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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1723-1725
Volume 839, Page 230b   View pdf image
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Somersett County fs:
                                     Att a Court of the Right honorble Charles absolute Lord and proprietary of the provinces of Maryland
                   and avalon Lord Baron of Baltemore &c held at Dividing Creek in Somorsett County the third tuesday
    of November (by his Lordships Commissioners and Iss Justices of the peace) being the seventeenth day of the same
    month before and in the Ninth year of his Lordships Dominion &c ann Dom 1724

                                                                                 Present



   The Worshipfull
 M.r Samuel Hopkins
M.r William Planner
M.r John Purnall
M.r John Jones
M.r William Fasitt
 M.r John Smith
W.m Stoughton Esq.r
M.r John MccClester
M.r John Handy
M.r James Dashiell
His Lordships Justices
                      Joseph MccClester Sher                                                Thomas Hayward Cler

                Proclamation being made in Usuall form and the Sher of Somersett County to witt Joseph
MccClester Gentl: being Called to make return of the pannell of the Grand Jurors return the same which Jurors
are as followeth vizt
        John Scott
        Boaz Walston
        William MccClamey
        Charles Revell
         John Williams
         William Harris
 Samuel Alexander
Daniel Cordery
Edward Hull
Lewis Disharoone
Samuel Tomalinson
John Kellum
 Solomon Right
John More
John Reed
Thomas Hearn
George Taylor
W.m Simpson
 Stephen Waltom
Abraham Smith
Thomas Selby
Johnson Hill
Henry Alexander
Who being severally Called appeared and were sworn and Charged and sent out to Consider &c who soon ^after^
appeared and present to the Court here the following presentm.ts being Content that the Court Should amend
form altering noe manner of Substance in them viz.t Presentm.t against Elianor Collins, Mary Perdue
W.m Thompson, Ann Nutt, Catherine McDonnold, Ann Woods, Phenix Hall, Sarah Pusey, thereupon
the Grand Jurors are discharged and ordered that they be allowed the sum of five hundred pounds
of tob.o for their Publick service service this Court and against the severall persons afd presented its
Ordered that Capias Issue &c

       Somersett County fs:  November 17.th 1724      In Pursuance of an order of Court we the
Subscribers have been at the head of Manocan River at the house of Mr Henry Ballard in order
to view and regulate the standard of weights and Measures and do make the following Report viz.t
       We do find as followeth of measures one bushell, halfe Bushell and Peck, which we think and do
allow of to be Just as also One Gallon pottle, quart, and pint and of weights wee find ten fifty sixes
to be Just, other six fifty sixes we find to be Light Which M.r Ballard afd hath promised to repair
and make Exact and as for Cloath Measure we find abrass Yard and an Ell of wood
                                                                                        Wittness John Purnall, John MccClester
            Whereupon the said Henry Ballard present here in Court is Ordered to Give security in fifty
pounds sterr for the safe Keeping the Standard afd and for the due Execution of the Office of Standard
Keeper and for the delivery of the same Standard in like good order as when received when the same
shall be demanded of & from him &c thereupon the said Henry Ballard with William Stoughton
Esq.r his security present in Court acknowledged themselves to owe & Stand Justly Indebted unto
the right honourable Charles absolute Lord & proprietary of the provinces of maryland &c his heirs and
successors, Joyntly and Severally to be Levied on their Bodys Goods or Chattles Lands or tenements
                                                                                                                                              (for)


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