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10 Somerset County ss Att a Court of the right honourable Charles absolute Lord and proprietary of the provinces of Maryland and avalon Lord Baron of Baltemore &a held at dividing Creek in the Same County the third tuesday of June to witt the Seventeenth day of the same month and in the twenty first Year of his said Lordships dominion &.a anno Dom One thousand Seven hundred and thirty five by his said Lordships Justices the peace in the Same County to keep assigned of whom were present
Proclamation being made in Usuall Form and the sheriff of Somerset County to witt Joseph MaClester Gent being ^Called^ makes return of the pannell of the Orphan Jury as followeth vizt Joshua Caldwell Christopher Piper John Larrimore Joshua Sturges Wm Adams Edward Beachamp Cornelius Dickerson William Gray Manocan John Kellum John Aydelott John Collins Thomas Larrimore John Bevins Richard Nicholson Hutton Hill James Houston & Underwood Rencher the Jurors afd being Severally Called Over did appear and were Sworn and Charged and sent out to Consider &a soon after the Orphan Jury afd being Impannelled & Sworn and Charged as afd returned here into Court and being Severally Called Over did appear and being asked if they had agreed or any presentments answered no thereupon they were discharged &a
severall miles nearer for people to pass up and down the County as your petitioners Shall ever pray Nehemiah Holland John Purnall, Fisher Walton, William Aydelott Bowden Robins & Johnson Hill which being read and heard and the premisses Considered It is thereupon Ordered by the Court here that Mess.rs William Lane and John Purnall mete at a Certain time and place by them to be appointed so soon as possible and Lay out a road and Cause the Same to be Cleared from the Line that parts Vergenia from Somerset County near the plantation of Silas Chapman to girdle tree hill and that the said Road be Laid out and Cleared the Nearest & Best way and of the last of prejudice to any person or persons & that Philip be Overseer of the Same Road &a |
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