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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1735-1737
Volume 851, Page 17b   View pdf image
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June Court               1735                    17

petition as aforesaid and your petitioner as in duty bound shall ever pray   Joseph Jones

          The petition aforesaid being read and heard and fully understood and Mature deliberation thereupon
had  wherefore it is Considered that the aforesaid Andrew Smith be Overseer and Clear a road from Madm
Hamptons plantation to George Trewitts ditch as by the petition aforesaid is praid &a


Mary Tanner
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Francis Harper
     To the worshipfull Justices of Somerset County now Sitting the humble petition
of Mary Turner sheweth that your petitioner being sold according to the Custom
of the Country to Robert Carter and Serving him eight months after which time was
brought into this County and sold to William Eskridge with whom I served two years and Seven months
after which time he sold me to Francis Harper for three Years and nine months which time being two
Years more than I should serve according to the Custom of the Country and having Served five Years I
hope your worships will take it into Consideration (being held by Francis Harper) to discharge your
petitioner having noe Indenture against me and your petitioner will be in duty bound to pray
                                                                                                                         Mary Tanner
          Thereupon Command was given to the sheriff of Somerset County County that he should Somons the afd
Francis Harper and William Eskridge if they should be found in his baily wick that all Excuses sett apart
they be and appear before the Justices of his Lordships County Court of Somerset now here held at dividing
Creek this eighteenth day of march anno Dom One thousand seven hundred and thirty four to answer the petition
afd of the afd Mary Tanner &a after wards to witt the Same day and Year afd in the Same Court Came
the said Sheriff to witt Joseph McClester Gent and made return that he had sumoned the said Francis
Harper and W.m Eskridge as by the preceipt afd he was Commanded &a

       Whereupon Came hereinto Court ^as well^ the afd Francis Harper and William Eskridge in their proper
person as the afd petitioner and whereupon the said William Eskridge prays that the said Mary Tanner
may be remanded back into the service of her master Francis Harper and he would make it appear at ^June^
Court next by what power or authority the said Mary Tanner was detained as a Servant thereupon the
said Mary Tanner is ordered by the Court to return to her said Masters Service untill next ^June^ Court and the
same day is given to the aforesaid Francis and William here also &a

          Att which said next Court to witt the Seventeenth day of June anno Dom One thousand seven hundred
and thirty five Came againe as well the afd Francis Harper and William Eskridge as the afd petitioner
all in their proper persons and the petition aforesaid being Read and heard and fully understood as well
on the part of the aforesaid Francis Harper and William Eskridge as on the part of the afd Petitioner
and the Severall allegations on all sides being maturally deliberated and for as much as the said Will.m
                                                                                                                                     Eskridge


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