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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1725-1727
Volume 840, Page 96b   View pdf image
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                                March Court              1725                    96

The petition afd being read and heard and the premisses Considered      It's therefore Ordered by the Court that
a Commission Issue as by the Petition afd is praid &.c and that Joseph Pemberton, George Scott, James Macmorie
^and Thos Humphrys^ all of Somersett County Gent.m be Commissioners and Execute the same Commission according to act of
assembly in Such Case made and provided &c


Wm Planer
Petn for Sarah
Kirke
     To the worship Justices of Somersett County Court the Petition of W.m Planner Next
freind to Sarah Kirke a minor of the Said County     humbly Sheweth
          That the afd Sarah Kirke is possessed of two tracts of Lands Lying in the County afd one Called
Galloway the Other Recover the Boundarys whereof are decayed and Like to be Lost and the wittnesses
to prove them Ancient and Infirm      Your Petitioner therefore prays your worships to Issue a Commission
according to the act of assembly in Such Case Lately made to such persons as your worships shall
think proper to Examine Evidences to perpetuate the bounds of y.e Land afd &c

             The Pet.n afd being read and heard and the premisses Considered   It's therefore ordered that
a Commission ^Issue^ as by the Petition afd is prayd and that Robert King, Ephraim Willson, Thomas
Williams, and Jeffr'y Long all of Somersett County Court be Commissioners and Execute the same
Commission according to act of assembly in Such Case made and provided &c


His Lordship
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Bruffe Broughton
 We of the grand Jury do present Bruffe Broughton of Coventry Parish Planter for
Exacting demanding and receiving of Jno Banister Ex.rs for one nights Lodging
above what is in the table of Rates of Ordinary Keeping
          Merrick Ellis, Informer                                                                                 Adam Hitch Foreman

                    Thereupon Command is given to the Sherr of Somersett County that he Should take the
    said Bruffe Broughton if &.c to answer &.c  And afterwards in the Same Court Came the Said Bruff Broughton
    in Custody of the Sherr of Somersett County and being by the said Sherr Put to the Bar is thereupon
    Instantly demanded how he would acquitt himselfe of the premisses afd above upon Imposed says
    that of the premisses afd above him Imposed he is guilty thereof and puts himselfe in Mercy
    of the Lord proprietary and is willing to pay his fine for the fact afd

                   Wherefore it is Considered by the Justices here that the Said Bruff Broughton be fined
    to the Lord proprietary for the fact afd the Sum of five hundred pounds of tobo the one halfe thereof
    to be appropriated to the Publick School for Somersett County the other halfe thereof to the Informer
    or him or them that Shall Sue for the Same thereupon the Said Merrick Ellis the Informer present
    herein Court freely Remitteth his part of the fine afd thereupon the Said Bruffe Broughton is discharged
    he giving Security for the payment of all the Officers due by Occasion of the premisses afd

       Thereupon a Certain Jn.o Atkinson present here in Court undertakes for the said Bruffe Broughton for the
    payment of the Severall Officers Fees due by Occasion of the premisses afd &c


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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1725-1727
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