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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1735-1737
Volume 851, Page 139b   View pdf image
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       March Court                      1735        139

Jeremiah Lilley Command is given to the Sher of Somerset County that he doe the Same Immediately &a


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                                  The Jurors for the Right Honourable the Lord proprietary that now is for
the body of Somerset County aforesaid do present that Jeremiah Lilley Late of Coventry
Parish in the County aforesaid Cordwainer the first day of January 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 Stockins of the Value of thirty pounds of tobacco of the goods and Chattells of McKenny
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 & Government and against the form of the act of assembly in such Case
made and provided &a
                                     Test   Joseph McClester Fran Porter Joshua Merrill and McKemmy Porter

       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 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 said Jeremiah Lilley in his proper person under
Custody of the Sheriff of Somerset County and being by the said Sheriff Led to the barr had a hearing of
the Indictment afd and being Instantly demanded how he would acquitt himselfe of the felony afd as by
the Indictment aforesaid above against him Supposed says that of the felony afd above against him Supposed
he is guilty thereof and Every thing in the Indictment afd Expressly Confesseth &a

       Whereupon all and Singular the premisses by the Court here Seen heard and fully understood thereupon
the Court here according to act of assembly in Such Case made and provided ^valued^ the pair of Stockins in
the Indictment afd Stolen to thirty pounds of tobacco

          Wherefore it is Considered by the Justices here that the afd Jeremiah Lilley pay unto McKemmey
Porter the party deprived four fold of the Value of the Stockins afd Stolen amounting in the whole to one
hundred and Twenty pounds of tobacco and that the said Jeremiah Lilley be whipt at the publick whiping
post with fifteen Stripes on the Bare back well Laid on untill the blood appear and that he stand
Immediately 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 Rendered by whiping of the afd Jeremiah Lilley at the publick whiping post
with fifteen Stripes on the bare back well Laid on untill the blood appear and by Sitting him in the pillowry
Immediately 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 Judgment afd as to the Corporall punishment afd he was
Commanded &a  whereupon it is Considered and ordered by the Court here that the afd Jeremiah Lilley be sold
for any time not Exceeding Seven Years to the biggest bidder towards Satisfying of the four fold afd and the
Severall officers their fees due by occasion of the premisses aforesaid and as to the Sale of the Said Jeremiah Lilley
Command is Given to the Sheriff of Somerset County that he do thereof the Same Immediately &a


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