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March Court 1724 And the afd Ann Spray in her proper person Comes and Defends the force and Injury when &c.a and Saith that She Cannot gainsay but that She is guilty of Committing fornication as by the s.d Indictment it is alledged & thereupon Submitts to the Court And the s.d Ann being ordered to prove the father of her Child It is made appear that She is a Convict And that her time is not Compleated wch She Confesses thereupon it is adjudged that her Oath be not Good in Law Therefore it is Considered by the Justices here this twentyeth Day of March Anno Dom. Seventeen hundred and twenty four that the afd Ann Spray Receive at the publick whiping post twenty one lashes well laid on her bare back till the blood appear as a punishm.t for her afd Crime of Committing fornication in form afd Confest as also that She pay the Sume of two hundred & Sixty Seven pounds of Tobacco Costs Accrueing on the premisses afd to the officers of this Court Jam.s Smith Clk Ordered that the Sherf of Kent County take y.e afd Ann Spray into his Custody and Execute the Lashes in the Judgment afd Specified, of which precept the s.d Sherf to wit Fred.k Hanson Gent High Sherr of Kent County now here at this Day to wit the Day and year afd makes Return thereof in these words thereon Endorst viz.t Executed pine Fred.k Hanson Sherr Ordered that the afd Ann Spray after the Expiration of her present Service Serve her Master Nathaniel Ricketts four Months for line Charges and trouble in bringing her to Bed & Disgrace of his family &c.a Ordered y.e Nathaniel Ricketts ^be allowed in y.e next Levey^ ten Shill Curr.t money p Month from the twelth Day of Feb.ry last to Novemb.r Court next Ensueing for keeping and Maintaining y.e afd Ann Sprays Child Ordered that y.e afd Ann Spray Return to her Masters Service and that She be Delivered up to the Court at y.e Expiration
of her time to Satisfythe Charges the County hath Expended on her account |
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