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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1730-1733
Volume 842, Page 85b   View pdf image
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              June Court            1731             85

Duncan late of Somerset County Schoolmaster the tenth day of aprill in the Year of our Lord God one thousand
Seven hundred and thirty One at Somerset County aforesaid within the Jurisdiction of this Court with force and armes
One Spannish pistole of the value of twenty two Shillings Currant mony of the proper Goods and Chattells
of a Certain Joshua Caldwell of the Same County planter then and there being found then and there feloniously
did take Steal and Carry away against the peace of the Said Lord proprietary his Good rule and Government
and Contrary to the form of the act of assembly in that Case made and provided &c
                                                                                                    L Gale Cl Indicts
Testes   Andw Rathbourn, Jos: Leonard, Joshua Caldwell Thomas Caton & Brent Nuttall

             On the back side of the foregoeing Bill of Indictment it was thus Endorsed viz.t Ignoramus Nicholas
                                                                                                                               Fountain Foreman

    Whereupon the Said Thomas Duncan being Called appears and thereupon the Said Thomas Duncan is ordered to Give
Security for the payment of the Severall Officers their fees due by Occasion of the premisses afd but for want thereof
the Said Thomas Duncan is Committed into the Custody of the Sher of Somerset County there to remain &.c  Afterwards in the
Same Court Came a Certain Joshua Sturges and Patrick Connelly of Somerset County and undertakes for the Said Thomas
Duncan to pay the Severall Officers their fees due by Ocasion of the premisses if the Said Thomas do not
pay the Same &.c thereupon the Said Thomas Duncan is discharged from the Committment afd &c


Milford a negro Boy of John Finch is adjudged by the Court to the age of twenty One Years &c


LG  Southy Whittington
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    Robert Ware
 Somerset ss     Forasmuch as Southy Whittington hath made appear to me the Subscriber
One of the Lord proprietarys Justices of the peace for Somerset County that Robert Ware late
of Somerset County planter is Justly Indebted unto him the Sum of Eighty Four pounds Six
Shillings CUrrant mony and Fifteen hundred pounds of tobacco and is Runaway and about to Remove his Effects out of
this province You are hereby required Immediately to Issue attachment against the Effects of the Said Ware for the
Said debt and all additional Costs and Charges that Shall a Crew thereon according to the form of the act of assembly
in that Case made and provided hereof fail not at Your perill and for so doeing this Shall be Your warrant Given
under my hand and Seal the twenty Sixth day of March anno Dom One thousand Seven hundred and thirty one
To Thomas Hayward Cl Somerset County                                                                           John Scott   (Seal)

                                  Robert Ware                              Dr
        To my being his Security for the Estate of Sarah Kirke orphan of John Kirke dec.d the which I am Obliged
        to pay on account of his being runaway &c                                                                                       £64..6..0
1729 To your note past to me for                                                                                                               20..0..0
          and fifteen hundred pounds of tobacco
                                  Errours Excepted P me         Southy Whittington

      March ye 27.th 1731   Then Came before me the Subscriber One of his Lordships Justices of the peace
for Somerset County Southy Whittington and made Oath upon the holy Evangelist of Almighty God that
the above account is Just and true and that he hath received nor part nor percell thereof the Same nor
any thing in Satisfaction                                                John Scott

             Pursuant to an act of assembly of this province now in force and by vertue of the above
             warrent was Issued the following attachment against the Goods and Chattells rights & Creditts of
             Robert Ware &c                                                                     Somrsett ss Charles


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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1730-1733
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