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June Court
1734
170 Test John Jackaman Timothy Atkinson On the backside of the foregoing bill of Indictment it was thus Endorsed vizt At true Bill William Jones Foreman Thereupon Command was given to the sherriffe of Somerset County that he should take the said John Evans if &a to answer &a and afterwards to witt the Eighteenth day of June One thousand seven hundred and thirty four before the Justices of his Lordships County Court of Somerset now here held at dividing Creek Cometh the said John Evans according to according to a Certain Recognizance by him and his pledges in that part before acknowledged in his proper person and had a hearing of the Indictment afd and says that he is not thereof Guilty and of this he putts himselfe upon the Country and William Goldsborough Gent who for his said Lordship in that part followeth likewise Thereupon it is Commanded the sherriff of Somerset County that Immediately he should cause to Come here before the Justices of his Lordships County Court of Somerset now held at dividing Creek in the County afd twelve &a by whom &a and who neither &a to recognizance &a because as well &a and afterwards came Immediately thereof the Jury &a and the Jurors of that same Jury by Joshua Caldwell Gent sherriff of the County afd to this Impannelled being Called Came to witt John Donelson, Adam Spence Jun.r John Roach Joseph Gray John White Joseph Miller Michael Godwin John Webb, Robert Collier James Smith Jonathan Bounds and Angello Atkinson who to say the truth of the premisses being elected tryed and Sworn upon their Oath do say that the afd John Evans is guilty of the Felony in the Indictment ([illegible] as to the stealing of the Suit of duroy Cloaths and razor) mentioned and as to the residue of the goods mentioned in the Indictment afd to be stolen the ^said^ John Evans is not Guilty &a Whereupon all and Singular the premisses here seen heard and fully understood Whereupon the Justices here according to act of assembly in Such Case made and provided did value the Suit of duroy Cloaths and razor fou by the Jurors afd found to be Stolen by the afd John Evans to two hundred and fifty one pounds of tobacco Wherefore it is Considered by the Justices here that the afd John Evans pay unto the afd John Jackaman the party Grieved four fold of the Value of the afd Suit of duroy Cloaths and razor found to be stolen amounting in the whole to One thousand and four pounds of tobacco and that the afd Suit of duroy Cloaths and razor be restored to the afd John Jackaman and that the said John Evans be whipt with twenty Lashes on the bare back well laid on untill the boold appear and that he stand in the pillowry One ^quarter of an^ hour and that he be tacken &a And thereupon as tot eh Corporall punishment afd It is Commanded the sherriff of Somerset County that he do thereof Immediate Execution according to the Judgm.t afd rendered by whiping of the afd John Evans at the publick whiping post with twenty Lashes on the bare back well Laid on untill the blood appear and by sitting him in the pillowry One ^quarter of an^ hour afterwards in the same Court the said sher Returns that he has done the Execution of the Judgment afd as to the Corporall punishment afd he was Commanded &a Afterwards the said John Evans present herein Court is Committed into the Custody of the sherriffe of Somerset County untill the four fold and Fees should be fully satisfied &a the said sher present herein Court took Charge |
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1733-1735
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