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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1733-1735
Volume 846, Page 152b   View pdf image
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       June Court        1734                         152

His Lordship
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Rebecca Porter
 Somerset County ss
                                      The Jurors for the right honrble the Lord Proprietary that
now is for the body of Somerset County afd upon their Oath do present that Rebecca
    Porter Late of Coventry parish in the County afd Spinster the first day of February in the Year of Our Lord
God seventeen hundred and thirty three at the parish afd in the County afd within the Jurisdiction of this Court
did Comitt fornication with a Certain person to the Jurors afd unknown and did permitt the Same Unknown
person then and there to have Carnall Knowledge of her body and to begett then and there a bastard
Child on the body of her the Same Rebecca to the high displeasure of almighty God to the Evill Example
of all Others in Such Case Offending Contrary to the peace of the said Lord proprietary that now is
his good rule and Government and against the act of assembly in Such Case Lately made and provided &a
    Test Daniel Long                           On the backside of the foregoing Bill of Indictment it was thus
Endorsed viz.t                        Billa vera   Samuel Wilson foreman


       Thereupon Command was given to the sherriff of Somerset County that he should take the said
Rebecca Porter if &a to answer &a and afterwards to witt the Eighteenth day of June anno Dom One
thousand Seven hundred and thirty four before the Justices of his Lordships County Court of Somerset here
being by the sherriff sett to the barr is thereupon Instantly demanded how she would acquitt herselfe of the
premisses afd says that of the premisses afd she upon her Imposed she is Guilty thereof but refuseth
to declare the father or begetter of the Child she stands Indicted for and is willing to pay her fine for the
fact afd &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 afd Rebecca Porter pay to his Lordship the Lord
Proprietary for her fine by the Court here upon her Imposed for and by Occasion of the premisses afd whereof
in form afd she is Convict thirty shillings Curr.t money to the Use of Somerset County afd and that the same
Rebecca Porter be taken to Satisfie his Said Lordship of the fine afd      whereupon the said Rebecca Porter
is ordered to give Security for the payment of the Severall Officers Fees due upon the Indictm.t afd by occasion
of the premisses afd  thereupon a Certain W.m Catlin of Somerset County planter present herein Court in his
proper person acknowledged himselfe Indebted unto his Lordship the Lord Proprietary in five pounds
Sterling of his body goods or Chattells Lands or tenements to the Use of the Officers of Somerset County
Court    In Case he doth not pay and Satisfie unto the Severall Officers their Fees due by means of the
Premisses afd   Likewise it is Ordered by the Court here that the said Rebecca Porter give security
for to Save and keep Harmless as well the Justices of Somerset County Court and their Successors for the
time being as also the Inhabitants of the Same County from all Costs Charges and troubles by reason of the
birth maintainance nourishing and bringing up of the bastard Child Lately begott on her body as afd
&a    Whereupon the afd Wm Catlin present herein Court as afd acknowledged himselfe to be Indebted unto his
Lordship the Lord proprietary in the sum of twenty pounds sterling of his goods and Chattells Lands
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