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November Court 1762 193 Thereupon it is commanded the sheriff of somerset county that he should cause to come before His Lordships Justices of the next court to be held at princess Ann Town the third tuesday of March then next following twelve &c by whom &c and who &c to Recognize &c because &c Att which day here came as well George Hayward Gent his said Lordships Attorney who for his said Lordship in this part prosecuteth as the afd. Thomas Dixon in his proper person and the sheriff of the county afd. did not send thereof the writ &c Therefore as before it is commanded the sheriff of somerset county that he should cause to come before his Lordships Justices of the next court to be held at princess Ann Town the third tuesday of June then next following twelve &c by whom &c and who &c to Recognize &c because &c Att which day here came as well George Hayward Gent his said Lordships Attorney who for his said Lordship in this part prosecuteth as the afd. Thomas Dixon in his Proper Person and the sheriff of the county afd. did not send thereof the writt &c Therefore as before it is commanded the sheriff of somerset county that he should cause to come before his Lordships Justices of the next court to be held at princess Ann Town the third tuesday of August then next following twelve &c by whom &c and who &c to Recognize &c because &c Att which day here came as well George Hayward Gent his said Lordships Attorney who for his said Lordship in this part prosecuteth as the afd Thomas Dixon in his proper person and the sheriff of the county afd. did not send thereof the writt &c Therefore as before it is commanded the sheriff of somerset county that he should cause to come before his Lordships Justices of the next court to be held at princess Ann Town the third tuesday of November then next following twelve &c by whom &c and who &c to Recognize &c because &c Att which day here came as well George Hayward Gent his said Lordships Attorney who for his said Lordship in this part prosecuteth as the afd. Thomas Dixon in his proper person and the sheriff to witt Ephraim Wilson returned the afd. writt of Venire facias & the names of the jurors in all things served and Executed and the Jurors of that Jury thereof Impannelled being call -ed to witt William Fleming William Venables John Pollit Southy Whittington William Fountain John Anderson Isaiah Tilman Jessey King John Kellum Jonathan Pollit Jarvis Ballard Matthew Cannon Came who to say the truth of the pre- -misses afd. being Elected tryed and Sworn upon their Oath say that the afd. Thomas Dixon is not guilty of the premisses in the information mentioned above upon him imposed in manner and form as the afd. Thomas Dixon above by pleading hath alledged Therefore it is considered that the afd. Thomas Dixon of and from the information afd. be discharged and goe thereof without day &c
seven hundred and sixty one Before Isaac Handy Esqr and Others his associates the said Lord propry his Justices of the same county court and for the same Lord propry doth give the same Justices here to understand and be informed that that the minister Vestrymen and Church Wardens of Coventry Parish in the county afd. the first day of August which was in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and fifty nine at the parish afd. in the county afd. and within the Jurisdiction of this court suspecting then and there of Lewdness and Incontinency Ann Lord late of the parish and county afd. Spinster and Thomas Dixon of the parish and county afd. planter did cause notice to be given to the said Ann and the said Thomas to appear before them the said Minister Vestry -men and Church Wardens on the first day of September in the Year last mentioned at a Vestry then held by them in the parish Church of the said Parish in the county afd. and that the said Ann and Thomas then and there did appear before the said Minister Vestrymen and Church Wardens the said Ann and Thomas haveing on the first day of Sep -tember in the year last mentioned notice given them so to do and the same Ann and Thomas being acquainted then and there by the Minister Vestry and Church Wardens of the suspicion that was had of their the said Ann & Tho -mas 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 Ann and Thomas haveing not Excused or Acquitted themselves of the grounds of such suspicion in such manner as the said Minister Vestry and Church Wardens did app -rove and the afd. Attorney of the said Lord propry doth give the said Justices here further to understand and be informed that the said Ann Lord of the parish afd. in the county afd. did afterwards to wit on 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 afd. in the county afd. within the Jurisdiction of this court contrary to and after the admonition Cohabit with and frequent the company of the said Thomas contrary to the act of assembly in such case made and provided and against the peace of the said Lord propry that now is his good Rule and government & so forth Whereupon the same Atty of the same Lord propry prays Advice of the court here in the premisses & that due process of Law may in this part be made against the said Ann to answer of & upon the premisses & so forth Thereupon |
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1760-1763
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