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June Court
1727
269 whereby he held or detained the Said Peter Swell as a servant &c Wherefore it is Ordered by the Court that the afd Peter Swell from the Service of the afd Rowland Beavins be acquitt and that the afd Rowland Beavins pay unto Joseph Houston a debt to the Value of Sixteen hundred pence and Sixty Pence for the afd Peter Swell according to an agreem.t made between the afd Rowland Beavens and the afd Peter Swell &c And further it is ordered by the Court that the afd Rowland Beavens pay unto the afd Peter Swell the Sum of One hundred and Ninty Eight pounds of tobo for his Costs and Charges in this behalfe Laid Out and Expended &c Ordered by the Court that Thomas Ralph be overseer of the roads in Nanticoke hundred in the stead of George Dashiell sen.r to Clear from a tree Called Colloways tree along the Road to the Lower ferry over Nanticoke River and from the head of Tipquin to quanticoe Mill and from the head of Tipquin halfe way to Stepney Parish Church and from Will.m Joyles' halfe way ^to^ the road that Leads up wickacomoco River &c
of alhollows parish in Somersett ^the^ County afd spinstress on or about ye Last day of May Anno Dom one thousand Seven hundred & twenty Six at ye parish & County afd within the Jur of this Court did Comitt fornication with a Certain person to this Jury unknown by reason whereof ye said Rosannah Cavonough was Delivered of a female Bastard Child on the or about ye Last Day of Febry Anno Dom one thousand Seven hundred & twenty Six at ye place afd within ye afd Jurisdiction to ye great Dishonour of almighty god & against ye peice of ye right honourable ye Lord proprietary of this province his good rule & government and against the forme of an act of assembly of this province Dashiell Cl of Indictments On the Back side of the foregoeing Bill of Indictm.t it was thus Endorsed viz.t Billa Vera Wm Lane Foreman Thereupon Command was given to the sherr of Somersett County that he should take the afd Rosannah Cavanough Late of Somersett County otherwise Called Rosannah Cavanough ^late^ of alhollows Parish in the County afd Spinster if she should be found in his bailywick and her should safe keep |
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