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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1723-1725
Volume 839, Page 193   View pdf image
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          June Court            1724            193
His Lordship
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Mary Bolitha
 Somersett fs:  The Jurors for the Right honourable the Lord proprietary of

this province that Now is for the Body of Somersett County upon their Oath do
                      present that Mary Bolitha Late of Coventry parish in the County afd Genln
    in the year One thousand seven hundred and twenty three at the parish afd in the County
    afd within the Jurisdiction of this Court unlawfull Concealed two Taxables person against
    the peace &c and also against the form of the act of assembly in such Case made and provided &c
                                                                                        L Gale P Lopy
    On the Back of the foregoeing Bill of Indictm.t it was thus Endorsed viz.t Billa vera Adam
    Hitch foreman                                       Thereupon Command was Given to the sherr of Somersett
    County that he should take the said Mary Bolitha if she should be found in his Bailywick
    and her 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 the third tuesday of June ^then^ Next to
    answer unto his Lordship Concerning a Certain Indictm.t against her found &c and that thereof
    he should not fail &c                Att which said third tuesday of June to witt the sixteenth day
    of the same month ann Dom One thousand seven hundred & twenty four Being the day of the
    return of the said writt Comes the sherr of Somersett County and makes return thereof Endorst vizt
                                                                               Cepi Corpus P Jos: MccClester Sherr
       Whereupon the said Mary Bolitha by Francis allen her attorney appears and thereupon the
    said Levin Gale his Lordships attorney who for his said Lordship in this Behalf prosecutes
    Cometh here into Court and saith that he will not any further prosecute the same Mary Bolitha
    on the Indictm.t afd nor further thereof will in anywise Intermeddle &c
             Wherefore it is Considered by the Justices here that his said Lordship take Nothing by the
    Indictm.t afd but ^that the said Mary^ be thereof acquitt &c 


His Lordship
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Richard Driskill
 We of the Jury do present Richard Driskill for the begetting a bastard

Child on the Body of Hannah Ford    W.m Turpin Foreman
    Thereupon Command is given to the sherr of Somersett County that he should take the said Richard
    Driskill if &c to answer &c and afterwards in the same Court Comes the said Richard Driskill
    in Custody of the sherr and being sett to the Barr is thereupon Instantly demanded how he would
    acquitt him selfe of the premisses afd upon him Imposed says he is guilty thereof and ^is willing to^ pay
    thirty Shillings for his fine for ye fact afd                     Therefore it is Considered by the Justices
    here that the said Richard Driskill be fined for ^to^ his Lordship the sum of thirty Shillings for
    the fact afd thereupon the said Richard Driskill is discharged he giveing Security for paymt
    of the severall Officers the fees due upon the presentm.t afd      Whereupon a Certain Moses
    Driskill present in Court acknowledged himselfe in ten pounds sterr to be Levied &c In Case he
    doth not pay the severall officers their fees due as afd &c


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