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Kent County Criminal Court Records, 1728-1734
Volume 567, Page 286   View pdf image (33K)
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286                                        March Court 1731

    And the afd William Sowerby makes the Certificate as foll. viz.t  These may Certify
that haveing rec.d the within mentioned goods Do remitt all that Shall accrue to me
by the within named Blakes feloniously takeing them as Witness my hand this
10.th day of Sep.r 1731                    William Sowerby            The above was
delivered by the Same Justice that Deliv.rd the Confession of the afd William
Blake    being thereof endorsed  Thereupon y.e Same Blake was not Com.d for y.e ^four fold afd^

    Ordered by this Court here on the third tuesday of March being the twenty first
day of Said Month Anno Dom. Seventeen hundred and thirty one  That Joseph Young
Gent high Sherf of K.t County keep the afd William Blake in Safe Custody untill
he Shall Satisfie the cost and Charges afd accrued on the premisses being the
Sum of seven hundred and twenty three pounds of Tobacco

    Ordered his Examination be fild which is as foll. viz.t  William Sowerby
belonging to the Ship Harbert haveing brought before me the Subscriber one of
his Lordships Justices of the peace for the County of Kent a Certain W.m Blake of the
Same County and the Same Sowerby alledgeing that the Said Blake had Stole
from him and from on Boa^r^d a Sloop belonging to the Said Ship lying and being
in the County afd the following Goods viz.t one pare of Mans Cloath Breches two
Ditto Jacketts one Good Garlin Holland ^mans^ Shirt one p.r of mens Pumps one Double
worsted Mans Cap one good Checkerd Lining mans Shirt one pare of mens
worsted hose of the Goods of the afd William Sowerby        The Said William
Blake being by me the Subscriber Examined in relation to the premisses
Sayth that he took from on board the Said Sloop the foregoing Goods and that the
Said Goods were neither Sold nor Given to him by any person and the Said
Examinant further Saith that no person was on Board the Sloop when he
entered her and took the Said Goods And that ^he^ the Examinant had no right
to the Said Goods and further the Examinant Sayth that the Said Goods
belongs to the afd William Sowerby
                                                                    William         Blake
                                                                                mark
On the back of the afd Examination was endorsed as followeth viz.t
Kent County Sep.r 10: 1731  Then the within Examination taken by me
one of the Justices of the County afd
                                                                        C.s Hynson

T. f.
 His Lordship
        ag.t
William Graves Jun.r
 Kent County fs Memorandum that Tench Francis
Gentl attorney of the right honourable the Lord prop.ry
that now is for the County afd who for the Same Lord prop.ry
in this part prosecuteth doth come here into Kent County
Court before William Frisby Esq.r and his associates his Lordships Justices of the Same
County Court to wit at Chester Town in the County afd the                        day of
March Anno Dom. Seventeen hundred thirty and one and for the Same Lord
prop.ry doth give the Court here to understand and be informed that William Graves
                                                                                                                            Jun.r




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