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August Court 1730
2 The petition aforesaid being Read and heard and fully understood and mature deliberation [illegible] wherefore it is Considered that the aforesaid Joseph Brittingham be discharged for the future from paying of Levys for the boy aforesaid as by the petition afd is paid praid &c
and at the Expiration of his servitude to give him a Loom four Suitable Slays two pair Gears and a new Suit of Cloaths over & above his wearing apperell and Likewise find and provide for his Said apprentice Sufficient meat drink washing Lodging and Cloathing mete for such an apprentice to have and wear during his Servitude afd Whereupon it is ordered by the Court that the aforesaid John Dennis give Recognizance in twenty pounds Sterling to Comply with the Covenants aforesaid &c Thereupon the said John Davis Jun.r present herein Court in his proper person acknowledged himselfe to owe and stand Justly Indebted unto the afd John Cook in the Sum of twenty pounds Sterling money of Great Brittaine to be Levied of his goods and Chattells Lands or tenements for the Use of the said John Cook his heirs or assignes if default be made in the Condition hereunder written The Condition of this Recognizance is such that if the above bounden John Dennis Jun.r his heirs Executors or administrators do and shall well and truely Learn the afd John Cook during his Servitude afd to Read well in the Bill and to write and at the Expiration of his Servitude give him a loom four Suitable Slays two pair of Gears and a new Suit of Cloaths over his wearing apparell and Likewise find for his said apprentice Sufficient meat drink washing Lodging and Cloathing mete for Such an apprentice to have and wear during his Servitude then the above Recognizance to be void otherwise &c
worships to appoint Commissioners to Examine Wittnesses to perpetuate and perpetuate bounds of the said Tract of Land Called Graves End and as in duty bound he shall pray &c John Windsor The Petition aforesaid being Read and heard and fully understood and mature deliberation thereupon had Wherefore it Considered by the Justices here that a Commission Issue to the afd John Windsor as by the petition afd is praid and that Levin Gale, John Jones, W.m Stoughton and Thomas Dashiell of Somerset County Gentlemen be Commissioners and Execute the Same Commission according to act of assembly in Such Case made and provided &c
Manny hundred above Sixty Years has served the County and payed taxes all along but now being past my Labour and having no servants to labour for me obliges me to apply to your worships that |
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