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1 In a Court held for Kent County in the Province of Maryland at the Courthouse in the Town of Chester in said County on the Seventeenth Day of March and continued the Eighteenth & nineteenth days of the same Month in the Ninth year of the Dominion of Charles absolute Lord and prop.ry of the Provinces of Maryland and Avalon Lord Baron of Baltimore &c.a Annoq. Dom. 1723 Before
S.t Pauls parish afd in Kent County afd within the Jurisdiction of this Court did commit fornication with a Certain person to the Jurors afd unknown and did permit the same unknown person then and there to have Carnal knowledge of her body and to begett then and there a bastard Child on the body of her the Same Mary to the high Displeasure of almighty God to the Evil Example of all others in Such Case offending Contrary to the peace of the said Lord Proprietary that now is his Good rule and Government and against the form of the act of Assembly in that Case made and provided &c.a M. Howard Cler. pac. Testis George Hastings Constable On the back of the preceeding Indictment was Endors'd as foll viz.t a True Bill by Thomas Piner foreman and |
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