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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1733-1735
Volume 846, Page 182   View pdf image
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    August Court               1734            182

        Elgate Hitch appointed
guardian to Eve Price
   Elgate Hitch of Somerset County planter present herein Court in
his proper person is appointed by the same Court here as Guardian to
a Certain Eve Price an Orphan under the age of Fourteen Years the said
    Elgate Hitch present herein Court as aforesaid accepted of the Guardianship afd &a

Whereupon it is Ordered by the Court here that the said Elgate Hitch take the said Eve Price
orphan as afs.d and her Estate personall into his care and possession untill she arrives
at full age for the Chosing of her Guardian and Likewise that he give Security for
to Comply with the Guardian Ship afsd &a    Whereupon the said Elgate Hitch
together with Isaac Handy and Samuel Fluellen both of somerset County planters
his Securitys all present here in Court in their proper persons acknowledged themselves
to be Indebted unto the said Eve Price in the sum of forty pounds Sterling
of their bodys Goods or Chattles Lands or tenaments to the use of the said
Eve Price her heirs or Assignes to be made and Levied if it happen that the said
Elgate Hitch do not Comply with the Law in Relation to such Guardians as af.d
and do not deliver up unto the afs.d Eve Price or to her Guardian to be by her
Chosen when she shall arrive at full age to Chose the same all her Estate
personall that he shall have in his hands and possession peceably and Quietly
when ever the same shall be Legally Required &a


Roger Mace
    bound to
Benj.a Lebruse
 Roger Mace a poor fatherless Child as 'tis thought is bound by
the Court unto Benjamin Lebruse untill he arrives at the age
of Twenty One Years the said Roger Mace being Six Years of
            age the twenty ninth day of November Next the said Roger Mace to Serve his
said master the full term afd during which term the said Roger Mace his said Master
well and faithfully shall serve his Secretts Keep his Commandments lawfully and honestly
every where willingly shall do and in all things as a good and faithfull Servant shall
demean himselfe towards his said master and all his during the term afd &a

       In Consideration thereof the said Benjamin Lebruse present herein Court in his proper
person Covenanteth with the Justices of the Same Court in Court Judicially Sitting in manner
and form following that is to say he the said Benjamin Lebruse during the term afd will
learn his said apprentice to read write and Cypher as far as the rule of three (and if his
wife lives will Learn his said apprentice the trade of a weaver) and at the Expiration of
his servitude give him a new suit of Cloaths over and above his Common wearing Cloaths and
Likewise provide for his said apprentice sufficient meat drink washing Lodging and
                                                                                                                   Cloathing


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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1733-1735
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