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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1740-1742
Volume 861, Page 103   View pdf image
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          June Court                                 1741                       103

The petition af.d being read and heard and fully understood  It is Considered by the Court here that the af.d John Riggen be tax free
untill please God to restore him to a Capacity to labour for a lively hood for himself &c


Andrew Smith
       petn
           To the Worshipfull Justices of Somerset County Sitting the humble
petition of Andrew Smith most humbly Sheweth that whereas your petitioner is Seventy years
old or upward and is very much afflicted with sickness and violent pains so that at some
times your petitioner is Scarcely able to turn himself in his bed your petition humbly prays that your worships will sett
him tax free and your petitioner as in duty bound shall ever pray

       The petition af.d being read and heard and fully understood  It is COnsidered by the Court here that the af.d Andrew Smith
be for the future tax free as by the petition af.d is praid &c


His Lordship
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Sowel Long
 Somerset sst    Memorandum that at a Session of the peace of his Lordship the Right Honrble the Lord
proprietary of the province of Maryland held at dividing Creek in Somerset County the third tuesday of
March to witt the Seventeenth day of the same month Anno Dom seven hundred and forty before his said
Lordships Justices the peace in the County af.d to keep Assigned by the Oath of twelve Jurors being presented that Sowell Long
late of Coventry parish in the said County of Somerset shipwright the tenth day of may in the year of our Lord one thousand seven
hundred and thirty nine at the parish af.d in the County af.d within the Jurisdiction of this Court did Comit fornication with a Certain
Mary Peacock and of her body then and there had Carnall knowledge and a bastard Child on the body of her the same Mary
then and there did beget to the high displseasure of Almighty God to the Evill Example of all others in such Case offending Contrary
to the peace of the Right honourable the Lord propry that now is his good rule and Goverment and against the form of the Act of
Assembly in such Case lately made and provided &c

                        Thereupon it is Commanded the sheriffe of the County of Somerset that he should take the said Sowel Long if
he should be found in his bailywick and him should safe keep so that he might have his body before the Justices of his
Lordships County Court of Somerset to be held at dividing Creek the third Tuesday of June One thousand Seven hundred
and forty One to answer unto his Said Lordship of the Indictment aforesaid

                      And now to witt at that same Court held for the County aforesaid the third Tuesday of June being the
Sixteenth day of the Same month Ann Dom One thousand Seven hundred and forty One before the aforesaid Justices
at dividing Creek Came the aforesaid Sowell Long by William Arbuckle his attorney and had a hearing of the Indictm.t
aforesaid and saith that he Cannot deny but that the same Sowel is Guilty of the premisses in the Indictment afd
Specified above upon him Imposed in manner and form as by the Indictment aforesaid above against him Supposed
and the premisses in the Indictment afd Expressly acknowledgeth

                         Whereupon all and Singular the premisses being seen and by the Court fully understood

    It is Considered by the Court here that the aforesaid Sowel Long pay unto his Lordship the Right Honourable the
Lord Proprietary of the province of Maryland for his fine by the Court here upon him Imposed for and by Occasion
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