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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1727-1730
Volume 841, Page 96   View pdf image
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          June Court                        1728               96

          By Vertue of the Commission hereunto annexed by the Worshipfull the Justices of
Somersett County we hereby Certifie that on the above 29.th day of May 1728 we went to
snow hill Town in our own Proper persons & then and there haveing first duly Quallified
our selves According to Law had the above Bounds proved by the Depositions of Thomas
Slingo and Adam Spence being by us first Sworn upon the Holy Evangelist of almighty
God as Wittness Our hands                                                                  John Scott
                                                                                                          Francis Allen


His Lordship
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Mary Hopkins
 Information given to the grand Jury by Maj.r Planner that Mary Hopkins
servant woman of John Tilers Sen.r having a bastard Child about the first
of March Living in Coventry parish    Information given by Jno Evans smiths
Island                                             Adam Heatch foreman

                Thereupon Command was given to the Sherr of Somersett County that he should take
the said Mary Hopkins if &.c to answer &.c and afterwards in the Same Court Came the said
Mary Hopkins in Custody of the Sherr and being by the Said Sherr Putt to the barr is thereupon
Instantly demanded how she would acquitt herselfe of the primisses afd saith that of the
premisses afd she is Guilty thereof and putts herselfe in mercy of the Lord proprietary but
hath not wherewith all to pay her fine for the fact afd
                                  Whereupon it is Considered by the Court here that the afd Mary Hopkins be
whipt with fifteen Lashes on the bare back well Laid on untill the blood appear and that she
be taken &.c  And thereupon as to the Corporall Punishmt afd Command is given to the sher of
Somersett County that he do thereof Immediately Execution according to the Judgm.t afd rendered by
whiping of the afd Mary Hopkins at the publick whiping Post with fifteen Lashes on the bare
back well Laid on untill the Blood appear and afterwards in the Same Court the said Sher returns
that he has done the Execution of the Judgmt afd as to the Corporall punishmt afd he was Commanded
Whereupon it is Ordered by the Court that the afd Mary Hopkins return to her Masters
Service and that Jno Tyler her Master at the Expiration of her Servitude Return her to Somersett
County Court or the Sher of Said County to Reemburst to the County all the fees due by occasion of the
premisses afd &c


His Lordship
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Comfort Townsend
 We of the Grand Jury do present Comfort Townsend for Bearing a bastard Child about
the Last of 8.ber or there abouts                        James Townsend Informer
                                             Edmond Hough foreman
                               Thereupon Command was given to the Sherr of Somersett County that he should take the said
Comfort Townsend if she should be found in his Bailywick and her should safe Keep so that he might
                                                                                                                                              have


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