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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1740-1742
Volume 861, Page 149b   View pdf image
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    August Court                                            1741                            149

being Called Likewise Came who to say the truth of and upon the premisses being elected tryed and sworn upon their Oath say
that the aforesaid Katherine Wildman is not guilty of the premisses aforesaid in the Indictment aforesaid above specefied in
manner and form as the aforesaid Katherine above for herselfe by pleading alledged

                         Whereupon all and Singular the premisses being seen and by the Court here fully understood  It is
Considered by the Court here that the aforesaid Katherine Wileman be quiet and goe thereof without day &.a  Whereupon the
said Katherine Wileman is Ordered to give Security for the payment of all fee or fees due on the Indictment and premisses afd to any
person or persons whatsoever  thereupon Came here into Court a Certain John Wileman of Sommerset County Gent and undertook
for the said Katherine Wileman and Assumed upon himselfe to pay all fee or fees due to any person or persons whatsoever on the Indictment
and premisses aforesaid in Case the said Katherine Wileman doth not pay the same &a



The Same
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Sarah Summers
 Sommerset ss
                                          Be it remembred that Robert Jenckins Henry Gentleman attorney of
the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary that now is who for the Same Lord Proprietary in this part
prosecuteth doth Come here into the County Court the Same Lord propry held for the said County of
Somerset (to witt) at dividing Creek in the same County the Eighteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred
and forty one before Robert King Esq.r and his Associates the same Lord proprietary his Justices of the same County Court and for
the said Lord proprietary doth give the Court here to understand and be Informed that Sarah Sommers late of Coventry parish in the
said County of Somerset spinster the twentieth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty at Somerset
County af.d within the Jurisdiction of this Court did Commit fornication with a Certain person unknown and did permit the same ^person^ unknown
then and there to have Carnal knowledge of her body and then and there a bastard Child on her body to beget to the high displeasure of
Almighty God to the evill Example of all others in such Case offending against the peace of the Right Honrble the Lord propry his
good rule and Government and Contrary to the Act of Assembly in such Case made and provided &c  Whereupon the same Attorney of
the same Lord propry for prays the advice of the Court in the premisses and that due process against the said
Sarah Somers may Issue to Answer &c
                                                                Thereupon it is Commanded the Sheriff of Somerset County that he Should take the
said Sarah Summers if &.a to answer &.a      And now to witt at the same Court held for the County af.d at dividing Creek the third
Tuesday of August being the Eighteenth day of the same month Anno Dom one thousand seven hundred and forty one above said
before the af.d Justices Came the af.d Sarah Sommers in her proper person According to a Certain Recognizance by her and her Securitys
in that part first Acknowledged and had a hearing of the Information af.d and saith that she Cannot deny but that she is Guilty of the
premisses af.d in the Information af.d Specefyed in manner and form as by the Information af.d above against her supposed and the
premisses in the Information af.d Expressly Acknowledgeth and maketh Oath that a Certain John Parkes is the begetter of the Child
she stands Indicted for and is willing to pay her fine for the fact af.d &c

                   Whereupon all and Singular the premisses being seen and by the Court here fully understood      It is Considered by the
Court here that the af.d Sarah Summers pay unto his said Lordship the Right Honrble Charles Absolute Lord and proprietary of the
province of Maryland for her fine by the Court hereupon her Imposed for and by Occasion of the premisses af.d whereof in form af.d
                                                                                                                                                                                              she


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