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November Court 1717 284 ordered by the Court here that the afd Margret Murrough at the Expiration of her time Service Serve her afd Master Colo Thomas Smythe Six weeks for keeping the Child of the afd Margret while it lived ordered by the Court here that the afd Margret go to her Masters Service againe ordered by the Court here that her Master at the Expiration of her time of Service deliver the Said Margret Murrough to the Court or Sherf So that She may make Satisfaciõn for the charges the County pays for her Jams Smith Clk
afd within the Jurisdiciõn of this Court the fear of God before her eyes not having did Committ fornication with a Certain Negro man his name to the Jurors un- :known and there did Suffer herselfe to be begott with a Molatto Child agst. the peace of the Said Ld Proprietarie his rule and dignity and the forme of an~ Act~ of Assembly of this province now in force in Such Case made and provided &ca. JJohnson pr Ld Propr on the back of the preceeding indictment was Endorsed as folls vizt. True bill pr John Evans foreman And the afd Mary Lavender being called came and in her proper person apprd. to the afd Indictment~ And Saith that She Cannot gainsay but that She is guilty of Committing fornication with a negro man and Submits herselfe~ to the Court on the Indictment afd: Therefore it is Considered by the Court~. here viz This Twenty Second day of November Anno Domini One Thousand Seven hundred and Seventeen That the afd Mary Levender Serve this County Seven Years Att the Expiration of her time of Service for Committing the afd offence of ffornication with a negro man according to Act of Assembly in~ Such Case made and provided and also pay the Sume of Two hundred and Twenty pounds of Tobacco Cost accrewing on the premises afd to the officers of~ this Court~. Ordered by the Court here that the afd Mary Lavender Serve Six months to her afd Master William Glanvill for trouble disgrace of his house Loos of time and charge in bringing her to bed which Said Six months is to be Served at the Expiration of the afd Marys now time of Service ordered by the Court here that the afd William Glanvill have allowed him in the Levey this Court three hundred pounds of Tobacco for keeping the Mollatoe Child was last deivered of the afd Mary Lavender in his Service ordered by the Court here that the Said Mollatoe Child be Sold to any person~ that will make purchase of the Same untill the Said Child Shall arrive at~ the age of thirty one Years On which William Glanvill afd comes into Court and Saith that he~ will give the afd three hundred pounds of Tobacco the Court allowed him for keeping the Said Mollattoe Child which the Court accepts of And the afd Child to Serve the afd William Glanvill untill the Said Mollattoe - Shall arrive at the age of thirty one Years the Said Mollattoe being now about three months old ordered |
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