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March Court
1724 267 John Horsey Jun.r appears according to his Recognizance Entered into for his appearance this Court and is discharged paying the severall Officers their fees &c Whereas a Certain Daniel Davis of Somersett County being bound by Recognizance in the sum of ten pounds sterling Last November Court for his good behaviour and appearance this March Court Now hereat to witt the sixteenth day of March one thousand seven hundred & twenty four the said Daniel Davis altho' solemnly Called Cometh not but makes default &c Wherefore it is Considered by the Court that the afd ten pounds sterr (the Sum afd by the said Daniel Davis Entered into afd) be Levied on the body goods or Chattells Lands or tenements of the said Daniel Davis for the use of the Right honourable the Lord proprietary of this province &c Likewise a Certain William Pointer undertook for the said Daniel Davis in the sum of five pounds Ster that he should be of the good behaviour and make his appearance at March Court Next &c Whereupon the said William Pointer altho' solemnly Called to bring in the body of the said Daniell Davis whom he undertook to have here at this day according to his Recognizance Cometh not but maketh default whereby the Recognizance afd in the sum of five pounds Sterr afd became forfeited to the Right honrble the Lord proprietor of this province &c Wherefore it is Considered by the Court that the said Right Honourable the Lord proprietary Recover against the Said William Pointer the afd sum of five pounds ster to be Levied on his body goods or Chattells Lands or tenements for the use of the said Lord proprietary &c
of this Court One Linnen Sheet of the value of thirteen shillings Curr.t money of this province of the goods and Chattells of a Certain Ephraim Willson and five gallons of syder Brandy of the value of twenty shillings Like money as afd of the goods and Chattells of a Certain Eleanor Ervine and one pair of Bodices of the value of twenty Shillings Like money as afd of the goods and Chattells of a Certain Mary Mathews then and there being found then and there feloniously did steall take and Carry away against the peace of Our said Lord proprietary his good rule and dignity and also against the form of the act of assembly in such Case made &c Lev Gale Clk Ind.t for Somer County Testes Francis Willson, Eleanor Parvine, Mary Ervin, Jos: Thompson, & Mary Mathews On the Backside of the foregoeing Bill of Indictm.t it was thus Endorsed vizt Billa vera Wm Lane foreman Thereupon Command was given to the Sherr of Somersett County that he Should take the said Mary Cook Late of Somersett County Spinster if she ^should^ shall be found &c his Ba to answer &c and afterwards to witt this sixteenth day of March ann Dom One thousand seven hundred & twenty four Comes the said Mary Cook in Custody of the sherr into whose Custody was Committed for the Cause afd and the said Mary Cook being sett to ye Barr is thereupon Instantly demanded how she would acquitt herselfe of the felony ^afd^ as (by) |
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