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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1737-1738
Volume 859, Page 3b   View pdf image
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                 March Court                         1736                   3

March then next to answer ^unto^ his Lordship of and Concerning her Committing of fornication &c and that
thereof he should not fail &c
And afterwards the said third Tuesday of March to witt the fifteenth day of the same month
Anno Dom one thousand seven hundred and thirty six before the Justices of his Lordships County
Court of Somerset now here held in the Court house at dividing Creek in and for the same County
Came the said Kate in her proper person and had a hearing of the Indictment af.d and being
Instantly demanded how she would acquitt herself of the premisses af.d says that of the premisses
afd above upon her Imposed she is Guilty thereof &.c   Whereupon all and singular the premisses by the Court
here seen heard and fully understood  It is Considered by the Court here that the afd Malatto Kate return
to her Master William Colebourn Service and that at the Expiration of her ^now^ Service he return her to the
County Court of Somerset or Sheriffe of the County to reembust to the said County what to [illegible]
paid by to the Severall Officers for their Fees due by means of the premisses afd    Child [illegible]



The Same
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Mary Walker
 Somerset County sst
                                   The Jurors for the Right honourable [illegible]
proprietary that now is for the body of Somerset County af.d upon their oath
do present that Mary Walker late of all hallows parish in the County af.d
Spinster the tenth day of November Anno Dom seventeen hundred thirty and six at the
parish af.d in the County af.d within the Jurisdiction of the Court did Commit fornication
with a Certain person to the Jurors af.d unknown and did permitt the same unknown person
then and there to have Carnal knowledge of her body and to beget then and there a basterd
Child on the body of her the same Mary to the high displeasure of almighty God to the evil evil
Example of all others in our [illegible] offending contrary to the peace of the said Lord proprietary
that now is his good rule and [illegible] and against the form of the Act of assembly in such case
lately made and provided &c
Test Wheatly Dennis                  [illegible] bill of Indictment it was endorsed viz.t a true Bill
p William Jones [illegible]   Thereupon Command was given to the sheriff of Somerset
County that he [illegible] said Mary Walker if she should be found in his bailywick
and her should [illegible] he might have her body before the Justices of his Lordships
County Court [illegible] in the Court house at dividing Creek in the same County the
third tuesday [illegible] answer unto his Lordships of and Concerning her Committing
of fornication [illegible] she should not fail &c                                                       And



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