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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1723-1725
Volume 839, Page 148b   View pdf image
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                March Court            1723                    148
of the said Lord proprietary against the said William Robinson and not to depart the same Court without Lycence
thereof &c 

       Ordered by the Court that John Langsdale deliver unto William Stoughton Esqr or order two Cows & Calves & one
       Box that he hath in his Custody that was Left unto a Certain David Smith ^an orphan Boy^ by his father Late decd &c

       Ordered by the Court that John Disharoon Clear the road by William Cary's Plantation as he shall think fitt &c


His Lordship
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Rachell Walton
 Somersett County fs:         The Jurors for his Lordship Charles absolute Lord & proprietary of the provinces

of maryland & avalon Lord Baron of B for the Body of Somersett County upon their oath doe present
                       Rachell Walton of the County afd Spinster for that the said Rachell the fear of God Before her Eyes not
       having but being seduced and Led away by the Instigation of the devill the               day of October ann Dom one
    thousand seven hundred and twenty three at the parish & County afd did Committ fornication ^with^ to a Certain person to this
    Inquest ^un^Known by reason whereof the said Rachell on             day of            October                  ann Dom seventeen
    hundred and twenty three at the Parish and County afd was delivered of a bastard Child against the peace &c and
    against the form of an act of assembly of this province Now in force in Such Case made & provided &c
                   On the Back of the foregoeing Bill it was thus Endorst vizt Billa vera Ja Mackmorie Foreman
             Thereupon Command was given to the Sherr of Somersett County that he should take the afd Rachell Walton
    of the County afd Spinster if she should be found in his Bailiwick and he should Safe Keep so that he might
    have her Body Before the Justices of his Lordships County Court of Somersett to be held at Dividing Creek third
    tuesday of March next to answer unto his Lordship Concerning a bill of Indictm.t against her found & that thereof
    he should not fail &c         Att which said third tuesday of March to witt the seventeenth day of the same month
ann Dom one thousand seven hundred and twenty three being the day of the return of the afd Writt Cometh the Sherr of
Somersett County and make the return thereof Endorst vizt   Cepi Corpus P Joseph MccClester Sherr

                      Whereupon the said Rachell Walton appears and being by the Sherr sett to the Barr is thereupon
       Instantly demanded how she would acquitt herselfe of the premisses afd above Imposed upon her says that of the
       premisses afd she is no ways Guilty thereof and submitts to the mercy of the Court & makes Oath that a Certain Solomon
       Yearly al.s Turpin is the Begetter of the Child she stands Indicted for but hath not wherewithall to pay her fine for
       the fact afd &c                     Wherefore it is Considered by the Justices here that the said Rachell Walton be had to
       the publick whiping Post and there be whipt with fifteen Lashes on the bare Back well Laid on untill the Blood
       appear and thereupon the said Rachell Walton is discharged she giveing security for paymt of the severall
       officers fees due by occasion of the premisses afd &c thereupon a Certain Jeremiah Wright present in Court undertakes
       for the said Rachell Walston and acknowledged himselfe to owe & stand Justly Indebted unto his Lordship in ten pounds
       Currt mony to be Levied &c   In Case he doth not pay unto the severall Officers their Fees due upon the Indictmt afd by
       occasion of the premisses afd &c 

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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1723-1725
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