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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1733-1735
Volume 846, Page 191b   View pdf image
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August Court                1734                 191

    Barrett be taken to Satisfie his said Lordship of the fine afd &a the Sher of Somerset County to witt Joseph
MccClester by John Stewart his deputy present took Charge of the said Henry Barrett accordingly  Likewise the said
Henry Barrett Is ordered by the Court to give Security for fees &a   thereupon John Dennis Jun.r present herein Court
undertook of the said Henry Barrett in five pounds Sterling for to be LEvied &a   In Case he doth not pay for the afd
Henry Barrett his Severall Officers Fees due by means of the premisses afd &a


Thomas Hopcraft
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Arthur Warwick
           To the Worshipfull Justices of Somerset County now sitting   the petition of Thomas
Hopcraft most humbly sheweth that your petitioner was brough^t^
into this County a Servant and sold to M.r Heber Whittingham for
five years to Commence from the time of the ships Anchoradge in ye
Capes which was on the fourth day of August 1729 but your petitioner was forced by the
said Heber Whittingham to sign a new Indenture by which new Indenture the said Heber
Whittingham hath sold your petitioner to Arthur Warwick who now detaines your petitioner
as a Servant by Virtue of the said new Indenture signed by your petitioner in his
Servitude your petitioner being Apprehensive he has been free since the 5.th day of this
Month Humbly prays your Worships will be pleased to sett your petitioner at Liberty
and he as in duty bound will pray &a

Thereupon Command was given to the Sherriff of Somerset County that he should Immediately
Summons the af.d Arthur Warwick that he be and appear before ye Justices of his
Lordships County Court of Somrset now held at Dividing Creek to answer the petition of the af.d
Thomas Hopcraft &a  Afterwards to wit the twentieth day of August Ann 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 afd Cameth the said Sher to witt Joseph Macclester
Gent and made return that he had sumoned the af.d Joshua Warwick as af.d he was Comand
thereupon came here into Court as well the af.d petitioner as the af.d Arthur Warwick in the
their proper persons and the petition afd being read and heard and the severall allegations
as well on the part of the petitioner af.d as on the part of the af.d Arthur Warwick ^heard^ and mature
deliberation thereupon had and what severall Evidences delivered upon Oath   It appears to the
Justices here that the said Thos Hopcraft was detained by his said Master some small time longer than he was
to Serve by his first Indenture &a    Therefore it is Considered by the Justices here that the afd Thomas
Hopcraft goe Free from his said Master Arthur Warwick and that he Serve noe Longer by Vertue of
the Same Indenture and Likewise it is Considered that the Same Thos Hopcraft Recover against the
283   said Arthur Warwick                                                                              pounds of tobacco by
the Court here unto him adjudged for his Costs and Charges by him in his part Expended &a

          Whereupon the said Arthur Warwick prays that the Said Thomas Hopcraft may be adjudged to
Serve him for Eight days runaway time and Likewise for Twenty shillings and twenty pounds of tobo
                                                                                                                                       paid


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