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August Court
1737
100 planters all present here in Court acknowledged themselves Indebted unto His Lordship the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary in Forty pounds sterling each of their bodys goods or Chattles Lands or tennements severally to be made and levied to the use of the Justices of the County af.d and there Successors If it happen that the said Margaret Peal her heirs Executors or administrators or any of them do and shall not from time to time and at all times hereafter acquit and save harmless as well the Justices of the County af.d and their successors for the time being also the Inhabitans of the said County of and from all Costs Charges troubles and Incumbrances whatsoever for or by Reason of the birth maintainance nourishing and bringing up of the said Child and of and from all others suites Charges troubles and demands whatsoever touching or Concerning of the same &.c Likewise the said Margaret Peal is ordered to give security for the payment of the Severall Officers their Fees due by means of the premisses afd &c Whereupon the said John Webb and Marg.t Peal both present here in Court acknowledged themselves Indebted unto his Lordship the Lord propry in One thousand pounds of tobacco to be Levied of their bodys goods or Chattells Lands or tenements to the Use of the Severall Officers that hath a right to any fee or fees due on the Indictment afd If it happen that the said Margaret Peal do not pay unto the Severall Officers their Just Fees on the Indictment afd And further the Said Margaret Peal acknowledged herselfe Indebted unto his Lordship the Lord proprietary in five pounds Sterling to be Levied of her goods and Chattells Lands and tenements to the Use of his Said Lordship his heirs and Successors If it happen that she do not make her personall appearance before the Justices of his Lordships County Court of Somerset to be held at dividing Creek in the Same County the third Tuesday of November then next following and do not then and there give Such Evidence as she shall serve against John Woolford in relation to the ^begetting of the^ Child afd & do depart the Same Court without Leave &c
Anno Dom one thousand seven hundred and thirty seven before Robert King Gent and others his associates Justices of his the said Lord proprietary the peace in the same County |
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