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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1723-1725
Volume 839, Page 265b   View pdf image
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       March Court                1724              265
Corporall Punishm.t Command is given to the Sherr of Somersett County that he do thereof Immediate
Execution by whiping the afd Jane Nutt with fifteen Lashes at the publick whiping Post well Laid on
untill the blood appear and afterwards the Sherr Returns that he hath done the Execution of the Judgm.t
afd as to the Corporall punishment afd he was Commanded   Whereupon it ^is^ ordered by the Court that
the said Jane Nutt return home into the service of her Master Joseph Venables and serve her said Master
four full months it being adjudged full satisfaction for Loss of time trouble and Charges her said Master was
at at the time of her Lying in which said four Months service to Commence at the Expiration of her
service allready Indented or Contented for and at the Expiration the said Joseph Venables is by Law
obliged to return the said Jane Nutt in order to reemburst the tobo paid by Somersett Count for her


The same
      agt
Sarah Pusey
 We of the Jury do present Sarah Pusey of Coventry parish Spinster for bearing a bastard
Child about the fifteenth day of October in 1724        John Scott foreman
               Thereupon Command was given to the sher of Somersett County that he should
          take the said Sarah Pusey of Coventry parish Spinster 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 the third tuesday of March then next at dividing Creek to answer unto his said Lordship
Concerning a Certain presentm.t against her found &c and that thereof he should not fail &c
                      Att which said third tuesday of march to witt the sixteenth day of the Same month ann Dom
One thousand seven hundred and twenty four being the day of the return of the said Writt Cometh the sher
of Somersett County to whom the foregoeing Writt was directed Cometh and Maketh Return thereof Endorsed
in these words following viz.t                                 Cepi Corpus P Joseph MccClester Sherr

             Whereupon the said Sarah Pusey in her Own Proper person appears and being sett to
the bar is thereupon Instantly demanded how she would acquitt herselfe of the premisses afd so as afd
upon her Imposed   says that of the premisses afd upon her Imposed she is guilty thereof
and makes Oath that a Certain William Langford is the begetter of the Child she stands presented for
but hath not wherewithall to pay her fine for the fact afd      Wherefore it is Considered by the
Court that the said Sarah Pusey be whipt at the publick whiping post with fifteen Lashes on the
bare back well Laid on untill the blood appear and as to the Corporall punishm.t Command is
given to the Sherr of Somersett County that he doe thereof Immediate Execution by whiping the afd Sarah
Pusey at the publick whiping post with fifteen Lashes on the bare back well Laid on untill the
Blood appear      And afterwards in the same Court the said sher Returns that he hath done the
Execution of the Judgm.t afd as to the Corporall punishm.t afd he was Commanded
       Whereupon its ordered by the Court that the said Sarah Pusey give Security for all Fees that
accrewed due unto the severall officers upon the presentm.t afd   thereupon a Certain Peter Frazer &
William Pusey both of Somersett County planters undertakes for the said Sarah Pusey to pay unto the
severall officers ^their fees^ be by occasion of the premisses afd upon the presentm.t afd
by order of Court the said Sarah Pusey Enters into recognizance in ten pounds sterll for her appearance at
Next Court to give Evidence ag.t the said W.m Langford &c


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