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March Court 1725 at the publick Whipping post Nine lashes well laid on her bare back till the blood appears as a punishment for her afd Crime of Comitting fornication as also that She pay the Sume of three hundred and two pounds of Tobacco Costs Accrueing on the premisses afd to the officers of this Court Jam.s Smith Clk Ordered by the Court here at this Day to wit the Day & year last mentioned that the Sherf of Kent County take the afd Elizabeth Paskell into his Custody and Execute the Lashes for the Judgment afd Specified and afterwards bring her into Court again of which s.d precept the s.d Sher to wit Fred.k Hanson Gent high Sherf of Kent County makes Return on the Day and year last Said that he hath Executed the s.d Judgment and also hath here the s.d Eliz.a Paskell before the Court Ordered by the Court ^here y.t^ the afd Elizabeth Paskell prove the begett.r of her Child who Declares on the holy Evangilist of Almighty God that M.r John Evans is the Father of the Child In the Indictment afd mentioned Ordered that the Sherf of Kent County take y.e afd Eliz.a Paskell into his Custody for her appear.c & The s.d Elizabeth Paskell be Comitted unto y.e Sherfs Custody for her ap.rc and good Behav.r as afd ^&^ now having ap.rd She is Discharged from s.d Committm.t
thereof to this Court here on the third Teusday of March being the fifteenth Day of s.d Month Anno Dom. Seventeen hundred and twenty the Day of Return of s.d writt Endorst as foll.s viz.t Cepi Corpus p Fred.k Hanson Sherf Kent County fs.t The Jurors for the Right Honourable the Lord prop.ry that now is for the Body of Kent County afd upon their oath do present that John Johnson of Saint pauls parish in the County afd planter the |
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