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March Court 1715
upper hundred in the County afd within the Jurisdiciõn of this Court & . at divers other Days & times as well before as after ye fear of God before his Eyes not having did Comitt fornication with a Certain Ruth Pillow to the high displeasure of Almighty God & to the Evill example of Other ag.st the peace &ca. & ag.st the forme of an Act of Assembly of this Province in that case made & provided Johnson pr Dne proprietor On the back of the preceeding bill was Endorsed as folls viz Billa Vera pr Simon Wilmer foreman And the Said John being Called Came and in his propr person apprd to the afd Indictm.t and the Sameb eing Read the afd. John Saith that he Cannot deny but that he did Committ fornicacõn with a Certain Ruth Pillow the person above speciffied and to ye Same Indictment Submitts. Therefore it is Considered by the Court here viz this twenty first day of March Anno Domini one Thousand Seven hundred and fifteen That the afd John~ Murphey pay the Sume of Six hundred pounds of Tobacco Debt for Committing the fact of fornication afd according to an Act of Assembly in Such Cases made &ca. and also the Sume of Two hundred Sixty five pounds of Tobacco Costs on the premises afd ariseing - ordered by the Court here that the Said John Murphey pay to Mr hundred pounds of Tobacco the halfe of the Charge About the Lying Inn of Ruth Pillow at his house and for trouble & discrace ordered by the Court here that the afd Francis Collins deliv.r up to this Court the afd John Murphey when free Jams Smith Clk ordered |
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