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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1735-1737
Volume 851, Page 140   View pdf image
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    March Court                    1735                140

The Same
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The Same
 Somerset County ss     The Jurors for the Right honourable the Lord proprietary that
now is for the body of Somerset County aforesaid upon their Oath do present that
Jeremiah Lilley late of Coventry parish in the County afd Cordwainer the tenth 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 aforesaid within the Jurisdiction of this Court One pair of Boots of the Value of
One hundred pounds of tobacco of the goods and Chattells of John Reed Jun.r then and there being
found then and there feloniously did Steale 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   Mitchell Dashiell, John Reed Jun.r Obadiah Reed  Samuel Fluellin

    On the backside of the foregoing bill of Indictment it was thus Endorsed 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 Said Jeremiah Lilley in his proper person under Custody of
the Sheriff of Somerset and being by the Same 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 afd above upon 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 &
fully understood thereupon the Court here according to act of assembly in Such Case made and
provided valued the boots afd mentioned to Sixty pounds of tobacco

       Wherefore it is Considered by the Justices here that the afd Jeremiah Lilley pay unto the
afd John Read Jun.r the party deprived four fold of the value of the boots afd Stolen which
amounts in the whole to two hundred and forty pounds of tobacco and that the said Jeremiah
Lilley be whipt with tenn Stripes at the publick whiping post 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 doe thereof Immediate Execution by
whiping of the said Jeremiah Lilley at the publick whiping post with tenn Stripes ^on the bare Back^ well
Laid on untill the blood appear and by Setting him in the pillowry Immediately one quarter of
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