John Cox
Lycence &	John Cox of somerset county Innholder comes here into court in his proper person and prays that
Recognize to	he may be permitted to keep an ordinary or house of Entertainment in the county afd. at his
keep Tavern	own house in princess Ann Town for the use and conveniency of Travellers and strangers

as to them respectively shall seem meet which is by the court here unto him granted he giveing secu-
-rity as the Law directs to keep good Rules and orders in his ordinary or house of Entertainment as af^d.
      Whereupon the said John Cox Together with W^m. Robinson of somerset county planter his Secu
-rity both present here in court in their proper persons acknowledged themselves Indebted unto his
Lordship the Right Hon^rble the Lord proprietary of the province of Maryland in thirty pounds Cur^t
money of said province of their bodies goods or Chattels Lands and Tenements joyntly and severally to the
use of his said Lordship his heirs and successors to be made & levied if it happen that the said John
Cox do not keep Good Rules and orders and do suffer Idle Loose and disorderly persons to tipple
game & commit disorders or Irregularities in his Ordinary or house of Entertainment contrary to
the true Intent & meaning of the act of assembly in such case provided &^c.

Joseph Weatherly	To the Worshipfull the Justices of somserset county in court now Judicially sitting
Petition	The petition of Joseph Weatherly humbly sheweth That your petitioner has built a grist

Mill below the upper wadeing place of Rewastico Creek which wading place is in the main Road
Leading from Quantico Creek to Barron Creek and as the said Road now as it goes prevents your peti
-tioner from daming up a head of water sufficient for the use & service of the said Mill without great
-ly Incommoding Travellers &^c. at the said upper wading place Now your petitioner humbly pray
-eth that he may have leave from your worships to turn the said Road leading from Quantico to Bar
-ren Creek over your petitioners said Grist Mill Dam instead of over the said upper wading place of
Rewastico where it now goes this your petitioner is the more embolden to ask as the Lands he wants
to turn the Road on are his own and as the said change of the Road is in general agreeable to the
Neighbourhood as signified by their subjoining their names hereto    And your petitioner as in du
-ty Bound shall ever pray &^c                                          Joseph Weatherly and others
Whereupon Came here into court the af^d. petitioners in their proper persons and thereupon the petiti
-on af^d. being Read & Heard and fully understood it is considered by the court here that Ephraim
King and Benjⁿ Venables Lay of the new Road & Make Report to the court and that the new Road be
made as good & passable as the old Road and that the old Road Lay open untill the New Road be
compleat

To the Worshipfull the Justices of somerset county now in court setting y^e humble petition of George

George Collier	Collier most humbly sueth that whereas yt main Road now Runes through my corn field
petition	to the grate damamge of your petitioner for though I keep good gates at each side of my corn

field yet many times y^e said gates is left open and my said feald Exposed to any thing that Happens their
for itt is in a very publick place and some distance from the place where I Live And to prevent Any
further damamge that I may sustain by the said Road Running through my field and to ease Trave
-lers of opening gates I have cleard and cossawayd a very good Road on the out side of my fence which is but
Eighty seven yards further where itt may always Remain and be no Damamge to me nor Any other Body and

your