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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1725-1727
Volume 840, Page 18   View pdf image
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June Court             1725          18

whereupon the petition afd being read and heard and all and singular the premisses Considered
as well on the Part of the afd Petitioner as on the part of the said Nehemiah Nicholson the said
Nehemiah Nicholson being present in Court Could noe ways make it appear to the same Court by
what he holds and detaines the same James Green as a Servant &c

                Wherefore it is Ordered by the Court that the said James Green from the service of
the afd Nehemiah Nicholson be acquitt and goe thereof free &c

         Whereas a Certain Capt John Tunstall having turn'd the road by his quarter at Manocan
and Capt John Jones and William Stoughton Esq.r being Requested to veiw the ^New^ Road and make
their Report to this Court         Whereupon In pursuance to the request the afd John Jones &
William Stoughton went on the same New road and makes Report as followeth that the same
New road is well Cleared & made Sufficient by ditching &c    thereupon Its ordered by the Court
that the Same New road Remain and Continue a maine Road unalterable for the Use of the County &c


Miles Sweeny
     adjudged
for runaway time
 Cap.t James Lindow Comes into Court and Exhibitts an acco.t against his Servant
Man Named Miles Sweeny for runaway time and Charge and trouble in Pursuite
of the said Miles Sweeny and in takeing him up     and Likewise the said Lindow made
       Oath that the said Sweeney had absented ^himselfe^ out of his service Eleven days (and after the runaway time
       afd the said Lindow sold the said Sweeny to Capt Robert King)   thereupon the said Miles
       Sweeny is adjudged by the Court to serve his Master Robert King five days for Every day he absented
       himselfe out of his service afd which amounts to fifty five days and Likewise the said Miles
       Sweeney is adjudged to serve the said Robert King forty two days being full satisfaction satisfaction
       for two hundred pounds of tobacco paid for takeing him upon and twenty Shillings for other Charges
       the said Lindow was at in pursuit of the said Sweeny when runaway
       which servitude in the whole doth amount to Ninety Seven days all which servitude to Commence
       at the Expiration of the said Sweeny's Indented time which is adjudged full Satisfaction for the
       Runaway time and Charge and trouble ^the said Lindow was at^ in takeing up of the said Sweeny as afd &c

          Upon the mocon of Capt John Donelson adm.r of Samuel Cox Esq.r dec.d to have the Negro's
       of the said Samuel Cox tax free he being designed to send them Back to Barbados from whence they
       Came   which is Granted &c provided he send them away by Novem Court Next &c

       Patrick Dennison a suspected Runaway being brought into Court is ordered to give security for his
       appearance at next Court            thereupon a Certain Thomas Renchor of Somersett County
       Gent present here in Court undertakes for the said Patrick Dennison and acknowledged
                                                                                                                         (himselfe)


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