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June Court
1726
130 Surrey a negro Boy belonging to Allexander Lenkey is adjudged by the Court to be of the age of ten years this term &c Matthew Nutter son of Mathew Nutter dec.d Comes into Court and prays that he may have the Liberty of Choseing his guardian he being of full age according to Law for the Choseing the Same &c which is granted &.c thereupon the said Mathew Nutter is Comm both Real and Personall is Committed unto the Care of the sad Alexander Lackey he giveing security according to Law &c Whereas a Certain Tyrill Brown son of John Brown dec.d was Left by the said John Brown under the Care of a Certain Jn.o Fountain of Somersett County the said John Fountain to act and do by the Said Tyrill Brown as if it had been his own Child &c and since that the Said John Fountain is dead &c Now here at this day to witt the twenty first day of June Anno Dom One thousand seven hundred and twenty six Came into Court Mary Fountain Relict of the afd John Fountain dec.d and brings with her the afd Tyrill Browne and prays that the afd Tyrill Brown may be ordered to her Care and tuition &c thereupon the Said Tyrill Brown is ordered by the Court to the Care and Tuition of the said Mary Fountain and that She Learn him to Read and Write &c
in or about dureing the term afd &c Inconsideration of which Servitude the Said Merrick Ellis for himselfe his heirs & assigns do promise to find learn him to Read and write and to find and provide for him all such Necessarys as will be sufficient for such a Servant to have and wear dureing his Servitude afd &c Jack a negro boy of Alexander Marcy is adjudged by the Court to be of the afd of twenty years this term &c Nan a negro Girl of Alexander Marcy is adjudged to be of the age of ten years this Term &c
Commissioners as the Law directs in Such Cases for to swear Evidences and to Perpetuate the Bounds of Land the same and your worship's Petitioner as in duty Bound shall Ever Pray the Petition afd being Read and heard and the Premisses Considered It's thereupon ordered by the Court that a Commission Issue as by the Petition afd is Praid and that William Fasitt, Edmond Crapper James Rownd and Benjamin Burton be Commissioners to Execute the Same Commission according to act of assembly in such Case made and provided &c |
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