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June Court ann.o
1729 183 Said Master for the afd four pounds Eight Shillings paid for pursuing apprehending tak and Imprisonment fees one hundred and fifty days which said Service of three hundred and Sixty days and one hundred and fifty days amounts to in the whole to five hundred and ten day Which said Service is to Commence at the Expiration of his already Servitude and Likewise the afd five hundred and ten days is adjudged by the Court as full Satisfaction for the runaway time afd and the afd four pounds Eight Shillings paid as afd &.c Ordered by the Court that the afd George Banes take into his Care and Custody a Certain Joseph Chapman now Lying in a distracted Condition untill the next Court and he shall be allowed for the same &c Ordered by the Court that Jones Records be Overseer of the Roads in Baltemore hundred from the head of the Indian Town Branch over a beaver Dam into the road to George Howards Plantation and from Ceaver Goddins up the river to the head of Peppers Creek &c
Thereupon Command was Given to the Sherr of Somersett County that he should take the said Eliz.a Downs if &.c to answer &.c and afterwards herein the Same Court Came the Said Elizabeth Downs in her Own proper person and being by the Sher Sett to the bar and thereupon the said Eliz.a Downs prays hearing of the Presentment aforesaid and it is Read unto her and thereupon the said Eliza Downs says that of the premisses afd she is Guilty thereof and makes Oath that a Certain George Horner is the begetter of the Child she Stands presented for Therefore it is Considered by the Court that the afd Eliz.a Downs be taken to Satisfie his Lordship the Lord proprietary of the fine by Occasion of the premisses afd which same Eliz.a Downs then and there present in Court aforesaid prays that she may be admitted at fine with his said Lordship by occasion afd and thereupon putts herselfe in mercy of his said Lordship and the fine of the same Eliz.a Downs by the Justices afd is assessed to fi thirty shillings to the use of defraying the County Charge &c thereupon it is Considered by the Court the afd Eliz.a Downs give Security for the payment of the fine afd and all the Officers their fees due by Occasion of the premisses afd thereupon a Certain Hugh Porter of the County afd Planter present here in Court undertakes for the afd Eliz.a Downs for to pay the severall Officers their fees due by means of the premisses afd &c
Tyler whose son Thomas begatt a Child by her and refuses to allow her any thing of assistance towards maintaining the Same Your Petitioner humbly prays your worship will Cause the said parties to appear before you that upon a full hearing of the matter your worships may afford her such reliefe as in your wisdome you shall see fitt and as in duty bound shall ever pray Mary Hopkins thereupon |
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