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Kent County Court, Proceedings, 1718-1720
Volume 833, Page 206   View pdf image
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    206                               March Court 1718
   be prosecuted no farther &ca
    But the afd Margret Saith She Cannot gainsay but that She
   hath Commited fornication but not with a negro man but denyes to
   prove the Child that was delivered of her to any person Therefore it
   it Considered by the Court here vizt. this Nineteenth day of March—
   Annoq Domini One Thousand Seven hundred and Eighteen That
   the afd Margret Murrough Receive on her bare back Nine Lashes
   well laid on for her offence of Committing fornication as afd as also
   pay the Sume of four hundred and Eighteen pounds of Tobacco Cost arrising
   on the premises afd
    It is also Considered by the Court here vizt. the Same day left mentioned
   that the Sherf of Said County take the afd Margret and Carry her to the
   whyping Post and to Execute the Stripes as in the Judgment afd and
   then to bring her into Court And the Sherf of Said County the Same
   day last mentioned Came Simon Wilmer Gent. high Sherf of Said County
   and made return of his precept against the afd Margret in all things
   Served and Executed pr Simon Wilmer Sherf
   ordered by the Court here that the afd Margret Murrough Serve at
   the Expiration of her time the Space of Six months for trouble and
   disgrace of her masters house Loose time and Charge in Lying Inn—
   as also for the mainenance of the Child during the time it Lived
   ordered by the Court here that She be delivered up at the Expiration
   of her time
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   His Ld Ship |
            at | The grand Jury having made a present^mt of the afd John
   John Haynes- | Haynes for Committing fornication &ca. Att Novbr.
   Sert. to MrsMedford | Court Last. and the afd presentmt. was by John—
   Johnson Clarke of the Indictments was framed into a bill of ——
   Indictment which is as folls vizt. Kent County Ss The Jurors for the
   Honble. the Lord proprietarie and the body of Kent on their oath do
   present that John Haynes late of Lower South Sassafras hundred —
   Labourer Servt. to Rachel Medford of the Said County widdow in the
   County afd the first day of July in the Year of our Lord one Thousand Seven
   hundred and Eighteen & at divers other days & times as well before as
   after at Lower South Sassafras Hundred afd in the County afd and within
   the Jurisdiciõn of this Court the fear of God before her eyes not having but
   by the Instigation of the devill did Commit fornication with a Certain Rachel
   Newsum & thereby did begitt a Child on ye body of the afsaid Rachel to the
   High displeasure if Almight God to the evill & pernicious Example of
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