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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1733-1735
Volume 846, Page 117   View pdf image
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    March Court                           1733                    117

give Recognizance with one security for his appearance before the Justices of his Lordships County Court of
Somerset to be held at dividing Creek in and for the same County the third tuesday of June next to answer unto
a bill of Indictment for fornication and begetting of a bastard Child on the body of her the same Alice Hopkins &a 

                Thereupon the said Thomas Larimore Jun.r with John Larimore his security of Somerset County
planters both present here in Court in their proper persons acknowledged themselves Indebted unto his
Lordship the Lord proprietary in the Sum of Twenty pounds Sterling Each good and Lawfull money of
of their Severall Goods and Chattells Lands and tenements seperately to be made and Levied to the Use of
his said Lordship his heirs and Successors to be made and Levied   If it Happen that the afd Thomas
Larrimore Jun.r do not make his personall appearance before the Justices of his Lordships the Lord
proprietarys County Court of Somerset to be held at dividing Creek in and for the same County the third
tuesday of June next and do not Answer unto a Certain bill of Indictment against him for fornication
and begetting of a bastard Child on the body of the afd Alice Hopkins and do not stand and
abide the Judgment of the Court thereof and do depart thence without Leave &a


The Same
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Ambross Riggin Jun.r
 Somerset County ss.t
                                    The Jurors for the right Honourble the Lord proprietary
that now is for the body of Somerset County afd upon their Oath
Do present that Ambrose Riggin late of Coventry Parish in the
County afd planter the twentieth Day of December in the year of
Our Lord God Seventeen Hundred thirty and three at the parish afd in the County afd
Within the Jurisdiction of this Court in and upon a Certain Samuel Cooper in the peace of
God and of the same Lord proprietary then and there being with force and arms an
assault did make and the said Samuel then and there did beat would and Evilly treat so
that of this Life it was Greatly Dispaired and Other Harms to him then and there did to
the Great Damage of the same Samuel and against the Peace of the said Lord proprietary
that now is his Good Rule and Government &a

Test   SAmuel Cooper, James Townsend, Mary Wonnell

                                                 On the backside of the Foregoing Bill of Indictment it was Endorsed
viz.t Billa Vera Samuel Wilson foreman
                                                                               Thereupon Command was given tot he sheriffe of
Somerset County that he Should take ye said Ambross Riggin if &a to answer &a and afterwards to witt
the ninteenth day of march anno Dom One thousand seven hundred and thirty three before the Justices
of his Lordships the Lord proprietarys County Court of Somerset now held at Dividing Creek in
and ^for^ the County afd Came the said Ambross Riggin in his proper person and being Instantly
demanded how he would acquitt himselfe of the premisses afd above upon him Imposed says
that he will not plead with his said Lord ^prory^ but submitts with a protestation of his Innocency and puts
himselfe upon the favour of the Court &a    whereupon all and Singular the premisses by the Court
here seen heard and fully understood   It is Considered by the Court here that the said Ambross
                                                                                                                                     Riggin


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