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Kent County Criminal Proceedings, 1724-1728
Volume 548, Page 229   View pdf image (33K)
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                                November Court 1726                                        229

afd in Kent County afd within the Jurisdiction of this Court did Committ
fornication with a Certain person tot he Jurors afd unknown and did permitt
the same unknown person then and there have Carnall knowledge of
her body and to begett then and there a bastard Child on the body of her the
same Elizabeth To the high Displeasure of Almighty God to the Evill Example
of all others in such Case offending contrary to the peace of the said Lord
prop.ry his good rule and Government and against the peace ^form^ of the Act
of Assembly in that Case made and provided
Test Griffith Jones                                        T francis Cler. pac.

    On the back of the preceeding Ind.t was as foll viz: a true bill by Sam.l Wickes foreman

    And the afd Elizabeth Clark in her proper person Comes and saith that
she Cannott gainsay the Indictment afd so as afd against her brought nor
but that she is guilty of the premisses above upon her Imposed as by the
afd Indictment it is alledged and there upon Submitts to the Court

    Therefore it is Considered by the Justices here this fifteenth Day of Nov.r
Anno Dom. seventeen hundred twenty & six that the afd Elizabeth Clark
pay the sum of thirty Shillings Current Money of Maryland as a ffine
for her afd Crime of Committing ffornication in form afd Confest to be
applyed for the use of this County according to Act of Assembly &c.a As
also the sum of four hundred and Seven pounds of Tobacco Costs accrueing
on the premisses afd to the Officers of this Court
                                                                                Jam.s Smith Clk

    The afd Elizabeth being ordered to prove the begitter of her Child declares
on her Oath adminestred to her on the Holy Evangilists ^of Almighty God^ that Jacob Vanbeber
of Ceecill County is the ffather of her last base born Child which she was
delivered off

    Christopher Bateman Jun.r and Nehemiah Powell both of Kent
County planters and present here in Court in their proper persons under take
and either of them undertakes Joyntly and Severally for the afd Eliz.a Clark
that she the said Elizabeth shall keep this County of Kent clear from all
Damages or Costs that may hereafter accrue on Acco.t of the afd Child in the
Indictm.t afd Specefyed

    John Gresham of Kent County Gentl and present here in Court in his pper
person assumes to pay all the ffees in the Judgment afd Specefyed amounting
to four hundred and seven pounds of Tobacco and thereupon the said
Elizabeth Clarke is therefrom acquitted


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