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June Court 1733 County Court of the Same Lord prop.ry of Kent County aforesaid to wit in the Court house in Chester Town in the County afd the third tuesday in March Anno Domini Seventeen hundred thirty and two before William Frisby Esq.r and his associates his Said Lordships Justices of the Same County Court and for the Same Lord proprietarie doth give the Same Justices here to understand and be informed that at a Court of the Said Lord proprietarie held for Kent County afd in the Court house in Chester Town in the Same County the third tuesday in November Anno Domini one thousand Seven hundred thirty and one before the Same William Frisby and his associates then Justices of the Said Lord prop.ry of the afd County Court John Rogers of Shrewsbury parish in the County afd planter then and there being an Inhabitant and Resident within the parish and County afd within the Jurisdicion of this Court and a fit man to Execute the office of an overseer of the Common high Roads from the branch near the late Dwelling house of Lambert Wilmer deceased to the bridge formerly called Thomas Windalls and from Wilsons branch halfway to the plantation of William Comegys Jun.r and from Sasafras upper ferry to Salters branch and to make a bridge over the Same branch in the County afd, being Lawfully and in due manner according to the form of the Act of Assembly in Such case made and provided was appointed by the Said William Frisby and his associates overseer of the Said Roads and bridge last mentioned in the County and Jurisdicion afd being (as by the Said Record thereof in the Same County Court there being more folly is manyfest and appeareth) whereof the afd John Rogers afterward to wit the Said third tuesday in November in the year last mentioned at the County afd his Lawful Notice and the Same John Rogers the due Execution of the said office of an overseer of the Roads aforesaid upon himself then and there did take and the Same office from the Day and Year last mentioned until the day of the Exhibition of this Information did bear and Execute to wit at Kent County afd within the Jurisdicion afd and the afd Tench Francis doth further give the Same Justices here to understand and be informed that the Roads afd from the first day of December Anno Dom. Seventeen hundred thirty and one and always afterward untill the day of the Exhibition of this Information at the County afd within the Jurisdicion afd were and Still are in great Decay for want of repairing amending clearing and grubing of the Same Roads So that the liege Subjects of our Sovereign Lord the King that now is in by and through the the Roads afd with their horses Carts and Carriages to go return ride and travel cannot as they were went and ought Nevertheless the afd John Rogers to repair amend clear and grub the Same Roads hitherto altogether did Neglect and omit to the great annoyance prejudice and Damage of all the Liege Subjects of our Said Lord the king that now is in by and through the Same Roads with their horses carts and Carriages goeing returning passing riding and travelling contrary to the peace of the Said Lord proprietary that now is his good rule and Government and against the form |
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Kent County Criminal Court Records, 1728-1734
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