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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1737-1738
Volume 859, Page 259   View pdf image
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June Court               1738                 259

Somerset ss.t   Att 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 in the Court house at dividing Creek in the Same County the third Tuesday
of June to witt the twentieth day of the same month Ann Dom one thousand seven hundred
and thirty Eight by the said Lord Proprietary his Justices the peace in the Same County to
keep assigned of whom were present




The Worshipfull
 Coll Robert King
Capt John Smith
M.r William Stoughton
Capt John Handy
Capt Henry Ballard
 Capt Thomas Williams
Capt James Martin
Col George Dashiell
M.r Mitchell Dashiel
 His Lordships



Justices
                      John Henry sher                                                         Thomas Hayward Cl


Whereupon his Lordships Commission of the peace being produced here in Court was
Openly reced as followeth vizt   Maryland sst  Charles absolute Lord and
Proprietary of the provinces of Maryland and Avalon Lord Baron of Baltemore
&a  To Richard Tilghman Mathew Tilghman Ward John Rousby Benjamin Tasker
Philip Lee John Rider George Plater Edmund Jennings James Hollyday Charles
Hammond and Levin Gale Esq.r Robert King John Smith Baltemore hundred Willm
Stoughton Edward Chambers John Handy John Scott James Martin Thomas
Williams Henry Ballard David Wilson Geeorge Dashiel Thomas Gillis Mitchell
Dashiel Samuel Hopkins of Sinapuxent of Somerset County Gent Greeting Know
ye that we have assigned you and Every of you Jointly and Severally our Justices to
keep our peace within our County of Somerset and do Equal Law and Right to all the
Kings Subjects Rich and poor According to the Laws customs and Directions of the Acts
of assembly of this province so far forth as they provide and where they are silent according
to the Laws Statutes and Reasonable Customs of England as used and practised within
this province for the Conservation of the peace and Quiet Rule & Government of the
Kings subjects within our said County and to Chastize and punish all or any person
or persons offending against the said Acts Laws Statutes and Customs or any of them
According to the Directions thereof and to Call before you or any of you all those who
in our County aforesaid shall threaten to do any Bodily harm to any of the Kings Subjects
or to burn their Houses or otherwise break our peace and misbehave themselves to find ^sufficient^
security of the peace & Good behaviour to us and the said subjects & if they shall refuse to find
such security then you Cause them to be Committed in safe Custody untill they shall  
                                                                                                                         be


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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1737-1738
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