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March Court
1725
110 Shall wittingly or willingly entertain any servant or slave unlawfully absenting him her or themselves from his her or there Master Mistriss dame or Over Seer shall be fined five hundred pounds of tob.o for ever night or twenty four hours that such person or persons shall give such entertainment as afd the one halfe thereof to the right Honrble the Lord prop.r of this province his heirs & successors for the suport of Goverment & the other halfe to the informer or him or them that Shall Sue for the same to be recover'd in any County Court of this province by action of Debt bill plaint or Information wherein no Eassoin protection or wager of Law to be allowed as by the said act fully app.rs & the said John Donelson who as well &c ^in^ of fact says that a Certain Abraham Maguiney of the twenty fourth day of augst Ann Dom one thousand Seven hundred & twenty five and Long before & afterwards at Somersett County afd within the Jur of this Court was his Servant unLawfully absented himselfe from him the said Jn.o Donelson who as well &c from the afd twenty fourth day of August in the year afd at the County afd within ye afd Jur for the space of thirty days & thirty nights then next following & the said John Donelson who as well &c further says that the afd Abraham Cordery not Ignorant of y.e premises but in Contempt of the Act of assembly afd & to the great Damages of the Same John who as well &c at Somersett County afd within the afd Jur the said Abraham Maginey (so as afd unlawfully from his Masters Servis absented from the afd twenty fourth day of August in the year afd for the whole space of thirty days & thirty nights next following afd did wittingly & willingly entertain ag.t the form of the Act of Assembly afd by w.ch action (by force of the Act of Assembly afd) hath accrewed to the afd Jn.o who as well &c to require & have of the afd Abraham Cordery for the Lord prop.r & himselfe the afd Sum of fifteen thousand pounds of tob.o by him the said Abraham Cordery by the act afd in form afd forfeited for wittingly & willingly entertaining the afd Abraham Maginey thirty days & thirty nights that he unlawfully absented himselfe from his Master afd nevertheless the said Abraham Cordery tho' often thereto required the afd Sum of fifteen thousand pounds of tob.o or any part thereof the the afd Lord prop.r or the same John who as well &c hath not renderd but the same Abraham Cordery the same heitherto to y.e said Lord prop.r or the same John who as well &c to render hath altogether denyed & Still doth deny whereby the same John who as well &c says he is wors & hath damage to the value of twenty thousand pounds of tobacco & thereof he brings this Suite &c L Gale P Quer pledges Jno Doe Rich.d Roe And the afd Abraham Cordery ^by^ his attry Jos: Pemberton Comes & defends the force & Injury when &c and Saith that he doth not owe to the afd the right honrble the Lord prop.r & the afd John Donelson who as well &c the afd fifteen thousand Pounds of tob.o in manner & (form) |
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1725-1727
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