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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1735-1737
Volume 851, Page 138b   View pdf image
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              March Court                       1735            138

His Lordship
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The Same
 Somerset County ss.t     The Jurors for the Right honourable the Lord proprietary
that now is for the body of Somerset County afd upon their Oath do present that Jeremiah
Lilley late of Coventry parish in the County aforesaid Cordwainer the first day of Janry
in the Year of Our Lord God Seventeen hundred and thirty five with force and arms at the parish afd in the
County afd within the Jurisdiction of this Court One pair of Shoes of the Value of thirty pounds of tobacco one
white Linnen Shirt of the Value of Sixty pounds of tobacco and one perriwigg of the Value of two hundred
pounds of tobacco of the goods and Chattells of Francis Porter then and there being found then and there feloniously
did steal take and bear away 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 Joseph MccClester Francis Porter Joshua Merrill

             On the backside of the foregoing Bill of Indictment it was thus Endorsed vizt Billa vera Edm Hough
Foreman
                                  Thereupon Command was Given to the Sheriff of Somerset County that he
should take the said Jeremiah Lilley if &a to answer &a and afterwards to witt the Sixteenth day of March
Anno Dom One thousand Seven hundred and thirty five before the Justices of his Lordships County Court
of Somerset now here held at dividing Creek in and for the same County Came the same Jeremiah Lilley
in his proper person under Custody of the Sheriff of Somerset County and being by the said Sheriff
ledd to the Barr and had a hearing of the Indictment aforesaid above against him Supposed
prays that of the felony afd above against him supposed he is guilty thereof and every thing in
the Indictment aforesaid expressly Confesseth &a

          Whereupon all and Singular the premisses by the Court here seen heard and fully understood
Valued the Shoes white Linnen Shirt and Perriwigg afd Stolen according to act of assembly in Such Case made
and provided to two hundred and ninty pounds of tobacco                  Thereupon it is Considered by the
Court here that the afd Jeremiah Lilley pay unto the afd Francis Porter the party deprived four fold of
the value of the goods aforesaid stolen amounting in the whole to One thousand One hundred and Sixty pds
of tobacco and that the said Jeremiah Lilley be whipt at the publick whiping post with twenty Stripes on
the bare Back well Laid on untill the blood appear and that he stand in the pillowry One quarter of an
hour and that he be taken &a  and thereupon as to the Corporall punishment afd Command is given to
the Sheriff of Somerset County that he do thereof Immediate Execution according to the Judgment afd Rendred
by whiping of the afd Jeremiah Lilley at the publick whiping post with twenty Stripes on the bare back
well Laid on untill the blood appear and by Sitting him in the Pillowry One quarter of an hour and afterwards
in the Same Court Came the Said Sheriff and made return that he had done the Execution of the Judgmt
afd as to the Corporall punishment afd he was Commanded &a  Wherefore it is Considered & ordered by the Court
here that ye said Jeremiah Lilley be sold for any time not Exceeding Seven Years to the biggest bidder towards
Satisfaction of the four fold afd & the Severall officers Fees due by occasion of the premisses afd and as to the sale of the said Jeremiah
                                                                                                                                                                                                 Lilley


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