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March Court 1730
185 March being the Sixteenth day of Said Month Anno Dom. Seventeen hundred and thirty That the afd Loveday Turner have Nine Lashes on her bare back tell the blood appear as a punishment for the Crime afd And also pay the Sum of two hundred and Ninety Pounds Tobacco Cost accrueing on the premisses afd to the officers of this Court It is also Considered by the Justices afd the Same day last mentioned that the Sherrif of Kent County take the afd Loveday Turner into his custody and Execute the punishment in the Judgment afd Specified and afterwards to bring her into Court againe Of which precept to wit Joseph Young gent high Sherrife of Kent County makes return on the day & year last Said that he hath Executed the punishment in the afd Judgment and also hath here the Said Loveday Turner before the Court Ordered by the Court here That Surety be gave for the fees afd thereupon Came into Court William Eland of the Same County County planter and did assinne the afd fees Thereupon the Same Loveday was disch.d Ordered by the Court here That the Same Loveday Turner prove the begetter of the Child afd Thereupon She proves a Certain Edward Harris a Taylor belonging to Cap.t Laramore was the begetter of her afd Child &c.a
afd in the the County afd within the Jurisdiction of this Court Did Commit fornication with a Certain negro person ^to^ the Jurors afd unknown & did permit the same unknown Negro person then & there to have Carnal knowledge of her body & to beget then & there a Basterd Mulatto Child on the body of her the same Mary to the high Displeasure of Almighty Good to the Evil Example of all Others in such Case offending Contrary to the peace & of the said Lord Propry that now is his good Rule & Government & against y.e form of the act of Assembly in that Case made & Provided T francis Cler. pac. on |
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