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March Court
1724
262 which trouble would be Extraordinary Now so it is of your worships would please to grant an order to turn or alter the same Road your petitioner will undertake to make it more Straighter or Nearer to Coll Elzeys and as good as the said Road that now is and in duty bound your Petitioner will Ever pray for your Worships W.m MccClammy The petition afd being read and heard and the premisses Considered Wherefore it is ordered by the Court that the said William MccClammy have Liberty to turn the Road he first Makeing the New Road that's by him to be made as good and as Neare to Coll Elzeys afd as the old road at his Own Proper Costs and Charges &c Levin Gale of Somersett County Gentl having Obtained his Lordships Commission as Ranger in Sommersett County for waifes strays, and deodands is approved of tooke the oaths appointed & to the Government and subscribed the oath of abjuration and test &c David Willson being appointed Deputy Commisary under Capt John Tunstall deputy Commisary for Somersett County is approved of thereupon the said David Willson took the oaths appointed to the Government & Subscribed the oath of abjuration & test &c
him the one Named William Powell and the other Levin Powell and since the death of my said Brother a Certain Samuel Brittingham of the Coloney of Vergenia Intermarried with the widdow of my said Brother and since the Inter Marriage between them with my said Brothers widdow she is dead &c Now so it is in pleas your Worships the Said Samuel Brittingham and a Certain John Powell doth Keep the said William and Levin Powell Orphans of my said Brother and doth not afford them a maintainance according to the Estate that their said father Left them but Keeps them Naked and bare and out of this province whereas in truth the said orphans Ly's proper^ly^ under your worships Care the premises Considered I humbly pray your your worships to order the said Brittingham and Powell to have the Children at March Court next to answer what shall be objected against them on behalfe of the Said Orphans and in duty bound your petitioner will Ever pray for your Worships the petition afd being read and heard and the premisses Considered It's thereupon ordered by the Court that the sherr of Somersett County Summons the said Samuel Brittingham and John Powell so that they be ^and appear^ at march Court Next to be held for the County of Somersett and also that they have there with them the said WIlliam and Levin Powell orphans afd ^to^ answer &c (Att) |
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