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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1730-1733
Volume 842, Page 27b   View pdf image
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            November Court   1730         27

James Townsend &
John Sheldon  petn
 To the worshipfull his Lordships Justices of Somerset County now in Court Sitting the humble
petition of James Townsend and John Sheldon Sheweth

                            That your petitioners are possed with a tract of Land Called Greens Chance whose bounds are decayed
and almost Lost  Your petitioners humbly pray your worships to appoint Commissioners to Examine Evidences in order
to prove and perpetuate the Said Bounds according to act of assembly in Such Cases provided and Your petitioners
as in duty bound shall pray &c                        James Townsend      Jno Sheldon

                   The petition aforesaid being Read and heard and fully understood & mature deliberation thereupon had
       Wherefore it is Considered by the Court here that a Commission Issue to the aforesaid James Townsend & John Sheldon
       as by the petition aforesaid is praid and that William Lane, William Handy, John Stewart & Robert Mitchell of
       Somerset County Gentleman be Commissioners & Execute the Same Commission according to Law &c


John Gurling
     Pet.n ag.t
           To the worshipfull Court the humble petition of John Gurling     May it pleas your worships the humble
petitioner Sheweth that your petitioner hath served as a servant duly and truely for the Space
of Sixteen Years to James MccMorie of this County and to his assignes being not unknown to this worshipfull
       Court in so much that this worshipfull Court hath heretofore taken notice of the Hardships and Severities
       I have endured      may it therefore please your worships the Said James MccMorie being by Indenture Oblidged
       to pay me at the Expiration of the Said term of Sixteen Years one ere and One Sufficient Suit of apparel
       that is to Say a hat a Coat and britches &.c as also by Indenture bound to teach me Your humble petitioner
       to Read the want whereof is a great Loss to me as your worships may easily Immagine &.c may it please
       your worships therefore to take Your petitioner into your worships due Consideration being your petitioner
       by God's Will is grown Indigent Scarce able to gett my Living by my labour being afflicted in my Limbs
       as by many can be wittnessed for which your worships Care in ordering the Said Mr Macmory to pay me my
       due as abovesaid your petitioner will be ever in duty bound to pray      John Gurling

       The petition afd being Read and fully understood and mature deliberation thereupon had as well
on the part of the aforesaid James MccMorie as on the part of the petitioner as also the allegations of both parties
who were present here in Court &c
                                                                      Wherefore it is Considered by the Court here that the afd James MccMorie
pay unto the afd John Gurling one ewe hat coat and britches as by the Indenture and petition aforesaid he was
before Obliged to doe &c


His Lordship
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Sarah Hull al.s Davis
   We of the Grand Jury for the body of Somerset County do present Sarah
Hull alias Davis for bearing of a bastard Child in Coventry parish about
the first of August Last past          Capell king      foreman

         Thereupon Command was Given to the Sherr of Somerset County that he Should take the Said Sarah
Hull alias Davis if &.c to answer &.c and afterwards in the Same Court Came here the Said Sarah
Hull alias Davis in her proper person and forthwith of the premisses in the presentm.t afd Specified
above upon her Imposed being asked how She would acquitt herselfe thereof the Same Sarah Hull
al.s Davis says that She Cannot Gainsay but that She is Guilty of the premisses afd in the presentmt
                                                                                                                                           afd


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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1730-1733
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