The Same
@	Somerset fst be it Remembered that George Hayward Gent Attry of the Right Honble the Lord propry that
Thos. Dixon	now is who for the same Lord propry in this part prosecuteth doth come here into the county court

of the same Lord prop^ry held for somerset county af^d. to witt at princess Ann Town in the same county the Eighteenth day
of August in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred Before Isaac Handy Esq^r and other his associates the said
Lord prop^ry his Justices of the same county court and for the same Lord prop^ry doth give the same Justices here to un derstand and be informed that the Minister Vestrymen and Church Wardens of Coventry parish in the county af^d. the first
day of August which was in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Fifty nine at the parish af^d. in the
county af^d. and within the Jurisdiction of this court suspecting then and there of Lewdness and Incontinency Tho
-mas Dixon Late of the Parish and county af^d. planter then and there being a married man and Ann Lord of the parish
and county afs^d Spinster did cause notice to be given To the said Thomas and the said Ann To appear before them
the said Minister Vestry and Church Wardens on the first day of September in the Year last mentioned at a Vestry
then held and that the said Thomas and Ann then & there did appear before the said Minister Vestry and Church
Wardens the said Thomas and Ann haveing on the first day of September in the Year last mentioned Notice given
them so to do and the same Thomas and Ann being acquainted then and there       by the Minister Vestry and Chur
-ch Wardens of the suspicion that was had of their the said Thomas and Ann Incontinency and were admonished then
and there by the same minister Vestry and Church Wardens from accompaning together and frequenting the company
of each other the said Thomas and Ann having not Excused or acquitted themselves of the grounds of such suspicion
in such manner as the said Minister Vestry and Church Wardens did approve and the afs^d Attorney of the said Lord
prop^ry doth give the said Justices here further to understand and be informed that the said Thomas Dixon of the parish
af^d. in the county af^d. did afterwards to wit the first day of March in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred
and sixty one and divers Times as well before as since at the parish af^d. in the county af^d. within the Jurisdiction of this
court Contrary to and after the admonition Cohabit with and frequent the company of the said Ann Contrary to the act
of assembly in such case made & provided and against the peace of the said Lord prop^ry that now is his good Rule and
government Whereupon the same Att^y of the same Lord prop^ry prays advice of the court here in the premisses and that due
process of Law may in this part be made against the Thomas to answer of and upon the premisses & so forth
Thereupon it is commanded the sheriff of somerset county that he should take the af^d. Thomas Dixon if he should be fou
-nd in his Bailywick and him should safe keep so that he might have his body before the Justices of his Lordships
county court of somerset to be held at princess Ann Town the third tuesday of November Anno Dom one thousand seven
hundred and sixty one to answer unto his said Lordship concerning the information af^d.       Att which day here came
the af^d. Thomas Dixon in his proper person and had a hearing of the Information af^d. saith that he is not thereof guilty and puts
himself upon the country and George Hayward Gen^t his Lordships Attorney who for his said Lordship in this part prosecuteth likewise

Thereupon