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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1725-1727
Volume 840, Page 162   View pdf image
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August Court               1726                      162

of this Court at & upon a Certain Lewis Jones in ye Peace of god & ye Lord Proprietary then &
there being An Assault did make & him did Beat wound & Evilly treat So that of his
Life it was dispair'd & Other harms to him y.e S.d Lewis then & there did doe to his Great
Damae & Against ye Peace &c whereof ye same Levin for y.e S.d Lord Proprietary prays
Advisement thereof ye Court upon ye Premisses &c & yt due Process of Law may
Issue &c
                         Thereupon Command was given to the Sherr of Somersett County that he should
take the said William Roberts and being by the Sherr Sett to the Bar is thereupon Instantly
demanded how he would acquitt himselfe if the premisses afd says that of the premisses
afd he is no ways guilty thereof and thereof for tryall putts himselfe upon the Country
and Levin Gale who for his said Lordship in this Bahalfe Prosecutes Likewise

       Whereupon the afd William Roberts afterwards in the Same Court in his proper person
Relinquisheth his verification afd and Says that of the Premisses afd as by the Information
above him him Imposed he is guilty thereof and is willing to make fine to his Lordship the
Lord proprietary for the fact afd   Wherefore it is Considered by the Justices here that the
afd William Roberts be fined to his Lordship the Lord proprietary for the fact afd the Sum
of One hundred pounds of tob.o and that he be taken &c, thereupon the Said William Roberts
is dischared paying the fine afd and the Severall Officers their fees due by Occasion of the
premisses afd &c


The Same
      agt
Thomas Newbold
 Somersett fs.    Be it Remembred that this day to witt ye Sixteenth day of
August Anno Dom one thousand Seven hundred & twenty Six Came into
Somrsett County Court Levin Gale Clk of Indictments for ye said County
& for ye Lord proprietary Gives ye Court here to understand & be informed
that Thomas Newbold Late of Somrsett County Planter being appointed
an Overseer of ye Highway Road from where Lazarus Maddox Limits Ends to Rahoboth
Being within y.e County afd & within ye Jur of this Court) By the Court of ye County afd on
the Nineteenth day of November Anno Dom One thousand Seven hundred & twenty three
then at Dividing Creek in y.e s.d County Judicially Sitting in the said County Judicially Sitting
hath Neglected to Keep the Said Road in Repair and Clear it within the Said Precints according
to the form of the act of assembly in Such Case made and provided against the form of the Said
act of assembly and against the Peace &c whereof the Said Levin for the Said Lord proprietary
prays advisement of the Court herein the premisses and that due process of Law may Issue &c
                                                                                                       L Gale P Dom P.ry

       Thereupon Command was given to the Sherr of Somersett County that he Should take the said
Thomas Newbold if &c to answer &c and afterward Came the Said Thomas Newbold hereinto
Court in his proper person ^and^ the Information being unto him read is thereupon Instantly
                                                                                                                         (demanded)


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