs and Statutes
afd. and all and Every the premisses and that at Your County Courts you make Inquisition and hear and
Determine as afd. doing therein what to Justice Appertains According to the Laws Customs and directions
of the Acts of Assembly afd. So far forth as they provide and Where they are Silent According to the
Laws Statutes and Reasonable Customs of England as used and practised within this province
And further we do Constitute Ordain and Appoint you the Said Benjamin Tasker Charles
Hammond Samuel Chamberlain, Phillip Thomas, Edward Lloyd Richd. Lee Benedict Calvert

Robert                       



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