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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1723-1725
Volume 839, Page 142b   View pdf image
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                    March Court           1723                142
Negro Bess
    Pet.n ag.t
Horsey's
 Somersett County fs:    To the worshipfull his Lordships Justices of the peace for Somersett County
Now in Court Sitting the humble petition of Bess Negro humbly sheweth &c
That whereas your worships poor petitioner was Born a Slave in Coll: David Brown hous and it
       was the said Coll good pleasure before his death to appoint that my mother and all her posterity should
       be free after his death only that your petitioner to serve his heirs or assignes till twenty one years of age
       which your petitioner did truely and was sett free  Now may it please your worships since I have been free
       by Some Instrument in Writing I have Engaged my selfe to a Certain M.rs Hannah Horsey at Back Creek
       as she says for her Lifetime she the said M.rs Horsey finding me in sufficient meat drink & Cloathing w.ch
       she does not but says she will give me but what she pleases and am threatned to be shall sold with my
       Child now that your worships would be pleased to take it into Consideration and Caus the said M.rs Horsey
       to produce the said Writing that your Worships may Know by what she holds me and my Child and
       grant me some releife for I am threatned by her son John Horsey to be shott sometimes as your Worships
       in your wisdome shall seem meet and as in duty Bound your Worships poor petitioner shall Ever pray
                                                                                                                           Bess Negro
                        Thereupon Command was given to the Sherr of Somersett County that he should sommon the
           said Hannah Horsey & John Horsey if they should be found in his Bailywick that all Excuses sett apart they
       be and appear before the Justices of his Lordships County Court of Somersett to be held at Dividing Creek the third
       tuesday of March then Next and that they have there the said Indenture by Which the said negro Bess is held
       to answer the petition afd & that thereof he should not fail &c
                         Att which said next Court to witt the seventeenth day of march ann Dom one thousand seven hundred
       and twenty three being the day of the return of the said Writt Cometh the Sherr of Somersett County
       and maketh return thereof to the Court here Endorst in these words following vizt sumsd P me Jos MccClester Sherr
                            Whereupon the said Hannah Horsey & John Horsey in their own proper persons appears
             herein Court as also the said Petitioner and the Petition afd being read & heard and the severall
       allegations on both parts as well on the part of the said Horseys as on the part of the said Petitioner
       and Likewise the said Indenture by Which the afd Petitioner is said to be held being Inspected by
       the Court and All and Singular the premises Considered &c


His Lordship
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  Mary Jones
 Somersett County fs:  The Jurors for the right honourable the Lord proprietary of the

province of maryland that Now in for the body of Somersett County upon their Oath do present
                that Mary Jones Late of Stepney Parish in the County afd Spinster the tenth day of aprill one
       thousand seven hundred and twenty three at the parish afd in the County afd within the Jurisdiction of this
       Court Committed fornication with a Certain Mitchell Dashiell by means whereof the said Mary Jones
                                                                                                                                              (was)


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