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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1725-1727
Volume 840, Page 222   View pdf image
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       March Court            1726               222

His Lordship
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Francis Brooks

              Be it Remembred that this day to witt the twenty seccond
                   day of march one thousand Seven hundred and twenty Six Came into Court George
    Dashiell who for his Lordship Prosecutes and gives the Court to understand and being formed
    that a Certain Francis Brooks Late of Somersett County Cordwaner on the day of Ann Dom
    one thousand Seven hundred Twenty Six did Committ fornication with a Certain Mercy Stevens
    and on her Body did begitt a bastard Child against the pecie of the Lord proprietary of
    this province and against the forme of an Act of assembly of this province in Such
    Case made and Provided                     Dashiell prosecutor

                         Thereupon a Command was given to the Sherr of Somersett County that he Should
    take the afd Francis Brook's if &c to answer &c   And afterwards in the same Court Came
    the afd Francis Brooks and being by the Sherr sett to the bar is thereupon Immediately demanded
    how he would acquitt himselfe of the Premisses afd says that of the Premisses afd he is guilty thereof
    and prays that he may be admitted to make fine to his said Lordship for the fact afd and
    thereof puts himselfe in mercy of the said Lord proprietary

             Wherefore it is Considered by the Court that the afd Francis Brooks be fined to his said
    Lordship the Lord Proprietary thirty shillings for the fact afd and that the afd Francis Brooks
    be taken &c   whereupon It is ordered by the Court that the afd Francis Brooks give security
    for the fine afd and all the officers their fees due by occasion of the premises afd thereupon
    a Certain W.m Booth of the County afd present in Court pays thirty Shill.s for the said Francis
    Brooks for the fine afd and undertakes for to pay the Severall Officers their fees dues by
    means of the Premisses afd      Likewise it is ordered by the Court that the afd Francis
    Brooks give good security to save and keep Endempnifyed somersett County from all Costs
    Charges and troubles whatsoever for or by reason of the birth Nourishm.t and bringing up of the
    Child so as afd begott of the afd Marcy Stevens

          Whereupon the afd Francis Brooks together with the afd William Booth his security
    both present in Court in their proper persons acknowledged themselves to owe and
    Stand Justly Indebted unto the Inhabitants of Somersett County in the Sum of twenty pounds
    sterling good and Lawfull mony of England on their bodys goods or Chattells Lands or
    tenements Joyntly and Severally to be made and Levied for the use of Somersett County afd
    if it happen the afd Francis Brooks fail in the Condition under written

             The Condition of the above recognizance is such that if the above bounden Francis
    Brook's his heirs Exrs and adm.rs or any of them do and shall from time to time and at all times
                                                                                                                               hereafter


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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1725-1727
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