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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1730-1733
Volume 842, Page 301b   View pdf image
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June Court           1733                            301

to serve one John ^Michael^ Schanaver of Boston in New England to Serve him for the Space of four Years which time has been
Expired since the first day of last November butt the said John Michael Schanaver thro' threats of Ill usage forst
your petitioner to sign a new Indenture before the Old One was Expired which new Indenture will hold your petitioner
a year Longer then she by her first Indenture was Obliged to Serve he sending your petitioner by Capt Moses
Chaille to be sold the said Capt Chaille sold your petitioner to Christopher Glass who saw Capt Chaille have my first
Indenture altho' he Bought me by the new one

                                     Therefore your worships petitioner prays your worship will be pleased to take it into
your Consideration and Set your petitioner at Liberty and your petitioner as in duty bound will pray &c
                                                                                                                                                 Ann More

                Whereupon the afd Christopher Glass and the said Ann More being both present here in Court in
their proper persons the petition afd being Read and heard and all and Singular the premisses as well on the
part of the said Christopher Glass as on the part of the afd petitioner and also what James Martin of Somrset
County Gent delivered upon Oath in relation to the said petioners Indentures and the Communication that past
between the said Christopher Glass and the said Moses Chaille at the time of the Sale of the petitioner afd all
which being Impartially weighted and duly Consulted by and among the Justices of the Same Court &c

             It is Therefore Considered that the Same Inde^n^ture by which the afd Christopher Glass held and detained
the said Ann More the petitioner as a servant is not good nor Sufficient in Law to hold or detain the said Petitioner
as a servant any Longer and that the said petitioner be thereof acquitt and goe thereof without day &c


Sambo a negro man (of Mr William Planner) being Antient and Infirm is adjudged by the Court to be tax free
for the future &c

Att the prayer of M.r James Martin of Somerset County Gent he is discharged from paying of taxed for his Negro
woman Moll she being antient and Infirm) for the future &c


Mathew Purnall
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     To the worshipfull Justices of Somerset County Court Your petitioner
humbly sheweth that he has a negro man which has been a Cripple by Loosing
the use of one of his armes these three years past so that he has done him
no service he finding no hopes of his doing any work for the future he being at great Charge by Imploying
a docter all to noe Effect your petitioner prays your worships to acquitt him from paying any Levys
for the said negro and your petitioner as in duty bound shall ever pray         Mathew Purnall

          The petition afd being Read and heard and fully understood and Mature deliberation thereupon had   therefore
it is Considered by the Court here that the afd Mathew Purnall be discharged from paying of Taxes for the afd
Negro untill he Comes to the use of his arm againe &c

Nicholas Fountain of Somerset County Gentleman appointed Overseer of the Roads in the Stead of
David Wilson for the Ensuing Year &c


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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1730-1733
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