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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1760-1763
Volume 543, Page 9b   View pdf image
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           June Court                       1760                 9
Somerset fst Att A Court of his Lordship the Right Honrble Frederick Absolute Lord and Propry of
the Provinces of Maryland and Avalon Lord Baron of Baltemore &c held at Princes Ann Town the third
Tuesday of June being the Seventeenth day of the Same month Anno Dom. one thousand Seven hundred
and Sixty by his Said Lordships Justices the peace in the Same County to keep Assigned of whom were
present

Isaac Handy    Ephraim Wilson    Gentlemen
The Worshipfull Sampson Wheatly    Samuel Adams

Henry Waggaman    William Winder         His Lordships Justices

Joseph Gillis    Ephraim King
      John Dennis Sher.
   Thomas Jones    Thomas Hayward Jr Clk.
Whereupon the Court being Called Sat as above and Proceeded to Business in manner following Vizt

      Proclamation being made the sherriffe of Somserset County returned a
pannell of Orphans Jurors to Inquire &c. to wit, William Miles, Isaac Atkinson, Francis
White, William Furnis, Jonathan Tull, Robert Dashiell, Aaron Starling, John Collins,
Jarvis Ballard, Joseph Weatherly, Arnold Elzey, Mathias Coston, David Hopkins,
John Cottingham, Philip Covington, Joshua Hitch and John Broughton who being
severally called over by their Names do appear as above and were sworn and charged
and sent out to consider soon after the orphan Jurors afd so as afd Impannelled charged
and sworn returned here into Court and being again severally called over returned to
the Court here that they had not made any presentments thereupon the orphan
Jury afd. are Discharged &c.

Price a Negro of Outr. Horsey being not able to Labour is set tax free for the future &c
Pegg a Negro of    do. being not able to Labour is set tax free for the future &c.

Thomas Willin    Somrstt. To the Worshipfull Justices of Somrst County in Court Sitting the Petition
   Petition    of Thomas Willin Senr. Most Humbly Sheweth
That your Petitioner in Possession of Part of a Tract of Land Called & Known by the name of
Ignoble Quarter & the Bounds thereof being very Precarious your Petitioner therefore prays your
Worships to grand a Commission to th prove the Bounds of the afd. Land or the Bounds of
Any other Land on which the same may Depend and your Petitioner as in Duty Bound
will pray &c.                                                           Thomas Willin Senr
      Whereupon Came here into Court the aforesaid Petitioner in his proper person
& thereupon the petition afd. being read and heard & fully understood it is Considered by
the Court here that a Commission Issue to the afd. Thomas Willin Senr. as by the
Petition afd. is praid & that Geo: Gale, Geo: Dashiell, Geo: Dashiell J. & Dauty Collier of
                                                                                   same
Somerset County Gent. be Commissioners and Execute the ^ within^ Commission Accord:
:ing to Act of Assembly in such Case provided &c

Thomas Rowe    To the Wordshipfull the Justices of Somerset County Court in Court now
   Petition    Sitting The Humble Petition of Thomas Rowe sheweth that your
Petitioner is & has been for many years in such a bad and infirm state of Health &
Weakness of Body and Constitution as renders him uncapable of doing much towards
supporting himself he therefore prays your Worships that he may be made Tax free and
your Petitioner as in Duty bound shall always pray &c         Thomas Rowe
Whereupon Came here into Court the afd. Petitioner in his proper person and thereupon the
Petition afd. being read & heard & fully understood it is Considered by the Court here that the
afd. Thomas Rowe be for the future discharged from paying of Taxes as by the Petition
afd. is praid &c.


 

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