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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1735-1737
Volume 851, Page 268b   View pdf image
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          November Court                1736                 268

Testes   Thomas Hargis Mathew Selby & Daniel Surges   `      On the foregoing Bill it was Endorsed vizt A True
Bill William Jones Foreman
                                                          Thereupon Command was given to the Sheriff of Somerset County that he
should take the said Nehemiah Holland if &a to answer &a and afterwards to witt the sixteenth day of
November 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 the said Nehemiah Holland
in his proper person according to a Certain Recognizance by him and his security before acknowledged
and had a hearing of the Indictment afd who thereupon says that of the trespass and assault afd  As by
the Indictment above upon him Imposed he is Guilty thereof and is willing to pay his fine for the same

       Whereupon ^all & singular^ the premisses being seen and by the Court here fully understood

                         Therefore it is Considered that the afd Nehemiah Holland pay unto his Lordship the
Lord Proprietary for his fine by the Court hereupon him Imposed for and by Occasion of the trespass
and assault afd whereof in form afd he is Convict five shillings Curr.t money of Maryland and that
the said Nehemiah Holland be taken to Satisfie his said Lordship of the fine afd &a


Thomas Hargis appears according to his recognizance Entered into to give Evidence against Nehemiah
Holland and is discharged therefrom &a


His Lordship
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Saul Townsend
 Somerset County sst  The Jurors for the right honourable the Lord proprietary
that now is for the body of Somerset County afd upon their Oath do present that
Saul Townsend late of Coventry parish in the County afd planter the twentieth
day of August anno Dom seventeen hundred thirty and six at the parish afd in the County
afd within Jurisdiction of this Court in and upon a certain James Holston of the same
County planter in the peace of God and of the said Lord proprietary then and there being
with force and arms an assault did make and the same James then and there did beat wound
and evilly treat so that of his life it was much despaired and other harms to him then and there
did to the great damages of the same James and against the peace of the said Lord proprietary
that now is his good rule and Goverment &c
Test   James Houston John Brittingham and Dixon Quinton

       On the foregoing Bill of Indictment it was Endorsed vizt Ignoramus Willm Jones foreman
and afterwards to witt the Sixteenth day of Noveber 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 the said Saul Townsend in his proper person according to
a Certain Recognizance by him and his Securitys before acknowledged and prays that his appearance
may be recorded and he and his Securitys discharged from the same Recognizance &a

    Thereupon the same Saul Townsends appearance is recorded and he and hs Securitys
    accordingly discharged &a


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