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Kent County Criminal Court Records, 1728-1734
Volume 567, Page 530   View pdf image (33K)
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530                                        August Court 1734

day of March Anno Dom. Seventeen hundred thirty and three before James Harris
Esq.r and his associates the Said Lord prop.ry His Justices of Kent County Court afd and
and for the Same Lord proprietary doth give the Same Justices here to understand
and be informed that Mary Gale late of upper South Sassafras Hundred in
Shrewsbury parish in the County afd Spinster the nineteenth day of June Anno Dom.
Seventeen hundred thirty and three was possessed of a house in the Same hundred
and County and within the Jurisdicion of this Court being and then and there was
the chief person and Mistriss of the family in the Same house then residing
and that William Simcox Cunstable of the Same Hundred duly authorized and
qualified the same nineteenth day of June in the year afd did repair in person
to the same house and did then there required of the said Mary Gale a true list
from under her hand distinctly naming all the taxable persons which She
then had within her Said family and altho the Same Mary Gale then and there
did give unto the Same William Simcox a list and Account of Sundry taxable
persons in her Said family then resideing Yet She the Same Mary the Laws of
this province like weighing or regarding James Saunders a taxable person in
her Said family then resideing in the same list did not write down or mention
or cause to be written down or mentioned but the Same James Saunders to be
a taxable person from the knowledge of the Said William Simcox then and there did conceal
contrary to the form of the Act of Act of Assembly Intitled an Act for the ________
of Constables and what relates to them a ffine and pertaining what persons
are taxables and against the peace of the said Lord proprietary his good rule and
government &c.a  Wherefore the same attorney of the said Lord proprietary for the
Same Lord proprietary prayeth the advice of the Court here in the premisses
and that due process of Law in this part against the afd Mary Gale may be
made to answer unto the same Lord proprietary of and upon the premisses &c.a

    And at Kent County at the Court House in the Town of Chester in Said County on the third
tuesday in June being the Eighteenth day of Said Month Anno Dom. one thousand Seven
hundred and thirty four Came the afd Lord prop.ry by his att.ry afd And the Same by
Mary Gale in her proper person and prays that the same cause may be Continued
untill the third tuesday in AUgust then next ensueing which is granted as prayed

    Att which Said third tuesday in August being the twentieth day of Said Month Anno
Dom. one Thousand Seven hundred and thirty four Came againe the afd the Lord
Proprietary by his attorney afd And the same Mary Gale in her proper
person and Saith that She Cannot gainsay the Information afd
So as afd against her brought nor can She Say but that She is
guilty as by the Information afd it is alledged and thereupon
Submits to the Court        Therefore it is Considered by the
Justices here to wit the Same day and Year last mentioned That
the afd Mary Gale being find the Sum of five hundred pounds of


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