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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1725-1727
Volume 840, Page 89b   View pdf image
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           March Court        1725                 89

in the Same Court the Sherr Returns that he hath done the Execution of the Judgm.t afd as to the Corporall punishment
afd he was Commanded   thereupon it is Considered and Ordered by the Justices that the Said Thomas
Travers Serve his said mistress Mary Hampton her heirs or assignes Eight full months to Comence at the Expiration
of his now Indented servitude (to the said Mary Hampton) it being adjudged by the Court as Full Satisfaction
for the four fold afd &.c  Whereupon the Said Mary Hampton undertakes to deliver up the said Thomas
Travers to the Court or Sherr of the County at the Expiration of his servitude to reemburst the County all the
Officers their Fees due by Occasion of the premisses afd thereupon the Said Thomas Travers is discharged &c


Jn.o Redish
    Pet.n for Comsn
      To the worshipfull Justices of Somersett County in Court now Sitting     the petition
of Jn.o Redish     Your worships humble Petitioner being Possessed of a peice of Land
                            Called Castlehaven whose bounders Cannot be proved by Levin Evidences and is deprived of
the use of his said Land by his Neighbour that denyeth the truth of his Bounder your humble petitioner
humbly desireth that your worships would be pleased to ordain Commissioners according to the act of
assembly for the proving of Bounders and your humble Petitioner as in duty bound shall Ever pray

                The Pet.n afd being Read and heard and the premisses Considered   It is therefore Ordered by
the the Court that a Commission Issue as by the Petition afd is praid and that Joseph Venables James
MccMorie, Robert Givans and Joseph Pemberton all of Somersett County Gent be appointed Commissioners
to Execute the Commission afd according to Law in Such Case provided &c


Mary Recks
Pet.n and ordered
home as a servant
          To the worshipfull Court the humble Pet.n of Mary Rekes being sould a servant
to John Johnson by a Certain Alexander Argoe of Somersett County Living
                         On the Island who bought me of One Nehemiah Messix who had noe Right to me neither
from under hand nor noe Other way Only my Passage from the main to the Islands who promised me
to Carry me for nothing who used me very Barbarously and his wifes Brother and Sister threatned ye
Said Alexander Argoe to Carry me to the main and toll how he Used me as Soon as he heard that
he brought me to the main and Sold me to One Jn.o Johnson for fifteen Months and hath Nothing to
Shew no Indenture nor nothing Els and wants to Oblige me to Serve for nothing only my Passage
from the Main to the Islands Your petitioner desires Your Worships that She may have her Liberty
to goe about her Own Business the man having noe authority to sel me and your Petitioner as in
duty bound Shall Ever pray &c                    The Petition afd being read and heard and the premisses
Considered as well on the Part of the Said Petitioner as on the part of the Said Jn.o Johnson and
Likewise their Severall allegeations being maturelly weighed by the Court  It is ordered by the Court
that the Said Mary Rekes return to the Service of her Master John Johnson and Serve Out her Indented
time and Likewise the Said Indenture is adjudged by the Court to be good Indenture &c 

    Whereupon the Said Jno John^son^ Undertakes to pay the Severall Officers their Fees due by occasion
of the Premisses afd which amounts to two hundred and Sixty four pounds of tobo  Whereupon the
Said Mary Rekes is adjudged to serve the said John Johnson his heirs or assignes four full months
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