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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1740-1742
Volume 861, Page 237   View pdf image
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                      March Court                                   1741               237

the Information af.d to any person or persons whatsoever   Thereupon a Certain Joseph Jones of
Somerset County planter present herein Court his proper person undertook for the said John Jones to pay
all fee or fees that might Accrew due by means of the premisses and Information af.d to any person or persons
whatsoever &c


His Lordship
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Arcadah Wheeler
 Somerset ss/
                                              Be it Remembred that Robert Jenckins Henry Gent 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 of the same Lord proprietary held for Somerset
County af.d (to wit) at dividing Creek in the same County the Eighteenth day of March in the year of our Lord
one thousand seven hundred and forty one before John Scott Esqr and his Associates the same Lord proprietary
his Justices of the same County Court and for the same Lord proprietary doth give the Court here to understand
and be Informed that Arcadah Wheeler late of all hallows parish in the said County of Somerset spinster the
tenth day of aprill in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty one at the parish af.d in the County
af.d within the Jurisdiction of this Court did Commit fornication with a Certain Solomon Crapper and did permit
the same Solomon then and there to have Carnal knowledge of her body and a bastard Child on the body of
her the same Arcadah then and there to beget to the high displeasure of Allmighty God to the Evill Example
of all others in such Case offending Contrary to the peace of the said Lord proprietary that now is his good rule
and Government and against the form of the Act of Assembly in such Case lately made and provided &.c  whereupon
the same Attorney of the said Lord propry prays Advice of the Court here in the premisses and that due process
of Law against the said Arcadah in this part may be made to Answer unto the same Lord propry of and upon
the premisses &c

                            Thereupon Command is to the sheriffe of the County af.d that he should take the said
Arcadah Wheeler if &c to answer &c  And now to witt at that same Court held for the County af.d at dividing
Creek this Sixteenth day of March Anno Dom one thousand seven hundred and forty one before the af.d
Justices Came the af.d Arcadah Wheeler in her proper person According to a Certain recognizance by her and her Security
in this 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 specified above upon her Imposed in manner and
form as by the Information af.d above upon her supposed and maketh Oath that a Certain Solomon Crapper is
is the begetter of the Child she stands Informed for
                                                                                                                                           Whereupon


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