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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1735-1737
Volume 851, Page 317   View pdf image
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    March Court                1736                 317

of the Court &.c  whereupon all and Singular the premisses by the Court here seen heard and fully understood
&c   It is Considered that the afd William Conner pay unto his Lordship the right honrble
the Lord proprietary for his fine by the Court here upon him Imposed for and by Occasion of
the trespass and assault ^afd^ whereof in form afd he is Convict six pence Curr.t money of Maryland
and that the said William Conner be taken to Satisfie his said Lordship of the fine afd &c


The Same
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The Same
 Somerset County ss.t    The Jurors for the Right Honourable the Lord proprietary
that now is for the body of Somerset County af.d upon their oath do present that William
Conner late of Coventry parish in the County af.d planter the seventeenth day of
October Anno Dom seventeen hundred thirty and six at the parish af.d in the County af.d within
the Jurisdiction of this Court in and upon a Certain Eliz.a Marchant wife of Benj.a Marchant
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 the same Eliz.a then and there did beat wound and
evilly treat so that of her life it was much despaired and other harms to her then and there did to the
great damage of the same Eliz.a and against the peace of the said Lord proprietary that now is his
good Rule and Government &c
                                                             Test    Elizabeth Merchant
On the foregoing bill of Indictment it was Endorsed vizt True Bill p Wm Jones foreman

Thereupon Command was given to the sheriff of Somerset County that he sho^u^ld taken
the said William Conner if he should be found in his bailywick and him should safe keep
so that he might have his body before the Justices of his Lordships County Court of Somerset
to be held in the Court House at dividing Creek in the same County the third Tuesday of
March then Next to answer unto his said Lordship of and Concerning the Indictment af.d
for trespass and assault &c and that thereof he Should not fail &c

    Att which said Third tuesday of march to witt the fifteenth day of the Same month ann
Dom One thousand Seven hundred and thirty Six before the Justices of his Lordships
County Court of Somerset now here held in the Court house at dividing Creek in & for the same
County Came the said William Conner in his proper person and had a hearing of the Indictm.t
afd and being Instantly demanded how he would acquitt himselfe of the premisses afd
as by the Indictment afd above upon him Imposed saith that he will not Contend with his said
Lordship the Lord Proprietary but Submits with a protestation of his Innocency and puts
himselfe upon the favour of the Court &c   whereupon all and singular the premisses by the
Court here seen heard and fully understood      It is Considered that the afd William Conner
pay unto his Lordship the Lord propry for his fine by the Court here upon him
                                                                                                          Imposed


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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1735-1737
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