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November Court 1726
223 such Case made and provided &c.a Wherefore the same Attorney of the said Lord prop.ry prayeth the advice said Lord proprietary And against the afd Katharine to Answer unto the said Lord prop.ry of and upon the premisses &c.a T francis Clk pac. And the afd Katharine in her proper pson Comes and Saith that she is in no Sort guilty of the premisses upon her Imposed as by the afd Informon it is alledged and there of she putteth herself upon the Country Katharine Banks in p.a pson And he who followeth for the Lord prop.ry in like manner saith she is guilty T francis p Lord Proprietary Thereupon Command was given to the Sherrf of Kent County that he Imediately cause to Come here twelve &c.a by whom &c.a who neither &c.a to recognize &c.a because as well &c.a of which said precept the said Sherrf to wit John Gresham Gentl now here at this Day to wit the fifteenth Day of November Anno Dom. seventeen hundred twenty and six makes return that he hath here ready twelve &c.a as by his precept he was Commanded And now here afterwards to wit the Day and year last Mentioned Come againe the afd Lord prop.ry by Tench Francis his Clk of Indictments afd as also the said Katharine Banks in her pper person And the Jurors of that Jury being Impanelled and Called likewise Came to wit Christopher Hall John Woodall, Robert Dunn Jun.r, Benjamin Ric^k^aud, Thomas Joce, Will.m Dean, Jeremiah Covington, Charles Smith, Nicholas Reily, James Wyatt, John Blackiston & John Meccay who being duly Elected tryed and Sworn to say the truth in the premisses upon their Oath do say that the afd Katharine Banks is guilty of fornication with a Negro as by the afd Information it is alledged And by Christopher Hall their foreman allso say Therefore it is Considered by the Justices here to wit at the Court house in the Town of Chester in said County this fifteenth Day of November Anno Dom. seventeen hundred twenty and Six that the afd Katharine Banks be a Servant and Serve for the space and tern of Seven Years for her afd Crime of having a bastard Child by a Negro of the Verdict afd ^and^ according to the form of the Act of Assembly in that Case |
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