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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1725-1727
Volume 840, Page 51   View pdf image
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August Court            1725                      51

the Court that the Child born of the afd Ann Barton for which she stands presented for is a molatto
and whereas there is due to Somersett County Seven Years Service for an Such Inordinate Copulation
according to an act of assembly of this province and Likewise the said Child to become a servant for
one & thirty years to be disposed of for the use of the County thereupon the said Child is
sold by the Court unto James Lindow of Somersett County untill it arrives to thirty one years of age
    In Consideration ^thereof^ the said James Lindow is to pay unto and for the use of the County afd five hundred
and ten pounds of tobacco at the Next Levy Court thereupon the said Ann Barton is ordered home to
her masters service and to serve him after the Expiration of her servitude being adj six full months
which was adjudged by the Court as full satisfaction for trouble Loss of time & Charge her master was
at at the time of her delivery of the Child afd    Thereupon it ordered by the Court that the said James
Lindow give recognizance in twenty pounds sterr for to return here to the County Court or Sherr of
the County at the Expiration of her servitude Whereupon the said James Lindow acknowledged
himselfe to Owe and Stand Justly Indebted unto his Lordship the Lord proprietary in the sum of
twenty pounds Sterr to be Levied on his Body goods or Chattells Lands or tenements for the use
of his said Lordship   In Case he doth not deliver her up to the County Court or Sher of the County
at the Expiration of her servitude afd &c


The same
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William Whittington
 Somersett County fs     We of the Orphan Jury upon Our Oath do present that Will.m
Whittington of Somersett County Gentl: Guardiant to William White son of Stevens
White Late of the County afd Gent does not take Care to Educate the said William
    White according to the form of the act of assembly in Such Case made &c John Scarborough Foreman
           thereupon Command was given to the Sherr of Somersett County that he should Cause the afd William
    Whittington to Come before the Justices of his Lordships County Court to be held at Dividing Creek the
    third tuesday of August ^yn^  Next to answer unto his Lordship Concerning a Certain presentm.t against him
    found and that thereof he should not fail &c       Att which said third tuesday of August to witt the seventeenth
    day of the same month ann Dom One thousand seven hundred and twenty three five being the day
    of the return of the said Writt Cometh the sherr of Somersett County & maketh Return thereof Endorsed in
    these words following vizt      Cepi Corpus p Jos: MccClester Sherr

                Whereupon the said William Whittington in his own proper person appears and the presentm.t
    afd being unto him ^Read^ pleads not guilty and he says that it may be Enquired of by the County and
    Levin Gale who for his said Lordship in this behalfe prosecutes Likewise     
                                                                                                                            Thereupon Command
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1725-1727
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