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the first day of October Anno Domini Seventeen hundred and thirty Negro the eight at the County afd fornication with a Certain ^ Man to ^ Jurors Negro Man unknown did committ and the same ^ permitt to have carnall knowledge of her body and then & there a Bastard child to begett against the peace &c And against the form of the Act of Assembly in such case made and provided J George On the Back of the afd Indictment was Indorsed as fol. Billa Vera Natha. Hynson foremn. And now here to wit at Kent County Court at the Court house in the Town of Chester in said County on the third tuesday of August being the twenty first day of said month in the year of Our Lord Seventeen hundred thirty & nine cometh the afd Lord propry by Joshua George his Attorney and prayeth that the afd Jane to the Indictment afd may Answer And the afd Jane in her proper person comes and saith defends the force and injury when &c And cannot gainsay the Indictment afd so as afd against her brought nor can She say But that she is Guilty of the prsses afd above upon her Imposed as by the afd Indictment it is alledged And thereof Submits to the Court Therefore it is Considered by the Justices here to wit at Kent County Court at the Court house in the Town of Chester in said County on the third tuesday of August being the twenty first day of said month in the year of Our Lord seventeen hundred thirty & nine that the afd Jane pay the sum of pounds of tobacco costs accrueing on the premisses afd to the Severall Officers of this Court Jams Smith Cl. |
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