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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1735-1737
Volume 851, Page 141b   View pdf image
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       March Court                    1735                     141

in such 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 made & provided &a
Test Mitchell Dashiell                     On the backside of the foregoing bill of Indictment it was thus Endorsed vizt Billa
vera Edmond Hough Foreman

                                  Thereupon Command was given to the sheriff of Somerset County that he Should take the said
Margarett Causey 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 Margaret Causey in her proper person according to a Certain Recognizance
by her and her Security before acknowledged and had a hearing of the Indictment afd who
thereupon Says that of the premisses afd in the Indictment afd mentioned above upon her Imposed she
Indicted for but hath not wherewithall to pay her fine for the fact afd &a

       Wherefore it is Considered by the Court here that the said Margarett Causey be whipt at the publick whiping
post with twenty Lashes on the Bare back well Laid on untill the blood appear and that she be taken &a and
thereupon as to the Corporall punishment afd as by the Judgmt afd Rendered Command is Given to the sher
of Somerset County that he do thereof Immediate Execution by whiping of the afd Marg.tt Causey at the
publick whiping post with twenty Stripes on the bear back well Laid on untill the blood appear
and afterwards in the Same Court Came the Said sheriff and made return that he had done the Execution
of the Judgment aforesaid as to the Corporall punishment afd he was Commanded &a

       Whereupon it is Considered and ordered by the Court here that the said Margaret Causey give
security for the payment of the Severall Officers their Fees due by means of the premises afd  thereupon
a Certain James Parrimore Late of Somerset County planter present here in Court in his proper person
Acknowledged himselfe Indebted unto his Lordship the Lord proprietary in the Sum of five pounds
sterling of his body goods and Chattells Lands and tenements to be made and Levied to the use of the sever.ll
Officers of Somerset County Court In Case the said Margarett Causey do not pay unto the severall Officers
their fees due upon the Indictment afd by occasion of the premisses afd &a


The Same
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Daniel Rhodes
 Somerset County ss.t  The Jurors for the Right honrble the Lord proprietary that now is
for the body of Somerset County af.d upon their Oaths do present
that daniel Rhodes ate of stepney parish in the County
af.d planter the twentieth day of February in the Year of our
Lord God Seventeen hundred thirty and five at the parish afd ^in the County afd^ within the
Jurisdiction of thir Court did commit Fornication with a Certain Margaret
Causey and of her body then and there had carnal knowledge and a bastard
Child on the body of her the same Margaret then and there did beget to the
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1735-1737
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