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August Court
1736
231 humbly sheweth that whereas there is a great many people that Liveth in Copomco and have no road into the County road but what is so often Turned that we Cannot pass with our Carts we humbly pray that we may have an order for a road from Joseph Jones into the County Road by Mr Hugh Stephensons and in duty bound shall ever pray Isaac Marshall & the rest &a The petition afd being read and heard and fully understood wherefore it is Considered by the Justices here that the petition afd be granted as praid and that a road be Cleared and Laid out from Joseph Jones into the main Road by Mr Hugh Stephensons according to the directions of Edward Round John Purnall and Isaac Marshall and that the Same new road be under the Care of John Hammon overseer &a Solomon Tomlinson negro Girle Called anney is by the Court here adjudged by the Court here Tenn Years &a
appoint Commissioners to Examine Evidences in Relation to the perpetuating the same and as in his duty bound shall ever pray The Petition afd being read and heard and fully understood and mature deliberation thereupon had wherefore it is Considered by the Justices here that a Commission Issue to the afd John Richardson as by the petition afd is praid and that Edward Round Adam Spence Adam Bell and Hutton Hill of Somerset County Gent be Commissioners and Execute the same Commission According to Act of Assembly in such case made and provided &c
day of feburary in the year of our Lord God seventeen hundred thirty and four at the parish afd in the County af.d within the Jur of this Court commit Adultery with a certian Joyce Collins and of her body then and there had carnal knowledge and a bastard Child on the body of her the same Joyce then and there did beget to the high displeasure of Almighty God to the evil example of all others in such case offending contrary to the peace of the said Lord proprietary that now is his good rule and goverment and against the form of the Act of Assembly in such case lately made and provided &c Test Joyce Collins On the backside of the foregoing Bill of Indictment it was thus Endorsed vizt Billa Vera Samuel Wilson Foreman Thereupon Command was Given to the Sheriffe of Somerset County that he Should take the said Robert |
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