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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1725-1727
Volume 840, Page 131b   View pdf image
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              June Court              1726                       131

an Indenture by which he detained the Said Petitioner as a servant and all and singular ye Court
having heard their severall allegations on both Parts &c
                                                                                            It's thereupon Considered by the Court
here that the afd Harry Fitzwaters from the service of the afd William Jones be thereof acquit ant that
the same Indenture by the said W.m Jones produced is not sufficient in the Law to hold ye afd Petitioner
as a Servant &c 


Thomas Marshall
             bound
    ordered to Randall Long
     To the worshipfull Justices of the Peace for the County of Somersett now
in Court Sitting     the Petition of George Marshall humbly Sheweth that your
                                        Petitioners Mother did desire of Randall Long before She departed this Life for to
take Care of three of her Children till they arrived to age provided the Said Randall Long would Learn ym
to read and write as also to do as well by them as he did by his Own Children but the Said Randall Long
her Neglected and has not given the Said Children Learning but has turned the Said Children away without
Learning or Scearce any Cloathing and Keeps the Other Child very bear that he has Scearce Cloathing to Keep
him from the Sum      therefore it is the Said Childs desire that your worships will grant him Liberty to Chose
his guardian and your Petitioner as in duty Bound Shall Ever pray               George Marshall

                The Petition afd being read and heard   It's thereupon ordered by the Court that the afd Randall
Long be and appear before this Court now Sitting and Likewise that he bring the afd Thomas Marshall orphan
as afd to answer the Petition afd and that a Coppy of the afd order be made and Sent to be Served on the
afd Randall Long &c      Pursuant ^to^ the afd order afterwards in the Same Court Came the afd Randall
Long and brings with him the afd Thomas Marshall orphan as afd Likewise appeared here in the Same
Court the afd Petitioner.   And whereupon all and Singular the Premisses by the Court here seen heard &
full understood   It's thereupon further Ordered by the Court that the afd Thomas Marshall orphan
as afd Return whome with the afd Randall Long and that he give him a year's Schooling and a new
suite of apparell when he shall arrive to full age according to Law      Likewise it is ordered by the
Court that the said Randall Long give security to Comply with the same      Whereupon the Said
Randall Long together with S^o^uthy Whittington his Security both present in Court acknowledge y.mselves
to Owe and Stand Justly Indebted unto the Said Thomas Marshall in the Sum of twenty pounds
for the Use of the Said Thomas Marshall   In Case the Said Randall Long shall not give him a years
Schooling and a new Suite of apparell at the Expiration of that when he shall attain to full age according
to Law and Likewise to find and provide form him all Such Necessarys as Shall be Sufficient for Such
on Own to have and wear dureing the time he Shall Continue under his Care &c


Abraham Smith appointed Overseer of the Road through a Swamp Called Aarons Swamp


Abraham Jones
        bound to
Peter Dickenson
 Abraham Jones Orphan ^boy^ of is bound by the Court unto Peter Dickenson untill

he arrives to the age of twenty one years he being Sixteen years Next March the said
             Peter Dickenson to Endeavour to Learn him the trade of a hous Carpenter and to Keep him at his
                                                                                                                               (Reading)


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