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August Court
1733 that Dennis Long late of Shrewsbury Parish in the County afd Labourer the servant of Benjamin Palmer the fourteenth day of July Anno Dom. Seventeen hundred thirty & three at the Parish afd in the County afd within the Jurisdicion of this Court with force and Arms one pair of trousers of the Value of Sixty pounds of Tobacco one bridle of the Value of thirty pounds of tobacco and one Saddle of the Value of three hundred pounds of Tobacco of the foods and Chattles of the Said Benjamin then and there being found then & there feloniously did Steal take and bear away against the peace of the Said Lord prop.ry his good rule and Government and against the form of the Act of Assembly in Such case made &c.a Test Benj.a Palmer T francis Cler. pac. On the Same bill of Indictment was endorsed viz.t A True bill p.r Simon Wilmer foreman And The afd Dennis Long in his proper person cometh and Saith that he is in no Sort guilty of the premisses above upon him Imposed as by the afd Indictment it is alledged and thereof he puteth himself upon the Country Dennis Long in p.a psona And he who followeth for the Lord prop.ry in like manner Saith he is guilty T francis p Ld p.ry And now here afterwards Came the afd Dennis Long in his proper person SAith that not withstanding the averment afd he now Cometh and with draweth his plea afd And Saith that he Cannot gainsay the Indictment afd So as afd against him brought nor but that he is guilty of the premisses above upon him imposed as by the afd Indictment it is alledged And thereupon Submits to the Court Therefore it is Considered by the Justices here to wit at Kent County at the Court House in the Town of Chester in Said County on the third tuesday in August being the Twenty first day of Said Month Anno Domini One Thousand Seven hundred and forty pounds of Tobacco The four fold of which Amounts to Nine hundred and forty pounds of Tobacco which the afd Dennis Long is to Serve for at the Expiration of his Service and also Stand in the Pillory one quarter of an hour and to have at the publick whipping post ten Lashes well laid on his bare back tell the blood appear according to the form force and effect of the Confession afd and also That the Said Master pay the Sum of three hundred & thirty pounds of Tobacco to the officers of this Court on the premisses afd and that the Same Dennis Serve the Said master his heirs or assigns for |
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