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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1737-1738
Volume 859, Page 201b   View pdf image
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       March Court                    1737                 201

His Lordship
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Humphry Chapman
 Somerset County ss  Be it remembred that William Goldsborough Gent attorney

of the Right honourable the Lord Proprietary that now is who for the Same Lord
Lord Proprietary in this part prosecuteth doth Come hereinto the County Court of
the same Lord Proprietary held for Somerset County afd to witt at dividing Creek in the Same County
the twenty first day of March Anno Dom Seventeen hundred thirty and Seven before Robert
King Esq.r and his associates the said Lord Proprietary his Justices of the Same County Court and for
the Same Lord Proprietary doth give the Same Justices here to understand and be informed that
the Minister Vestry Men and Church Wardens of all hollows parish in the County aforesaid the
tenth day of June Ann Dom Seventeen hundred thirty and Seven at the parish afd in the County afd
within the Jurisdiction of this Court suspecting then and thereof Lewdness and Incontinency Humphry
Chapman of the same parish and County planter and Martha Handlin of the same parish
and County being then and yet at the place af.d the wife of Patrick Handlin (the said Humphry and
Martha then and still residing and living within the said parish County and Jurisdiction) did cause
notice to be given unto the af.d Humphry and Martha to appear before them the said Minister Vestry
and Church Wardens on the tenth Day of July in the said year last mentioned at a vestry then held
by them in the parish Church of the said parish in the parish and County af.d  And that the said
Humphry and Martha then and there appeared before the said Minister Vestry and Church Wardens
(the same Humphry and Martha having on the said tenth day of July in the said Year
last mentioned Notice given them so to do) and the same Humphry and Martha were acquainted
then and there by the said Minister Vestry and Church Wardens of the suspicion that
was had of Incontinency of them the said Humphry and Martha and were admonished then
and there by the same Minister Vestry and Church Wardens from accompanying together
and frequenting the Company of each other the said Humphry and Martha having not excused
or acquitted themselves of the grounds of the said suspicion in such Manner as the said Minister
Vestry and Church Wardens did approve and the af.d attorney doth give the Justices here further
to understand and be informed that the af.d Humphry Chapman of the said parish and County
planter did afterwards to wit the first Day of august Ann Dom seventeen hundred thirty and seven af.d
and divers other times as well before as since at the parish af.d in the County af.d and within the Jurisdiction
of this Court contrary to and after the Admonition af.d cohabit with and frequent the Company of
the said Martha contrary to the form of the Act of Assembly in such Case lately made and provided and
against the peace of the said Lord proprietary that now is his good Rule and Government and
wherefore the same Attorney of the said Lord proprietary for the said Lord proprietary
                                                                                                                               prayeth



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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1737-1738
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