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have not attended the Overseer of the high Wayes when duely warned

Contrary to the Act of Assembly made & provided.

                                               Dent Clk p^rsentmts

The Indictm^t being read the sd Wm Noble Junio^r made it app^r

that he was in Accamack & had no legall warning & the sd

Broughton being Constable, it was Considered by this Court

& Ordered that the matter agt sd Noble & Broughton be dismist

Order Processe issue imediate Contra Wm Noble Senio^r to answer

to the King &ca which Writt was returned this day (Cepi).

His Matie Contra        Somerset County Ss. The Grand Jury

Sam. Fluellin. &ca}    for the body of this County at a Court

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~           held at Deviding Creek the Second

Tuesday in November last past on their Oaths doe p^rsent Samuel

ffluellin, Thomas ffarnall, John James, Edward Ross, Wm Leyton,

John Wilson Thomas Wilson of this County for that they have Contrary

to the Laws of this Province by fencing & other means Stopt up his

Maties high way or Road Contrary to the Peace &ca.

                                                              Dent Clk p^rsentm^ts

The Said ffluellin &ca this day appearing, as also y^e Informer John

Meclaster Then was read these following lines (viz) —

              To y^e Wor^ll Courtl Jan^ry y^e 4^th day 1695/6.

Whereas Complaint hath been made to y^e Worpp^s by Jn^o Meclaster

of the Inhabitants of Nanticoke Point Concerning their high wayes

whereas the under Subscriber Can positively Say that the road and

high wayes now Cleared has been the road to Nanticoke Point

this twenty years or more.

  Testes // Robert Collier, Leonard Jones, Tho: Holbrook Lewes

                 Beard, Peter Doughty, Jn^o ffurbuss, Stephen Cannon, Patrick

                 Quatermis,(that the time I being liveing there, I find y^e old

                 Road as good as the other) – Jn^o Ellinsworth. Benjamine

                 Lawrence, Eliz: Wilson, Peter Body . ___________

   To the Wor^ll Court of Somerset County . Jan^ry 11^th 1695/6

Gentlemen whereas there hath been Complaint made to me by Several

of the Inhabitants of Nanticoke Poine, of an Information made to the

Grand Jury by John Meclaster Concerning their high wayes at

which I forth with went with a Neighbour with me & viewd these

wayes whereof the Complaint is, and I can See no Cause of Complaint

in them, for where the Road is now, it has been Standing this twenty

years or more & I think for the whole length of the Point, five or Six

horse Men may ride abrest where there was hills they are leavied

& where holes they are filld up & evened, and to my Judgm^t and my

Neighbours there is not a better Road in our parts Gentlemen I am

Informed there is Severall Neighbours now arrested by this Informant

and the whole Neighbourhood that knows the Road Cannot imagine

any other thing then malice or Spite, therefore I think y^r Worpp^s will

take it to Consideration that the Poore Inhabitants shall not be too much