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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1737-1738
Volume 859, Page 265b   View pdf image
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           June Court          1738                    265

Court in their proper persons acknowledged themselves Indebted unto his Lordship the Lord Propry of
the province of Maryland in five pounds Sterling Each of their severall goods and Chattells Lands and tenements
Severall to be made and Levied if it Happen that the said Hannah Goldsmith do not make her
personall appearance before the Justices of his Lordships County Court of Somerset to be held at dividing
Creek the third Tuesday of August then next following and do not then and there give Such Evidence as she
shall now against the afd John in relation to ^the^ begetting of the bastard Child afd and do depart the same
Court without Leave &a


His Lordship
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Eliz.a Smith
 Somerset County ss  
                                       The Jurors for the Right Honourable the Lord proprietary
that now is for the body of Somerset County aforesaid upon their
Oath do present that Elizabeth Smith late of Somerset parish in the County af.d Spinster
the tenth day of March Ann Dom seventeen hundred thirty and six at the parish af.d in
the County af.d within the Jurisdiction of this Court did Commit fornication with acetain
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 bastard Child
on the body of her the same Elizabeth 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 Government and against the form of the Act
of Assembly in such Case lately made and provided &a
Testis Whittington Johnson
                                                 On the foregoing Bill of Indictment it was Endorsed Billa vera Alex.d
Leckie Foreman
                                  Thereupon Command was given to the sheriff of Somerset County that he should
taken the said Elizabeth Smith of Somerset County if &a to answer &a and afterwards to witt the
Twenty first day of March Ann Dom One thousand seven hundred and thirty Seven before his Lordships
Justices at dividing Creek Came the afd Eliz.a Smith in her proper person and had a hearing
of the Indictment afd and saith that she is not thereof Guilty and for tryall thereof she puts herselfe
upon the Country and Robert Jenckins Henry Gent who for his said Lordship in this part
followeth Likewise   Thereupon the said Eliza Smith is ordered to give security for her appearance
from day to day and Every day of this term to answer the premisses afd above upon her Imposed
Thereupon the said Elizabeth Smith with Capell King of Somerset County Gent ^her security^ both present
herein Court in their proper persons acknowledged themselves themselves Indebted unto his
Lordship the Lord Proprietary in Twenty pounds Sterling Each of their goods and Chattells Lands
and tenements severally to be made and Levied to the Use of his Lordships his heirs and
successors to be made and Levied   If it Happen that the said Eliz.a Smith doe not make
her personall appearance from day to day and Every day of this term before his Lordships
                                                                                                                         Justices


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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1737-1738
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