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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1737-1738
Volume 859, Page 139   View pdf image
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November Court            1737              139

Seen and fully understood   It is Considered by the Court here that the aforesaid Catherine Harrison
of the premisses aforesaid be quiet and goe thereof without day &.a  Whereupon the said Catherine
Harrison is ordered by the Court here to give Security for the payment of the Severall officers
their fees ^due^ by means of the premisses afd and for default thereof the Same Catherine Harrison
present herein Court is Committed into the Custody of the Sheriffe of the County afd thereto
remaine untill the Severall Officers ^be satisfied for^ their Just and rightfull fee or fees in the premisses
afd the said Sher to witt John Henry Gent present herein Court took Charge of the said Catherine
accordingly &a


The Same
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Lydia Coefeild
 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 Lydia Coefeild late of Coventry parish in the County af.d
Spinster the tenth day of February in the year of our Lord God seventeen hundred thirty and three
at the parish af.d in the County af.d within the Jurisdiction of this Court did Commit fornication
with a Certain person to the Jurors af.d unknown and did permit the same unknown person then
and there to have Carnal knowledg of her Body and to beget then and there a bastard Child
on the body of her the same Lydia to the high Displeasure 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 gover^n^ment against the form of the Act of Assembly in such Case
lately made and provided &c
Test   Benjamin Holland         On the foregoing Bill of Indictment it was Endorsed vizt Billa Vera
Samuel Wilson foreman
                                                                   Thereupon Command was Given to the Sheriffe of
Somerset County that he Should take the said Lydia Coefeild Late of Coventry parish in Somerset
County Spinster if She should be found in his bailywick and her should safe keep so that he
might 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 June Anno Dom One thousand Seven
hundred and thirty Seven to answer unto his said Lordship of and Concerning the Indictment
afd &.a  and that thereof he Should not fail &a          And now to witt the third Tuesday of
June being the twenty first day of the Same month ann Dom One thousand Seven hundred
and thirty Seven that same term before his Lordships Justices at dividing Creek in the same County
                                                                                                                                     Came


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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1737-1738
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