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March Court
1741
238 fornication with a Certain Absolom Hobbs and did permitt the Same Absolom then and there to have Carnal Knowledge of her body and a bastard Child on the body of her the Same Mary then and there to begett to the high displeasure of Almighty 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 made and provided &a Whereupon the Same attorney of the Said Lord proprietary for the Same Lord proprietary prays advise herein of the Court here in the premisses and that due process of Law in this part against the said Mary Bailey may be made to answer unto the said Lord proprietary of and upon the premisses afd &a Thereupon Command was given to the Sheriffe of Sommerset County that he Should Take the said Mary Bailey if &.a to answer &.a And now to witt at that Same Court held for dividing Creek for the County afd the third Tuesday of March to witt the Sixteenth day of the Same month Ann Dom One thousand Seven hundred and forty One before the aforesaid Justices Came the afd Mary Bailey in her proper person according to a Certain Recognizance in this part first acknowledged and had an hearing of the Information afd and saith that she Cannot deny but that she is guilty of the premisses afd in the Information afd Specified above upon her Imposed in manner and form as by the Information afd above upon her Supposed and make Oath that a Certain Absolom Hobbs is the begetter of the Child she stands Informed against and is willing to pay her fine for the fact aforesaid Wherefore all and Singular the premisses being seen and fully understood It is Considered by the Court here that the aforesaid Mary Bailey pay unto his Lordship the Lord proprietary for her fine by the Court here upon her Imposed for and by Occasion of the premisses afd whereof in form afd she is Convict thirty Shillings Curr.t money of Maryland and that the said Mary be taken to satisfie his said Lordship of the fine afd Whereupon the said Mary Bailey is Ordered to give Security for the payment of all fee or fees due on the Information aforesaid to any person or persons whatsoever Thereupon a Certain Thomas Hobbs of Sommerset County planter present herein Court in his proper person undertook for the said Mary Bailey to pay all fee or fees due to any person or persons whatsoever In Case the said Mary Bailey doth not pay the Same &a
Creek in the same County the Sixteenth day of march in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty one before John Scott Esq.r and his Associates Justices the said 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 Absolum Hobbs late of Stepney parish in the said County of Somerset planter 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 Mary Bailey and |
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