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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1723-1725
Volume 839, Page 80b   View pdf image
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    August                           1723                 (80)
thereupon Command was Given to the Sherr of Sommersett County that he should summon the said Orphan Boy if
he should be found in his Bailiwick that all Excuses sett apart he be ^&^ appear before the Justices of Our County
Court of Somersett afd to be held at Dividing Creek the third tuesday of august then next to answer the petition
afd and that there of he should not faile &c

                Att which said third tuesday of august next to witt the twentieth day of the same month ann Dom one thousand
seven hundred and twenty three Comes the sherr of Somersett County and makes return thereof Endorst
to the Court here viz.t      Sumoned p Joseph MccChester Sherr

                      Whereupon appeared here in Court the Petitioner afd as also the said Orphan Called John Warren
and the Court haveing heard their severall allegations as well on the part of the Petitioner afd as on the part of
the said Orphan and having deliberatly Considered the same thereupon the said John Warren by his assent
and the Court is bound by the Court unto Catherine Purnell Widdow of Capt Thomas Purnall afd dec.d untill he
arives to the age of twenty one years of age he being Seventeen years Old Last march the said Catherine
Purnall to Learn the Said John Warrent to read and write and to give him a new suite of Cloaths at the Expiration
of his servitude and Like wise to give him Now at this time a Cow and Calfe the same Cow and Calfe to remain
with the Stock of the said Catherine Purnell untill the Expiration of the service afd and then the said Catherine
Purnell to deliver upon unto the said John Warren the said Cow and Calfe with all her Increas &c

                            It's thereupon Ordered by the Court that the said Catherine Purnell Give security for the performance
of the Covenants afd   Whereupon the Said Catherine Purnell with John Turvill her security present
here in Court acknowledged themselves to Oweand and stand Justly Indebted Joyntly and Severally unto the
Said John Warren in the sum of twenty pounds Curr.t mony to be levied on their Bodys goods or Chattles
Lands or tenements for the use of the said John Warren in Case the said Catherine Purnell shall not Comply
with the Covenants afd &c


Adam Spence Jun
Pet.n for his negro to be
tax free
 To the worshipfull Justices of Sommersett County in Court Sitting the humble Petition of adam
Spence Jun most humbly sheweth that whereas your worships petitioner hath a negro woman
Named Jenny who hath Been Blind Ever since your worships Petitioner had her not withstanding
          your Petitioner not being desireous to be Burthensome to the publick hath not heretofore Petitioned to have her
Tax free but in the last Gust of weather your petitioner had a house Brown down upon her which hath to Bruised her
and Brok some of her Bones Especially one of her thigh Bones so that she is altogether Us^e^less who hopes your
worships will take it into your Judicious Considerations and Aleviate him from paying taxes for her she being only
a Charge to your petitioner and altogether uncapable of doing any manner of service and your worship's Petitioner
as in duty Bound Shall pray                                             Adam Spence Jun

   Whereupon the petition afd being read and by the Court heard and fully deliberated and It's Considered
by the Justices that the said Negro woman of the afd adam Spence Jun be Levy free for this year &c


Mary Cavanaugh
      Recognizance
 Sommersett County fs.t    Memorand.m that the thirteenth day of august One thousand seven
hundred and twenty three John Banister of the County afd Gent.n and Mary Cavanough
                                                                                                                                        (Come)


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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1723-1725
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