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March Court 1728 of Tobacco Conditionally that if the afd Child that was delivered of the afd Mary Slayfoot and of which the afd Riddox Blackston hath Confesed be not of any Charge to the County untell it Shall Arrive at Age &c.a wherewith they acknowledge themselves to be therewith Content &c.a
fifteen pounds of Tobacco each of the Goods and Chattles of a Certain William Beavens then & there being found then & there feloniously did Steal take and bear away Contrary to the peace of the Said Lord proprietary that now is his good Rule and Governm.t and against the form of the Act of Assembly in Such Case lately made and provided T Francis Cler. pac. Test M.r George Skirven Christopher Bateman Henry Beavens On the back of the said Indictm.t was Endorsed as folls viz.t a true bill Pme John Brook foreman And the afd Susanna Hill in her proper person cometh and saith that she is in no Sort guilty of the premisses above upon her imposed as by the afd Indictm.t it is alledged And therefore She putteth herself upon the Country Susanna Hill in p p.a And he who followeth for the Lord proprietarie in like manner Saith She is guilty T francis Cler. pac. Thereupon Command was given to the Sherf of Kent County that he Imediatly cause to come here twelve &c.a By whom &c.a who neither &c.a So recogniz.c &c.a Being as well &c.a Of which precept the Said Sherf to wit John Gresham Gentl now here at this day to wit the Eighteenth day of March Anno Dom. One thousand Seven hundred and twenty Eight Makes return that he hath here may twelve &c.a As by the precept so was Commanded And next here afterwards to wit the day and Year last mentioned come againe the afd Susanna in her proper person and the afd Lord proprietarie by the attry afd And the Jurors of that Jury being Impanelled and Called likewise came to wit James Moore William Sincocks Benjamin Jones Thomas Marsey Charles |
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