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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1733-1735
Volume 846, Page 251b   View pdf image
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           March Court              1734                    251

Case offending Contrary to the peace of the said Lord proprietary 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

Test:  Henry Jerman:      On the backside of the Foregoing Bill of Indictment it was thus Endorsed vizt True
Bill Thomas Humphrys Foreman

       Thereupon Command was given to the sheriff of Somerset County that he should take the afd Rebecca Collins
if &.a to answer &.a and afterwards to witt the Eighteenth day of March 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 the same County Came the afd Rebecca Collins in her proper person and had a hearing of the Indictment
aforesaid and being Instantly demanded how she would acquitt herselfe of the premisses afd above by the
Indictment afd upon her Imposed says that of the premisses afd above upon her Imposed she is
Guilty thereof and is willing to pay her fine for the fact afd &a

             Whereupon all and Singular the premisses the premisses by the Court here being seen heard and
fully understood
                                  It is thereupon Considered by the Court here that the afd Rebecca Collins pay unto
his Lordship the Lord proprietary for her fine by the Court hereupon her Imposed for and by occasion
of the premisses afd whereof in form afd she is Convict thirty shillings Currant money for the use of the
County afd and that the afd Rebecca Collins be taken to satisfie his said Lordship of the fine afd &a

          Whereupon the said Rebecca Collins is ordered to give Security for the payment of the several officers
fees due upon the Indictment aforesaid   Thereupon a Certain John Williams of the seaside in somerset County
planter present here in Court in his proper person acknowledged Himselves Indebted unto his Lordship
the Lord proprietary in five pounds sterling good and Lawfull money of his body goods or Chattells
Lands or tenements to the use of the Officers of Somerset County Court that hath right to any fees upon the
Indictment afd to be made and Levied  If it happen that he doth not pay unto the said severall officers
all their fees due by Occasion of the premisses afd on the Indictment aforesaid &a


His Lordship
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Frances Williams
 Somerset County ss
                                   The Jurors for the Right Honrble the Lord proprietary that
now is for the body of Somerset County afd upon their Oath do present that Frances
Williams late of allhollows parish in the County afd spinster the fourth day of november
in the Year of Our Lord God seventeen hundred and thirty four at the parish afd in the County afd within the
Jurisdiction of this Court did Committ fornication with a Certain Geo: Bowen and did permitt the same Geo: Bowen
then and there to have Carnall knowledge of her body and to begett then & there a bastard Child on the body of
her the same Francis Williams to the high displeasure of almighty God to the Evill Example of all others
in such Case Offending Contrary to the peace of the said Lord proprietary that now is his good rule & Governm.t
and against the form of the act of assembly in such Case made and provided &a

       Edward Rownds      On the backside of the foregoing bill of Indictment it was Endorsed   Thomas
Humphrys Foreman
                                  Thereupon Command was given to the sheriff of Somerset County that he
should take the said Francis Williams if &a to answer &a and afterwards to witt the Eighteenth day of
                                                                                                                                              March


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