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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1725-1727
Volume 840, Page 221b   View pdf image
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           March Court          1726            221

being by the Court here seen heard and mature deliberation therupon had &.c  wherefore it is Considered
that the afd Mary Wilkerson Return home into the service of her said Masks Thomas Dashiell and
serve out her Indented time as by the same Indenture is Expressed; and further the Same Indenture
of the afd Mary Wilkerson is adjudged good                                                         &c

       The Reverend Thomas Fletcher Comes into Court and makes Oath that his Servant woman Named Ann
Barton had absented and Runaway Out of his Service twenty Eight days and that he had paid four
four hundred pounds of tobo for takeing her up and Likewise that he had been at other Charge &
trouble after her when Runaway and prays that she may be adjudged to serve for the same according
to Law &c    whereupon the Court having Considered the premisses   Its thereupon ordered
by the Court that the afd Ann Barton serve her said Master Thomas Fletcher his heirs or assignes six
days for our Every day she absented herselfe out of service afd which amounts in the whole to
one hundred and sixty Eight days as also the Said Ann Barton is adjudged by the Court to serve
her said Master for the afd four hundred pounds of tobo paid and other Charge and trouble whilst
Runaway one hundred and Ninty seven days &c   which said service adjudged for runaway
time and Charge and trouble in takeing ^up^ amounts to in the whole to one full year to Contain three
hundred and sixty five days ^which^ is adjudged by the Court for full satisfaction for the Runaway
time Costs Charges and trouble as afd which service afd adjudged is to Commence at the Expiration
of her already servitude &c


His Lordship
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Marcy Stevens
 We of the grand Jury for the body of Somersett County do present Marcy Stevens
Spinster of the parish of Somersett for bastard bearing and was delivered of
the same the first day of march one thousand Seven hundred and twenty Six
and she says that Francis Brooks was the only begetter and father of the said Child and she Confesseth
the above fact                                          James Rownd foreman

                   Thereupon Command was given to the Sherr of Somersett County that he Should take the
afd Marcy Stevens if &c to answer &c And afterwards here in Court to witt the third tuesday of march
being the twenty first day of the Same month Cometh the afd March Stevens and being by the Sherr
sett to the barr is thereupon Instantly demanded how she would acquitt for herselfe of the premises afd
says she is guilty thereof and prays that she may be admitted to make fine to his said Lordship the Lord
proprietary for the fact afd and thereof puts her selfe in mercy of the said Lord proprietary &c

          Wherefore it is Considered by the Court that the afd Marcy Stevens be take to satisfie of
the said Lord proprietary of her fine by occasion of the premisses afd and the same Marcy Stevens
is by the Justices fined to thirty shillings toward the defraying of the County Charge and is ordered to give
security for the fine afd and all the officers their fees due by Means of the premises thereupon W.m Both
of Somersett County Gent present herein Court pays the fine afd and undertakes for the fees afd &c


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