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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1735-1737
Volume 851, Page 262   View pdf image
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    November Court                    1736             262

Wherefore your Petitioner prayes he may have the liberty of altering the said road and
clearing the same on the other side of the said ridge which will make the said road shorter
and no way worse and will not be detrimentall to any person whatsoever and a great benefitt
to your Petitioner your worships granting your petitioners request will as in
duty bound ever pray

          the petition afd being read and heard and fully understood and mature deliberation
thereupon had  Wherefore it is Considered that the afd Lewis Jones have Liberty of
turning of the Said road as by the petition afd is praid he first making the New road
as good and passable as the old and noe ways prejudicially to any person or persons
whatsoever &a


Elgate Hitch
     petn
 To the Worshipfull the Justices of Somerset County the humble petition
of Elgate Hitch Humbly sheweth that your petitioner having now in
his possession a negro woman named Hannah which lately belonged to
Mr Ebenezer Handy deceased which negro woman being so disabled in her limbs and
age together that she can scarcely walk and no way capable of doing your petitioner
any service in workin in the Ground and but verry little within doors and your
petitioner thinks it a Great piece of hardship on him to pay her leavy yearly
your petitioner therefore most humbly prays that your worships would be pleased
to take it into your wise and serious consideration and that seing the said negro woman
is so disabled that your worships will order the said negro woman to be sett leavy free
and your petitioner as in duty bound will ever pray

          The petition aforesaid being read and heard and mature deliberation thereupon
had  wherefore it is Considered by the Justices here that the afd Elgate Hitch be discharged
for the future from paying Levys for the afd Negro woman Hannah as by the
petition afd is praid &a


Thomas Williams
           petn
      To the Worshipfull Court now setting the petition of Thomas
Williams humbly sheweth whereas your petitioner hath Clered
a road from the head of the Creek where he now liveth out of the main
road and meeteing in again a littell above my sons house and well ditched the same
desiers that it may stand as the main road and Continue the road from pocomoke on the
north side of the head of the said Creek and your petitioner as in duty bound doth pray
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1735-1737
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