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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1727-1730
Volume 841, Page 94b   View pdf image
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    June Court                            1728                 94

the Camp & that ye s.d white oake was his Bounder & further saith not      Taken before us ye day
and Year afd                                                                                                Joseph Venables
                                                                                                                   Thomas Humphrys

Robert King of Somersett County Gent.m Comes here into Court and brings with him a Certain
Thomas Travers a servant man of Madam Mary Hampton's who had absented himselfe out of
her service three hundred days and prays the Court that the said Thomas Travers may be adjudged
to serve his said Mistress according to act of assembly for the Runaway time afd the said Thomas Travers
being Present herein Court acknowledged that he had absented himselfe out of his ^said Mistress's^ service the full term
of time afd &.c   Whereupon the afd Thomas Travers is adjudged by the Court here to Serve his Said
Mistress Mary Hampton at the Expiration of his Indented Servitude three days for Every one day he
absented himselfe as afd which amounts in the whole to Nine hundred days   the said Nine hundred
days being adjudged full Satisfaction for the Runaway time afd and to Commence as afd &.c


Thomas Humphry's
Commission and affidavitts
 Somersett County fs  Charles absolute Lord and proprietary of the provinces of
Maryland and avalon Lord Baron of Baltemore &c  John Caldwell Joseph
Venables, Adam Hitch and Joseph Pemberton all of Somersett County Gentlem
Greeting Know ye that we have appointed you or any three or two of you to be our Commissioners
to Examine evidences on behalfe of a Certain Thomas Humphrys of the County afd in Relation to
the bounds of two tracts of Land the One Called Kaines Lott and the other Green Hill Lying in the County
afd we therefore Require you or any three or two of you at Some time and place as to you or any three
or two of you shall Seem Convenient you meet on the afd Land Called Kain's Lott, and Green Hill
you first haveing taken your Oath on the Holy Evangelist of almighty God according to act of
assembly in Such Case made & provided) & there Cause to Come before you or any three or
two of you all Such Evidences as Shall be to you or any three or two of you Nominated
by the Said Complaniant (or Deft if any) & yt you Examine them upon there Corporall Oaths
to be by you or any three or two of you administred on the Holy Evangelist of almighty
God in the presence of ye Complaniant (or Deft if any) touching the truth or remembrances
of their Knowledge or any thing that may relate to the Cause afd & that reduceing the severall
Depositions into Writing you send the same together with this our Commission under your or
any three or two of your hands to us to our Co.ty Co.t of Somrsett with all Conveniant Speed Wittness
Sam.l Hopkins Gent Chief Justice of our Said Court &a

On the Backside of the foregoing Commission it was thus Endorsed vizt

          March ye 9.th 1726/7 Came M.r Jn.o Caldwell & Cap.t Jos Venables & was Sworn to
Execute ye within Commission as the Law Directs                           Before me   Jn.o Handy


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