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March
Court
1736
3 as by the Indictment aforesaid above against ^her^ Imposed says that she of the premisses afd above against her Imposed she is Guilty thereof &.c Whereupon all and Singular the premisses by the Court here seen heard and fully understood it Seemeth to the Court here by Inspection that the Child of the afd Molatto Kate that she now here stands Indicted for is a Child begott by a negro Contrary to the Laws of this province &c It is Considered by the Court here that the afd Molatto Kate return back into her Master Service and that her Master to witt William Coleburn and that he the said Coleburn return her the said Kate at the Expiration of her now Service to the Justices of the County Court of Somerset in Court Sitting or to the Sheriff of the County to reemburst to the said County the Severall Officers their Fees due by Occasion of the premisses afd and to be Sold by the Court for Seven Years according to Law for Such Inordinate Copulation &a and for as much as their is due to the County thirty one years Service from such Issue of Such inordinate Copulators Whereupon the Justices of Somerset County in Court Judicially Sitting did then & there Sell the said Child Called Alice born of the afd Kate (and begott by a negro by all appearance) unto William Coleburn Jun.r untill she arrives at the age of thirty one years the said Alice being now about Six months old the Said Alice to Serve the said William Coleburn his heirs or assignes the full term afd &a In consideration thereof the said William Coleburns pay fifty Shillings Curr.t money for the use of Somerset County &c
fornication with [illegible] af.d unknown and did permitt the same unknown person then and there [illegible] of her body and to beget then and there a basterd Child on the body [illegible] displeasure of Almighty God to the evil Example of all [illegible] Contrary to the peace of the said Lord proprietary that now is his [illegible] not the [illegible] Act of assembly in such case lately [illegible] Test Thomas [illegible] Endorsed as followeth viz.t a true Bill [illegible] the sheriff of Somerset County that he should take the [illegible] his bailywick and her should safe keep so that he might [illegible] Lordships County Court of Somerset to be held in the Court [illegible] the third tuesday of |
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