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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1730-1733
Volume 842, Page 303   View pdf image
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       June Court      1733               303

thereupon had   Wherefore it is Considered that the afd Richard Driskill pay unto his Lordship the right
honrble the Lord proprietary One hundred pounds of tobacco for his fine for the trespass and assault
in the In the Information afd Contained whereof he is Convict and that the said Richard Driskill be
taken to Satisfie his said Lordship of the fine afd the Sher of Somerset County to witt Joshua Caldwell
Gent present herein Court took Charge of ye said Richard Driskill accordingly &c

Likwise the said Richard Driskill is ordered by the Court here to give Security as well for the
Severall Officers their fees due on a Jury sworn against him for Robert in March Court Last past
as for the Severall Officers Fees due by means of the premisses afd   Thereupon a Certain Moses Duskey
present here in court undertakes for the said Richard Driskill to pay the Severall Officers Fees due on the
Jury Sworn in march Court Last afd as the Severall Officers Fees due by Occasion of the premisses
on the Information afd &c


Littleton Bowen appears according to his Recognizance Entered into for his good behaviour
and appearance to answer his being Suspected of Chosing a guiney &c and nothing being Objected against
him the said Littleton Bowen is discharged &c


His Lordship
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Thomas Vance
 Somerset ss
                                     Be it remembred that on the twentyeth day of June
anno Dom One thousand Seven hundred and thirty three Comes into Court before the
                         the worshipfull William Fasit Esq.r and his associates Justices of the Same Robert Jenckins
Henry Gent who prosecutes for the Lord proprietary and gives the Court to understand and be Informed
that Thomas Vance late of the Said County planter the twentieth day of March in the Year of Our Lord
One thousand Seven hundred and thirty One in the County afd within the Jurisdiction of this Court did
Committ fornication with a Certain Sarah Gorde of the County afd Spinster and on the body of the
said Sarah then and there did begett a bastard Child to the high displeasure of Almighty God and
to the Evill Example of all others in Such Cases offending and against the form of the act of
assembly in Such Cases made and provided   wherefore the said Robert Jenckins Henry prays ye
advise of the Court in the premises and due process of Law thereon against the said Thomas
may Issue
                Thereupon command was given to the sherriffe of Somerset County that he should take the said
Thomas Vance if &c to answer &c and afterward in the Same Court to witt the twentieth day of June Anno Dom
One thousand Seven hundred and thirty three before the Justices of the same Court Came the said Thomas Vance by
Francis Allen his attorney and had a hearing of the Information afd and Says that he Cannot gainsay but that
the said Thomas Vance is guilty of the premisses in the Information afd in manner and form above against
                                                                                                                                                       him


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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1730-1733
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