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March Court
1724
263 On the Back of the foregoeing Bill it was thus Endorsed Ignoramus W.m Lane foreman thereupon the said Alice Oats is discharged from her recognizance afd & ordered to give Security for fees due by meanes of the premisses afd thereupon the afd Peter Fitzgerrall present here in Court undertakes for the said Alice Oats to pay all the fees due by occasion of the premisses afd Upon the prayer of the afd alice Oats She was Cleared by Proclamation in Usuall form &c Robert Martin of Somersett County Gentl brings a Servant Boy into this Court Names John Callanane who was Imported into this Country in the Sloop Called John of Doublin a Certain John Videll Master thereupon the said Robert Martin prays the ^Judgm.t of the^ Court in relation to the age of the said John Callanane Whereupon the Court are of Opinion and do adjudge the said John Callanane to be of the age of fifteen years &c
to the Inlett which was then foardable but since by the Late great Stormes rendered unpassable and a new Road by your Worships order Cleared round the head of the Indian River by means of which the old Road is become useless Yett not withstanding divers Ill Neighbours presueing of the Liberty of the old road do Continually Molest and damnifie your petition by throwing down your petitioners fenceing Round his Inclosures your Petitioner humbly Craves a redress of his greivances by such suitable Means as your not worships wisdoms shall seem most Convenient and your Petitioner as in duty bound shall pray the petition afd being read & heard & the premisses Considered It's Ordered by the Court that the Road which Leads from the said Onortons house to the Inlett be void but that the old road that Leads from his house to the Indian Town Branch be Cleared & deem'd a maine County Road &c
Prays that he may be allowed by the County for Keeping the said Jno Flin thereupon It's ordered by the Court that the said John Johnson be allowed six hundred pounds of tobacco next Levy Court Likewise the Said John Flin Orphan afd is bound by the Court unto the said John Johnson untill he arrives to the age of twenty one years he being five years Old next December the said John Johnson to find the said John Flin sufficient Necessarys during his servitude mete for him to have & wear Likewise Its ordered by the Court that the said John Johnson give good security to save, Keep harmless & Endempnifie Somersett County from all burthens, troubles, Charges or Incumbrances that might happen by means of the said Childs being Left without ^a^ Guardiant &c Thereupon the said John Johnson with Peter Frazer his Security present here in Court (acknowledged) |
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