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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1725-1727
Volume 840, Page 159b   View pdf image
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              August Court           1726                        159

John Caldwell
Pet.n for Commission
 Somersett fs          To the Worshipfull his Lordships Justices of the Peace for Somersett
County       Now in Court Sitting the Petition of John Caldwell of the Said County humbly
                         Sheweth that your Petitioner is possessed of three tracts of Lands Called maiden Head
Kirkminster and Freinds Denyall the Boundarys whereof are decayed and the Wittnesses to prove them
antient and Inform your Petition therefore prays that your worships will Issue a Commission to
Such Persons as you Shall think proper according to the form of the act of assembly in Such Case
Lately made to Examine Wittnesses in order to perpetuate the said Boundary's and your Petitioner as
in duty bound Shall Ever pray                     John Caldwell

                The Petition afd being Read and heard and the Premisses Considered   It's thereupon
Ordered by the Court that a Commission  of Issue as by ^the^ a petition afd is prayed and that Joseph Venables
John Roach, Ebenezer Handy and Thomas Humphry's of Somersett County Gent be Commissioners
and Execute the same Commission according to Law in Such Case made and provided &c


            Whereupon it is Ordered by the Court that the Sherr of Somersett County Return
a Sufficient Number of good and Lawfull men of his Bailywick to Compleat and make up a grand
Jury for the Body of Somersett County &.c   Thereupon the Said Sherr being Called makes return of
the Pannel of the grand Jurors Returns the Same which Jurors are as followeth viz.t  James M.ccMorie
Isaiah Bredall, Martin Kennett, Benjamin Tull, Jonathan Cottingham, Edmond Crapper, John Townsend Jun.r
Alexander Lackey, Lewis Disharoon, Abraham Smith, Richard Knight, Giddion Tilman, Thomas Gray,
Robert Mitchell, Robert Harris, John Broughton and Daniel Cawdery who being severally Called
appeared and were Charged and Sent Out to Consider who Soon after return and present to the Court here one
Bill of of Indictm.t viz.t against Thomas Davis and Negro Jacob being Content that the Court Should
amend form altering no manner of Substance in the Said Bill which they found to be true thereupon the
grand Jurors are discharged and ordered that they be allowed for their publick Service this Court the Sum of
one hundred pounds of tob.o to be paid next Levy Court &c



Alexander Lackey
          Security to
Mathew Nutter
 Whereas a Certain Mathew Nutter Son of Mathew Nutter dec.d in June Court last
Came into ^the same^ Court and prayed that he might have the Liberty of Choseing a Certain
Alexander Lackey as his guardian which was granted and thereupon It was
Ordered ^by the Court^ That the Said Alexander Lackey Should make his personall appearance this Court to give
Security as the Law in Such Cases Directs &c

                Now here at this day to witt the Sixteenth day of August ann.o Dom One thousand Seven
hundred and twenty Six Came hereinto Court the afd Alexander Lackey in his proper person together
with John Caldwell and John Evans Sen.r both of Somersett County Gent his Securitys and did then and
there acknowledge themselves to Owe and Stand Justly Indebted unto the afd Mathew Nutter the Younger
in the Sum of one hundred pounds Sterr Joyntly and Severally upon their bodys goods or
Chattels Lands or tenements to be Levied for the Use of the Said Mathew Nutter the Younger his heirs
of assignes   In Case the Said Alexander Lackey Do not in Every Respect Comply with the
                                                                                                                               Law's


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