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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1733-1735
Volume 846, Page 216   View pdf image
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November Court    1734                   216

Tom a negro boy of Christopher Dowdle is adjudged by the Court of to be of the age of Eleven Years &a

William Fasit of Somerset County Gent Surveyor or Riding officer of the Sea side district present here
in Court produced a Commission for that purpose took the Severall Oaths to the Government and Subscribed
the Oath of Abjuration and Test &a

          Pompey a negro Boy of Thomas Haywards is adjudged by the Court to be of the age of tenn
Years &a         this term
                                           Pollipus a negro boy of Thomas Hayward is adjudged by the Court to be of
the age of Nine Years &a         this term

Abraham a negro Boy of Thomas Lambden is adjudged by the Court to be of the age of Six Years
this term &a

John Woollford appointed pressmaster for the bayside for the Ensuing Year &a

William Fasitt Jun.r appointed pressmaster for the seaside for the Ensuing Year &a


His Lordship
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Sarah Rue
 Somerset County ss
                                   The Jurors for the Right honourable the Lord
proprietary that now is for the body of Somerset County af.d upon
their Oath do present that Sarah Rice late of Coventry parrish in
                   the County af.d Spinster the tenth day of November in the year of our
Lord God Seventeen hundred thirty and two at the parrish af.d in the County af.d within the
Jurisdiction of this Court did commit fornication with a Certain person to the Jurors af.d
unknown and did permit the Same unknown person then and there to have Carnal knowledge
of her body and to beget then and there a bastard child on the body of her the
Same Sarah to the high displeasure of almighty God to the evil Example of all others in
such Case offending contrary to the peace of the said Lord prop.ry that now is his good rule
and Government and against the form of the act of assembly in Such Case lately made and
provided &.a                     Testes Sampson Wheatly

On the back side of the foregoing bill of Indictment it was thus Endorsed viz.t Billa vera Sam.ll
Wilson foreman
                                     Thereupon Command was given to the sherriff of somerset County that he should
take the said Sarah Rice if &c to answer &c and afterwards to witt the Ninteenth day of November
One thousand seven hundred and thirty four before the Justices of his Lordships County Court of Somerset
now here held at dividing Creek In the County afd Came the afd Sarah Rice in her proper person
and had a hearing of the Indictment afd and being Instantly demanded how she would acquitt
herselfe of the Indictment afd says that of the premisses Contained in the Indictment afd she is
Gilty thereof and makes oath that a Certain John Taylor is the father of the Child she stands Indicted
for but hath not wherewithall to pay her fine for the fact afd &a   Wherefore it is Considered by
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1733-1735
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