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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1733-1735
Volume 846, Page 156b   View pdf image
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                  June Court           1734             156

Satisfie unto the said Severall Officers their Fees due from the said Sam Atkinson upon the Indictment afd &a

          Likewise it is Ordered by the Court here that the afd Samuel Atkinson is ordered by the Court here
to 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 said Child Lately begott on the body of the afd
Elizabeth Fittne &a     Whereupon the said Samuel Atkinson with Isaac Atkinson of Somerset County Cooper
his Security both present herein Court in their proper persons acknowledged themselves Indebted unto
his Lordship the Lord proprietary in the Sum of twenty pounds Sterling Each of their good and Chattells
Lands and tenements seperately to be made and Levied to the Use of Somerset County  If it happen that
the aforesaid Samuel Atkinson do not from time to time and at all times hereafter acquitt discharge and
save harmless as well the Justices of Somerset County Court and their Successors for the time being as also the
Inhabitants of the Same County of and from all Costs Charges and troubles and burthens whatsoever for an
by reason of the birth maintainance nourishing and bringing up of the said Child and from all suits troubles
Charges and demands whatsoever touching or Concerning of the Same &a


Laurence Eddes and
Uxor
               pet.n   @
Thomas Fletcher
 Somerset County ss
                                       To the worshipfull the Justices of Somerset County the petition
of Laurence Eddes and Ann his wife sheweth that your female petitioner hath been
detained by Thomas Fletcher of for a Considerable time viz.t for the Space of five
months beyound what she by Law was Oblidged to serve him Your petitioners
    therefore pray your worships to Grant an Order against the said Fletcher for Such Sum as your
worships shall think a Sufficient recompence for such her five months service beyound the time your
female Petitioner was Oblidged to serve him

       Thereupon Command was given to the sherriffe of Somerset County that he should Immediately Sumons
the afd Thomas Fletcher that he be and appear before the Justices of his Lordships County Court of Somrset
now held at dividing Creek to answer the petition of the afd Laurence Eddes and Ann his wife &a 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 now here held at dividing Creek in and for the County
and Came the said sher to witt Joshua Caldwell Gent and made return that he had sumoned the afd
Thomas Fletcher as afd he was Command   and thereupon Came here into Court as well the fd Petitioner
as the afd Thomas Fletcher in their proper persons  and the petition afd being read and heard
and the severall allegations as well on the part of the petitioner afd as on the part of the afd Tho.s
Fletcher and mature deliberation thereupon had   It appears to the Justices here upon their Inspection
into the afd Anns Indenture and the records of Somerset County Court that the afd
Ann Eddes wife of the afd Laurence Eddes was detained in servitude by the afd Thos Fletcher and
his assignes as a servant five full months Longer and above the time that she was to Serve by her
                                                                                                                                  Indenture


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