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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1760-1763
Volume 543, Page 223   View pdf image
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                          Att a court of his Lordship the Right Honourable Frederick
Absolute Lord and Proprietary of the Provinces of Maryland and Avalon Lord Baron
of Baltemore &c. held at Princes Ann Town the third Tuesday of June being the Twenty
first day of the Same Month Anno Dom. one thousand Seven hundred and Sixty three
by his Said Lordships Justices the peace in the Same County to keep Assigned of whom
were present
The Worshipfull            Sampson Wheatly    Gentlemen

    Joseph Gilliss           His Lordships
Eph: Wilson Shef.    Thomas Holbrook                     Justices
   Thomas Hayward Jur Clk
Whereupon the Court being Called Sat as above Proceeded to Business in Manner
following Vizt
                          His Lordship Commission of the peace being produced here in Court was
Openly Read as follows Vizt.
Frederick Absolute Lord and Proprietary of the Provinces of Maryland and Avalon
Lord Baron of Baltemore &c. To Benjamin Tasker, Charles Hammond, Samuel Chamberlain
Edward Lloyd Richard Lee Benedict Calvert Robert Jenkins Henry Daniel Dulany
Stephen Bordley, John Ridout and Charles Goldsborough Esquires William Hayward
Sampson Wheatly, Joseph Gillis Samuel Adams William Winder, Ephraim Wilson
Ephraim King, Thomas Jones, John Dennis, Thomas Holbrook Planner Williams
William Adams, David Polk Thomas Moor and Isaiah Tilman of Somerset County
Gentlemen Greeting know ye that we have Assigned you and Every of You Jointly and
Severally our Justices to keep our peace within our County of Somerset and to do Equal Law
and Right to all the Kings Subjects Rich and Poor According to the Laws Customs and
Directions of the Acts of Assembly of this Province 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 for the Conservation of the peace and Quiet Rule and
Government of the Kings Subjects within our Said County and to Chastise and Punish
all or Any Person or Persons offending Against the Said Acts Laws Statutes and Customs
or Any of them According to the directions thereof and to Call before you or Any of you
all those who in our County afd. Shall threaten to do any bodily harm to Any of the Kings
Subjects or to burn their houses or Otherwise break our peace and Misbehave themselves
to find Sufficient Security of the peace and good behaviour to us and the Said Subjects
And if they Shall Refuse to find Such Security that then you Cause them to be Committed
into Safe Custody untill they Shall be delivered by due Course of Law from thence Also we
have Assigned you and Every three or more of you of whom we will you the Said Benjamin
Tasker, Charles Hammond, Samuel Chamberlain, Edward Lloyd, Richard Lee, Benedict
Calvert, Robert Jenckins Henry, Daniel Dulany, Stephen Bordly, John Ridout Charles
Goldsborough William Hayward, Sampson Wheatly, Joseph Gillis Samuel Adams William
Winder and Ephraim Wilson or One of you always to be one our Justices to Enquire by the Oaths
of Good and Lawfull Men of our County afd. by whom the truth of the Premisses may be

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