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Kent County Criminal Court Records, 1728-1734
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                                                    March Court 1733                                                    479

the County afd Spinster the tenth day of June Anno Dom. Seventeen hundred thirty and three
at the Parish afd in the County afd within the Jurisdicion of this Court did Commit fornication with
a Person to the Jurors afd unknown and did permit the Same unknown person then and there
to have Carnal knowledge of her body and to beget then and there a bastard child on the
body of her the Same Mary to the high displeasure of Almighty God to the evil Example
of all others in Such case offending contrary to the peace of the Said Lord prop.ry his good
rule and Government and against the form of the Act of Assembly in that case made and provided
Test Sarah Miller                                                                T francis

    On the Same Indictment was endorsed as foll. viz.t  True Bill by me Rob.t Dunn foreman

    And now here at this Court to wit at Kent County at the Court House in the Town of Chester
in Said County on the third tuesday in March being the nineteenth day of Said Month Anno Dom.
One Thousand Seven hundred and thirty three Came The afd the Lord prop.ry by Tench Francis
his attorney and the afd Mary Graves in her proper person And the Same Lord p.ry by
his Said attorney Saith that for as much as he hath not Evidence Sufficient to maintain the
afd Charge in the Indictment afd Specified against the Said Mary Graves he will not prosecute
the Same Indictment any further  Therefore it is Considered by the Justices here
that is to Say the same day and year last said that the afd Mary Graves as to the Indictment
afd She go thereof without day and be therefrom acquitted  Also it is Considered that the
Said Mary Graves pay the Sum of Two hundred and Six pounds of Tobacco Costs accrueing on
the premisses afd to the officers of this Court                                        Jam.s Smith Clk

T. f.
 His Lordship
       ag.t
Mary Graves Serv.t
to Arthur Miller
 Command was given on the nineteenth day of March in the twentyeth
year of his Lordship Dominion &c.a Anno Dom. One Thousand
Seven hundred and thirty three To the Sherrif of Kent County
that he Should take Mary Graves late of S.t Pauls Parish in the
County afd Spinster then and there a free Mullatto and the Servant
of Arthur Miller of the Same Parish and County Gentl. if She Should be found in his bailiwick
and him Safe keep So that he have his body before the Justices of our County Court
now held for the Same County at the Court House in the Town of Chester in Said County
to answer unto a Certain Indictment for Committing fornication and haveing beget
a bastard Child on her body Contrary &c.a  And that the Same Sherrif have at the Same
Court the Same writ &c.a

    And now here afterwards to wit at Kent County at the Court House in the Town of Chester
in Said County on the third tuesday in March being the nineteenth day of Said Month Anno
Dom. One Thousand Seven hundred and thirty three Came John Gresham Gentl. Sherrif
of Said County and made Return to the Court here thereof endorsed as foll. Cepi Corpus p
                                                                                                    Jn.o Gresham    Sherf

    Kent County fs.t  The Jurors of the Right Hon.rble the Lord prop.ry that now is for Kent County
afd upon their Oath do present that Mary Graves late of S.t Pauls Parish in the County
afd Spinster then and there a free Mullatto and the Servant of Arthur Miller of the
Same Parish and County Gent being the tenth day of June Anno Dom. Seventeen
hundred thirty and Two at the Parish afd in the County afd within the Jurisdicion


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