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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1725-1727
Volume 840, Page 20b   View pdf image
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June Court           1725                20

and puts himselfe in Mercy of the said Lord proprietary and prays that he may be admitted to make
fine to the said Lord proprietary for the fact afd   Wherefore it is Considered by the Court that the said
Samuel Taylor be fined to his Lordship the Lord proprietary the sum of two hundred & twenty Nine pounds
pounds of tobacco for the fact afd thereupon the said Samuel Taylor is discharged from the presentmt
afd paying the severall Officers their Fees due by occasion of the premisses afd &c

          Whereas a Certain Mary Wood Craft being sumoned to attend this Court to give security for the Ball
of Richard Wood Crafts Estate did not appear thereupon his Lordships writt of attachm.t Issued to the ^Sherriff^
to attach the said Mary Woodcraft to appear before the Justices of said Court to give security &c   Now
hereat this fifteenth day of June Anno Dom One thousand seven hundred & twenty five Cometh the said
Mary Wood Craft    and forasmuch as the said Mary W^o^odcraft doth make it appear to the same
Court that she was Noe ways Obliged to give security according to Law thereupon the said Mary
woodcraft is discharged paying her fees by occasion of the premisses afd &c


His Lordship
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James Polk
 Somersett County fs:    By Order of the Court of the Right honrble Charles absolute Lord
and Proprietary of the provinces of Maryland and avalon Lord Baron of Baltemore &c
held for Somersett County at dividing Creek the Sixteenth day of march anno Dom one
thousand seven hundred and twenty four (Came into Court a Certain William Stoughton Esqr One
of the Justices of the County afd and made Complaint that a Certain James Polke of Somersett County
Planter had abused him and said he did not do him Justice and that he Owed him a Spite or Else
he would not have done as he did) &c                To the Sherr of Somersett County Greeting We Command
you that you take the Said James Polk and him safe Keep so that you have him before
the Justices of his said Lordships County Court of Somersett to be held at Dividing Creek the third
tuesday of June next to answer the abuse afd and to do and receive what the same Court
Shall Consider of hereof fail not at your perill and have you then and there this Writtness
Samuel Hopkins Gent Cheife Justice of Our said Court this 20.th day of march in the Ninth year
of his said Lordships dominion &c Anno Dom 1724         p order      Thomas Hayward Cler

       Att which said third tuesday of June ^to witt^ being the fifteenth day of the same Month anno Dom one
thousand seven hundred & twenty five being the day of the Return of the said Writt Cometh ye
Sherr of Somersett County to whom the foregoeing writt was directed Cometh and maketh return
thereof to the Court here Endorsed viz.t Cepi Corpus p me      Joseph MccClester Sherr

          Whereupon the said James Polk in his Own proper person appears and being
demanded if he had any thing in his own defence to Offer &c    But the said James Polk had
Nothing in his ^own^ defence to offer that was Materiall and the Matter of fact afd being proved upon
                                                                                                                                           (him)


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