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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1737-1738
Volume 859, Page 217b   View pdf image
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take a Gray Coloured Gelding being the proper goods and Chattles of the af.d Robert Collier and
the same Gelding Imprison and disfigure nor the hair from the tail of the said Gelding unlawfully
cutt  Nevertheless the af.d Robert knowing the premisses af.d to be true yet minding
and Maliciously Intending the same Peter in this part to vex and Injure and the good
name and Credit of the same Peter to destroy and also to cause the same Peter great
sums of money and tobacco to expend without any probable Just or reasonable Cause at
a Court of the right Honourable Charles absolute Lord and proprietary of the provinces of
maryland and avalon Lord Baron of Baltemore &.a held for Somerset County at deviding
Creek in the County af.d in the Court house the twenty first day of December ^Ann Dom^ seventeen
hundred thirty and six before the Honourable Levin Gale Esq.r Coll Robert King
M.r William Stoughton and Coll George Dashiell then the said Lord proprietarys his
Justices of the same Court assigned as well to hear and determine all felonys trespasses and
other malefeasances in the said County perpetrated as the Goal in the same County to
deliver a certain bill of Indictment against the af.d Peter falsy and Maliciously and
without any reasonable or probable Cause did cause & procure to be writ containing this
false matter following to witt that he the af.d Peter by the name of Peter Taylor late
of Somerset County Planter the twenty first day of december in the year of our Lord
God one thousand seven hundred thirty and six at the Court house at deviding Creek
in the County af.d one Grey Coloured Gelding being the proper goods and Chattles of
the said Robert Collier with force and arms unlawfully did take and Imprison and
the same Gelding so as af.d Imprisoned being with force and arms did disfigure and from
the tail of the same Gelding then and there the hair thereof did with force and arms unlawfully
Cutt to the great damage of the said Robert Collier and against the peace of
the said Right Honourable the Lord proprietary that now is his good rule and Government
which same bill so as af.d writ containing the false matter af.d the af.d Robert at the
af.d Court of Goal delivery held for Somerset County af.d in the said County the said twenty
first day of december Anno Dom seventeen hundred thirty and six af.d before the Justices
af.d did exhibit and to the Jurors then and there being Impannelled and sworn to
enquire for the said Lord proprietary and the body of the County af.d as a true bill
of Indictment falsly and Maliciously did cause to be delivered and with an
Intent that the said false matter in the said bill contained should by the Jurors af.d
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1737-1738
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