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June Court
1735
19 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 Ephraim Waggaman & Benjamin Holland On the Backside of the foregoing Bill of Indictment it was thus Endorsed vizt Billa Vera Robert Jones Foreman Thereupon Command was given to the sheriff of Somerset County that he should take the aforesaid Hannah Blak if &a to answer &a and afterwards to witt the Seventeenth day of June anno Dom One thousand seven hundred and thirty five before the Justices of his Lordships County Court of Somerset now held at dividing Creek in the Same County Came the afd Hannah Blake in her proper person and had a hearing of the Indictment afd and being Instantly demanded how she would acquitt herselfe of the premisses aforesaid by the Indictment above upon her Imposed says that she is Guilty thereof &a Whereupon all and Singular the premisses by the Court here seen heard & fully understood it seems to the Court here that the afd Hannah Black is a black woman and does not Come within the act of assembly to be punished for adultery or fornication &a It is thereupon Considered by the Justices here that the afd Hannah Black be quiet & goe thereof without day &a also it is Considered that the said Hannah Blacke give Security for the payment of the Severall Officers Fees due by Occasion of the premisses afd thereupon a Certain Edmond Hough of Somerset County Gent present herein Court undertakes for to pay the Severall Officers Fees due as afd &a
the Year of our Lord God Seventeen hundred thirty and five at the Parish afd in the County afd within ye Jurisdiction of this Court did commit Fornication with a Certain person to the Jurors afd unknown and did permit the Same unknown person then and there to have carnal knowledge of her Body and to b^e^gett then and there a Basterd Child on the body of her the same Winifred to the high Displeasure of almighty God to the Evil Example of all others in such Cases |
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