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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1737-1738
Volume 859, Page 138   View pdf image
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    November Court            1737                138

James Kane be taken to Satisfie his Lordship of the fine afd &a   Whereupon the said James
Kane is Ordered by the Court here to give Security for the payment of the Severall Officers fees
due by means of the premisses on the Indictment afd   Thereupon Joseph Tillman of Somerset
County planter his security present herein Court acknowledged himselfe Indebted unto the Severall
Officers of Somerset County Court that hath a right to any fee or fees on the Indictment afd in one
thousand pounds of tobacco of his body goods or Chattells Lands or tenements to the use of the
Severall Officer or officers their heirs or assignes to be made and Levied   In Case the said James
Kane his heirs Executors or administrators doe not pay and satisfie unto the Severall Officers
in the County afd their Just and right full fee or fees on the Indictment afd &a


The Same
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Catherine Harrison
 Somerset ss.t  Memorandum at a Session of the peace of his Lordship
the Right Honrble the Lord Proprietary of the province of
Maryland held at dividing Creek in Somerset County on the third
Tuesday of June to witt the Twenty first day of the same month 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 County afd to Conserve and also divers
felonys trespasses and Other Malefeasances in the Same County Committed to hear and
determine assigned by the Oath of William Holland and twelve others being presented
that Catherine Harrison late of all hollows parish in the County af Spinster the tenth
day of January Anno Dom seventeen hundred thirty and six at the parish af.d
in the County af.d and within the Jurisdiction of this Court did committ fornication
with a certain person to the Jurors af.d unknown and did permit the same unknown
person then and there to have Carnal knowledge of her body and to beget then
and there a basterd Child on the body of her the same Catherine to the high despleasure
of almighty God to the evil 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

       Thereupon it is Commanded the then sherriffe of Somerset County that he should take
the said Catherine Harrison late of Somerset County Spinster if she should be found in his
bailywick and her should safe keep so that he ^might^ have her body ^before^ the Justices of his Lordships
County Court of Somerset to be held at dividing Creek in the same County the third tuesday
of August Anno Dom one thousand seven hundred and thirty seven to answer his
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1737-1738
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