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20 the said Lord Propry. his said Justices of the peace for the same County Court and for the same Lord Propry. doth give the same Justices here to understand and be Informed that Edwd. Williams late of Upper South Sassafrass hundred in the County afd planter otherwise called Edward Williams of Queen Anns County planter the nineteenth day of June Anno Dom. seventeen hundred thirty & Seven was possessed of a house in the same hundred and within the Jurisdiction of the same Court and then and there was the Master of a Family in the same house resideing in which family John Watkins a Taxable person above the Age of was and that William Simcocks Constable of the Same hundred duely Authorized and Quallified the same nineteenth day of June did repair in person to the same house to require of the same Edward a true list from under his hand distinctly nameing all the Taxable persons which he had in his said family then Resideing And the said Attorney doth further give the Court here to understand and be Informed that at the time of the said William his repairing to the house afd he the said Edward was Absent from his said house Nevertheless the same Edward his duty int his part not regarding did not at the same house leave any list or Acct. under his hand of any Taxable person or persons in the said house or family resideing but the same to do did altogether neglect and refuse Contrary to the form of the Act of Assembly Entituled an Act for Appointing of Constables and what relates to their Office and Ascertaining what persons are Taxables Wherefore the same Attorney of the same Lord proprr. for the Same Lord Proprry. prayeth the Advice of the Court here in the premisses and that due process of Law in this part against the afd Edward may be made to Answer unto the said Lord Propry. of and upon the premisses &ca. Francis And |
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