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November
Court Ann.o 1728
136 the said Levin Powell both Reall and personall and that the afd James Howston give good Security to Comply with ^the^ Law in Relation to gardians &c Whereupon the afd James Howston with John Brittingham and Isaac Wheler his Securitys all present here in Court in their proper persons acknowledged them selves to owe and stand Justly Indebted unto the afd Levin Powell in the Sum of One hundred pounds Currant money good and lawfull money of Maryland of their goods and Chattells Lands and tenements for the use of the afd Levin Powell his heirs or assigns Seperately to be made and Levied if default be made in the Condition here under written The Condition of the above Recognizance is Such that if the above bound James Howston do and shall well and truly Comply with the law in Every Respect in Relation to the gardenship afd and Likewise quietly and peaceably deliver up unto the afd Levin Powell all his Estate that he hath in his hands both Reall and Personall when he shall arrive at full age to Receive the same than the above recognizance to be void and of None Effect otherwise &c
(racklifs late discovery) and your petitioner as in duty bound shall Ever pray Nicholas + Warren marke The petition afd being Read and heard and fully understood Wherefore it is Considered by the Justices here that a Commission Issue to the afd Nicholas Warren as by the petition afd is prayd and that James Rownd, Edward Rownd, Isaiah Bredall and Joseph Gray 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
by the Court here that the afd Mary Rickards serve the afd John Turpin his heirs or assigns Seven days for every ^one^ day that she absented herselfe out of his servitude which amounts too two hundred and fifty two days also the afd Mary Rickards is adjudged to Serve her said Master his heirs or assignes one hundred and twenty days being full Satisfaction for two hundred pounds of tobacco paid on accot of taking her up when Runaway ^as afd^ &c the said two hundred and fifty two days and One hundred and twenty days amounts in the whole to three hundred and Seventy two days when ^which^ is adjudged full Satisfaction for the runaway time and Charge in taking up as afd which said Servitude is to Commence at the Expiration of her Servitude already Commenced &c Ordered by the Court that Adam Spence Jun.r be Overseer and Clear the Road further than his former Limitts vizt to Clear a road through a Swamp Called Aarons Swamp and that William Brittinghams Labourers Prior Webbs, Dunnock Dennis Jun.r Geo: Mumford and Widdow Dredons Labourers be added to the said Adam Spence and that Mr Jno Purnall se the road be Cleared &c |
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