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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1727-1730
Volume 841, Page 119b   View pdf image
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                       August Court                       1728            119

was with Colo Whittington takeing up a peice of Land for Thomas Roe at the Devills Island and he Carried
the Chain and when they had Run out a peice of Land Called graves End at the uper end of the Said land
there was apost set in the marsh which he saw set Down to the Best of his Remembrance and that Thomas
Rooes Land Called Purgatory was on the South East Side of the Land Called graves End and that the
first Bounder of the Land Called Purgatory was Set at the point Called the Egles Nest point and
as Coll Whittington run the Length of the Land Called graves End this Deponient Carried the Chain
aCrose the Land Called Purgatory two or three times to try the Bredth aCrose it Being the Land then
taken up and further Saith not                                                                              Geo: Hutchins
at which place was Sett a Ceder Post
                                                                     Taken before us Day and                  Geo Dashiell   (seal)
Year afd as Wittness our hands and Seales at the said Land Called
Purgatory on their Corporall Oaths                                                                         Rob.t Jones    (seal)


His Lordship
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Eliz.a Ackman
 We of the grand Jury for the body of Somersett County do present Eliz.a Ackman
of said County for bearing of a bastard Child in the said County Information given
by Mr Ellis being born about the first of December 1727:  Adam Heatch foreman
          Thereupon Command was given to the Sherr of Somersett County that he Should take the said Eliz.a
Ackman if &.c to answer &.c
                                                 And afterwards in the Same Court Came the afd Eliz.a Ackman and
being by the Sherr sett to the bar is thereupon Instantly demanded how she would acquitt herselfe of
the premises afd says that of the premisses afd She is guilty thereof and prays that She may
be admitted to make fine to the said Lord proprietary for the fact afd

             Wherefore it is Considered by the Justices here that the afd Eliz.a Ackman be fined to his
Lordship for the fact afd ^thirty Shillings^ (and that she be taken &c) toward the defraying of the County Charge
thereupon the said Eliz.a Ackman is discharged and ordered to return into her Masters Service
and that her said Master Merrick Ellis Return her to the County Court or the Sher of the County for
the time being to reemburst to said County of Somersett all the fees due unto the severall officers
by Occasion of the premisses afd &c
                                                             Whereupon at the prayer of the afd Merrick Ellis the afd
Eliz.a Ackman is adjudged to serve him at the Expiration of her Servitude Six full Months
which is adjudged by the Court as full satisfaction for all troubles Charges and Loss of time in
her Lying in &c

Ann Potter Executrix of Thomas Potter and Eliz.a Denston Senr & Jun.r Executrices of W.m Denston being
summoned to Court to give Security for the ballance of their Estates are discharged by reason all
the Estate is given them by will of the decd &c


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