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Kent County Court, Proceedings, 1718-1720
Volume 833, Page 415   View pdf image
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                                           March Court 1719                                       415 
   of our Lord Christ one thousand Seven hundred and nineteen at the hundred
   afd in Shrewsberry parish in Kent County within ye: Jurisdiction of this Court
   and within a Certain district where William Burross then was for amending
   and repairing the publick and Main Roads Lawfully Appointed Overseer
   then and there being an Inhabitant and taxable and being by the Sd: Overseer
   Seasonably and duely Warned to Send All his Male taxables to repair and
   amend the afd Roads the Said John did then and there obstinately and
   Contemtuously refuse to Send any male taxable to work and Labour in
   mending and repairing a certain Publick main Road leading from Cyprus
   branch to John Ellis’s within the district afd the Said Roads then 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
   Evide. William Burross overseer D Macbride pr Dnõ Proprie
   on the back of the preceeding bill was Endorsed as folls vizt. Billa
   Vera pr William Crow foreman——
    and now at the Said Court to wit the 16th day of March Anno
   Domi 1719 comes The afd John Jones and defends the force and —
   injury when &ca. And Says that he Cannot gainsay the bill of
   Indictment afd So as afd against him nor but that he did omitt
   coming to help Clear the Road when warned by the Said overseer
   and Thereupon he Submitts to the Court Therefore it is Consider:
   :ed by the Justices here the 16th day of March Anno Domi 1719 afd
   that the Said John Jones be find the Sume of one hundred —
   pounds of Tobacco for his offence afd in forme afd Confessed —–
   according to Act of Assembly in Such Case made and provided &ca.
   and also pay the Sume of Two hundred twenty five pounds
   of Tobacco Costs accrueing on the premises afd to the officers of
   this Court
                                                                                   Jams Smith Clk
   D:M: His Ld Ship –– | A Veniry Issued at the Suite of his Ld
             at | Ship on a bill found by the Grand Jury
      William Bronnick      | for not helping Clear the Road &ca. and


wherein the Sherf Kent County to whom ye 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 ye day of return Endorst
   Summoned pr Simon Wilmer    and the Sd Deft aprs. and there being not —
   Sufficient mattr in the bill to Support the Same The Clarke of Indictmts. by
   the Consent of the Court Enters A Noli prosequi and that the Same be no —
   farther prosecuted ——–



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