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November Court
1736
267 Tillman during the term afd shall and will give his said apprentice app Six month Schoolling and knitt sew and Spin and alter houswifery and Likewise provide for his said apprentice meat Drink washing Lodging and Cloathing sufficient for her to have and wear during the term afd thereupon the said Aaron Tillman is ordered to give Recognizance for to Comply the Covenants afd Whereupon the said Aaron Tillman present herein Court in his proper person acknowledged himselfe Indebted unto the said Rebecca Tillman in the Sum of Ten pounds Sterling good and Lawfull money of England of his goods and Chattells Lands and Tenements to the Use of the said Rebecca Tillman her heirs and assignes to be made and Levied If it happen that the said Aaron Tillman do not during the term afd give the said Rebecca Six months schooling and knitt sew and Spin and other houswifery and Likewise provide for his said apprentice meat drink washing Lodging and Cloathing sufficient for her to have and wear during the term afd &a
hundred thirty and five at the Parish afd in the County afd within the Jurisdiction of this Court did Committ fornication with a Certain Person to the Jurors afd unknown and did permitt the Same unknown person then and there to have Carnall knowledge of her body and to begett then and there a bastard Child on the body of her the Same Sarah to the high displeasure of almighty God to the Evill Example of all others 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 and provided &a Test Samuel Jones On the backside of the foregoing bill of Indictm.t it was thus Endorsed viz.t Billa Vera Edmond Hough foreman Thereupon Command was given to the Sheriff of Somerset County that he Should take the said Sarah Staples if &a to answer &a and afterwards to witt the sixteenth day of Novem Anno Dom One thousand Seven hundred and thirty Six before the Justices of his Lordships County Court of Somerset now here held at dividing Creek in and for the same County Came ye said Sarah Staples in her proper person according to a Certain Recognizance by her and security before acknowledged and had a hearing of the Indictment afd who thereupon says that she is not Guilty thereof and of this she putts herselfe upon the Country and Wm Goldsborough |
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