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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1723-1725
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       November Court         1723         122
Gurley to answer &c and the said George Gurley being sett to the Barr is thereupon Instantly demanded
how he would acquitt himselfe of the premisses afd above Imposed upon him says that of the premisses afd an
it is by the above Indictm.t in manner & form supposed he is noeways Guilty thereof and thereof for tryall
putts himselfe upon God and his Country (and prays that Councell may be assigned him in the premisses afd thereupon
from George Dashiell is appointed as Councell to act in the premisses &c) and William Tazewell who
for his said Lordship the Lord proprietor in this Behalfe prosecutes says that he is Guilty and prays that it may
be Enquired of by the Country Likewise
                                                                     thereupon Command is Given to the sherr of Somersett County
that Immediately he Cause to Come here twelve &c to Recognize &c by whom &c who as well &c and the said William
Tazewell who prosecuteth &c and also the said George Gurley prisoner as afd being here in Court the said Sherriffe
to witt Joseph MccClester Gentl makes return that he has here ready twelve &c is by his said preceipt he was Commanded
who being Called Came to witt John Roach, Henry Toadvine, Robert Collier, Thomas Hobbs, Jacob Adams, Charles
Cottingham, George Benson, Stephen Horsey, Thomas Dickson, David Hazard John Dennis Sen John Records
who being duely Elected tryed & sworn ^to say the truth in the premisses^ upon their Oath do say that the said George Gurley is not Guilty of the
premisses as by the Indictm.t above is Imposed upon him &c
                                                 Therefore it is Considered by the Justices here the Ninteenth day of November ann
Dom One thousand seven hundred and twenty three that the said George Gurley goe thereof acquitt &c  Whereupon
it is Ordered by the Court that the said George Gurley Give Security for the paymt of the several Officers their fees
due by Occasion of the premisses afd thereupon a Certain Francis Person of Somersett County present here in Court
undertook for the said George Gurley to pay unto their several Officers their fees due by occasion of the premisses
afd &c

                          Whereas the Bridge that I over the head of Manocan river is so decayed that it's dangerous to ride
    or pass Over &c therefore it is Ordered by the Court that Coll Charles Ballard, William Stoughton Esq.r & M.r
    Levin Gale agree with some person or persons for the repairing of same Bridge and the Keeping it in good
    repair and to make there report at next Court &c

    Upon the Mocon of M.r Francis Allen for the haveing a free ferry Over Nanticoke river at the Town of Vianna
    &c    Its Ordered by the Court that there be no free ferry (that is) there be noe ferry ^maintained^ Waited by the County ^of Somersett^ over
    any part of Nanticoke river for the future &c


W.m Facit
  Pet.n
         To the worshipfully Justices of Somersett County now in Court sitting the humble petition of
William Fasitt humbly sheweth to your Worshipps    that Whereas your petitioner hath a peice of
Land Lying in Synapuckson neck Called mayfields Containing five hundred acres and for as much as the
bounds is rendered Precarious and their being provision made by a late Act of assembly Impowering the Justices
of the County Court to appoint such persons as they shall think fitt to mete on the said Land to take the depositions
of all such persons as shall be to them Named in relation to the Bounds of the said Land afd
                  the premisses Considered and our Worships appointing such persons as to you shall seem mete in Complyance
of the afd act of assembly your petitioner will Ever pray for your Worships Prosperety &c W.m Fasitt
the petition afd being read and heard and the premisses Considered &c  Its Ordered by the Court that Commission Issue
Out of this Court according to act of assembly to Saml Hopkins, John Purnell Adam Spence sen & Robert Martin
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