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Kent County Court, Proceedings, 1718-1720
Volume 833, Page 412   View pdf image
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    412                                      March Court 1719
   D:M: His Ld Ship | A Veniry Issued at the Sute of his Lord Ship on a bill
                at | found by the Grand Jury for not helping Clear the Roads
     John West  —   | and wherein the Sherf of Kent County to whom the
   Same was directed makes return thereof to the Court here on the
   third tuesday in March to wit the 15th day of the Same month Anno Domi
   1719 being the day of return Endorst Summoned pr Simon Wilmer Sherf
   Kent County Ss The Jurors for the Honble the Lord Proprietor and the body

of Kent County on their Oath do present that John Waste

late of upper South Sassafrax hundred Cordwinder the fourth

day of November in the Year of our Lord Christ one Thousand
   Seven hundred and Nineteen at Shrewsberry Parish in the County afd
   within the Jurisdiciõn of this Court and within a Certain district where
   William Burrose then was for repairing and amending the Publick
   main Roads Lawfully appointed overseer then and there being an
   Inhabitant and Taxable and being by the Said overseer Seasonably and
   duely warned to Send all his Male Taxables to Labour and work in mending
   and repairing the afd Roads the Said John did then and there obstinately and
   Contemtuously Refuse to Send any taxable Man to work and Labour in
   mending a Certain Publick main Rain Road leading from Cypras Branch to
   John Ellis’s within the district afd the Said Roads then and there being —
   decayed and out of repair against the Peace of our Said Lord Propry his rule
   and dignity and against the form of an Act of assembly of this province –
   now in force in Such case made & provided D Macbride pr Dnõo Proprie
   Evidce. William Burross oversear.
   on the back of the preceeding bill was Endorst as folls vizt. Billa Vera pr
   And now at this Court to wit the 16th day of March Anno Domi 1719
   comes the afd Deft. and defends the force and injury when &ca. and Says
   that he cannot gainsay the bill of Indictment afd So as afd against
   him Thereupon he Submits to the Court on the Same Therefore it is
   Considered by the Justices here on the 16th day of March Anno Domi
   1719 afd That the Said John Waste be Fin’d the Sume of one hundred
   pounds of Tobacco for his omitting to Clear the Roads as afd according to
   Act of Assembly in Such Case made and Provided and also pay the Sume
   of Two hundred Sixty five pounds of Tobacco Cost accruing on the premises
   afd to the officers of this Court
                                                                                      Jams Smith Clk



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Kent County Court, Proceedings, 1718-1720
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