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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1737-1738
Volume 859, Page 56   View pdf image
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       June Court       1737                        56

His Lordship
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Eleaner Mahony
 Somerset sst
                         Memorandum That at a sessions of the peace of
his Lordship the Right honourable the Lord Proprietary of the province
of Maryland held at dividing Creek in Somerset County on the third Tuesday of
of June to witt the twenty first day of the Same month Anno Dom One thousand Seven hundred
and thirty Seven before Robert King Gent and others his associates Justices of his the said Lord
Proprietarys peace in the Same County to Conserve and also divers felonys trespasses and other
Malefeasances in the Same County Committed to hear and determine assigned by the Oath of William
Holland and twelve others presented that Eleanor Mahony late of Stepney parish in Somerset County
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 this Court did commit fornication with a
Certain 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 Eleanor 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 Goverment and against the form of the Act of assembly in
such case offending lately made and provided &c         Thereupon Command was Given to
the Sheriffe of Somerset County that he Should take the Said Eleanor Mahony if &c to answer &c and
afterwards to witt the Same third Tuesday of June being the twenty first day of the Same Month ann Dom
One thousand Seven hundred and thirty Seven that Same term before his Lordships the right honrble
the Lord proprietary his Justices at dividing Creek in the County afd Came the Said Eleanor Mahony
in her proper person afd and had a hearing of the Indictment afd and Saith that She Cannot Gainsay
but that she is Guilty of the premisses afd in the Indictment Specified in manner & form as by the Indictment
aforesaid above against her Supposed and the premisses in the Indictment afd Expressly
acknowledgeth and makes Oath that a Certain Timothy Meddin is the begetter of the Child She stands
Indicted for but hath not wherewith to pay her fine for the fact afd but puts herselfe on the favour
of the Court         Whereupon all and Singular the premisses by the Court here Seen and fully understood
It is Considered that the af.d Eleanor Mahony be whipt at the publick whiping post
at dividing Creek in the County af.d with fifteen Strips on the bare back well Laid on untill
the blood appear and that the said Eleanor Mahony be taken &c  And thereupon as to the
Corporall punis^h^ment af.d Commanded is given to the sheriff of Somerset County that he do
thereof Imediate Execution by whiping of the said Eleanor Mahony at the publick
whiping post with fifteen stripes on the bare back well Laid on untill the blood appear
it being adjudged satisfaction for the offence af.d &c and afterwards in the same Court for
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1737-1738
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