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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1723-1725
Volume 839, Page 2b   View pdf image
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        by any foreigner or Inhabitant your Worships Petitioner will amend ye same by ditching and Conswaying and Clearing
        the same and your Petitioner as in duty Bound shall Pray               Thomas Collins
                                                                           Whereupon it is Ordered by the Court that Mr John Smith do Inspect
        ye said Road whether it be sufficient for travelers and others and to make his report thereof at next Court &.c
                           Att Which Said next Court to witt the Nineteenth day of march Ann Dom 1722 Comes the said John
        Smith who was appointed to Inspect ye road afd and makes report thereof as follows vizt
                              In Submission to ye above orders I have Inspected the Said Road and do find that the same is
        good and Sufficient for travellers and all other Persons that may be Concerned as wittness my hand
                                                                                                                                           John Smith
   
                     Therefore it is Considered by the Justices here that ye road afd Inspected by the afd John Smith according
        to ye report afd made be and Continue the high road according to Pet.n afd Praid &c



Samuel Hitch
   Pet.n agt
William Read
To the worshipfull Justices now Sitting the Humble petition of Samuel Hitch Sheweth that your
Petitioner formerly was Bound an apprentice unto a Certaine William Read then of Somrsett County
But now of Dorchester County a Servant unto a Certain John Rider Gent and your Petitioner is not
       Kept as an apprentice ought to be according to his Indenture      Therefore Prays your Worships will take it
       into your wise Consideration and Order ye said Road to Comply with your Petitioners Indenture or he Cannot
       Subsist which being duely Considered your Petitioner as in duty Bound shall Ever pray Sam.ll Hitch
                                              On the Back of the foregoing Pet.n it was thus Endorst viz.t
       Samuel Hitches Petition granted and Ordered that he stay with his father Adam Hitch till June Court and
       if William Read shall then appear and give good security for ye Complyance with his Indenture or other
       way he will be discharged from his service         Signed P Order Alex.d Hall Clk


Sundry the Inhabitants
of Somrsett County Pet.n
to Keep ferry
 Upon the Petition of Sundry the Inhabitants of Somrsett County for the Keeping a publick
ferry over wickacomoco River about middle way between the ferry that is now and the
Bridges ^or^ where your worships shall think fitt &c    whereupon the Court haveing Motionally
                      Considered the same do agree with a Certaine George Hutchins to Keep a Publick ferry over the afd
       River from Thomas Goddards Landing to his Own the said George Hutchins finding and Providing a sufficient
       Boat felling to Convey man and horse over the said ferry and to give good attendance thereto   In Consideration
       whereof the said George Hutchins is to be allowed after ye rate of two thousand pounds of tobo P year &c


Hugh M.ccColligan
        Petn
 To the worshipfull his Lordships Justices of Somrsett County Court the humble Petition of
Hugh M.ccCollegan Sheweth that your Petitioners wife hath for a long time been afflicted in
       Such manner as that she hath been totally uncapable of Doeing any thing being deprived of her sences and
       your Petitioner has Sundry Small Children to maintain so that he is under such Circumstances as that he
       is not able to apply himself to a doctor for ye Cure of his wife without utterly reducing himself
       humbly Prays your worships will Extend your Charity towards ye Care of the said Mary by some
       allowance  And as in duty Bound he shall Pray &.c Hugh M.ccCollegan
          Whereupon all and Singular ye Premisses by ye Court here seen heard and fully understood and his
                                                                                                                                                 deliberation


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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1723-1725
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