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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1740-1742
Volume 861, Page 276b   View pdf image
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       June Court                               1742                       276

Elizabeth Spear and Samuell Carter their heirs Ex.rs Adm.rs or any or either of them doe not from time to time and at all
times hereafter acquit discharge and save harmless as well the Justices of Somerset County for the time being as allso the
Inhabitants of said County of and from all Costs Charges and burthens whatsoever for or by reason of the birth maintainance
nourishing and bringing up of the af.d Child and of and from all other suits Charges troubles or demands whatsoever touching
or Concerning of the same &c

                      Whereupon the said Elizabeth Spear is ordered to give good Security for the payment of all fee or Fees due on
the Indictment af.d to any person or persons whatsoever  Thereupon Samuell Carter of Somerset County planter present
herein Court undertook for the said Elizabeth Spear to pay all fee or fees due to any person or persons whatsoever on the Indictment
af.d to in Case the said Elizabeth Spear doth not pay the same &c


The Same
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Benjamin Derixon
 Sommerset ss     Memorandum  That at a Court of his Lordship the Right Honourable
the Lord proprietary of the province of Maryland held at dividing Creek in Somerset County
the third Tuesday of March to witt the sixteenth day of the same month Anno Dom one thousand
seven hundred and forty one before his said Lordships Justices the peace in the County af.d to keep Assigned by the
Oath of twelve Jurors presented that Benjamin Derixon late of Allhallows parish in the said County of Somerset planter
the fifteenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty at the parish af.d in the County
af.d within the Jurisdiction of this Court did Commit fornication with a Certain Robert Freman and of her Body then
and there had Carnal knowledge and a bastard Child on the body of her the same Rachell then and there did 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
right honrble the 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

                      Thereupon Command was given to the sheriffe of Somerset County that he should take the said Benj,a Derixson
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
Lordship County Court of Somerset to be held at dividing Creek the third tuesday of June Anno Dom one thousand seven hundred
and forty two to answer unto his said Lordship of the Indictment af.d &c

                And now to witt at a Court held for the County aforesaid the third Tuesday of June being the fifteenth day of
the Same month Anno Dom One thousand seven hundred and forty Two before his Lordships Justices at dividing Creek
Came the aforesaid Benjamin Derixon in his proper person and had a hearing of the Indictment aforesaid and
saith that he Cannot deny but that he is guilty of the premsises aforesaid in the Indictm.t aforesaid Specified in
manner and form as by the Indictment aforesaid above against him Supposed and the premisses aforesaid in the
Indictment aforesaid Expressly Acknowledgeth      And for as much as it doth appear to the Court here that the
aforesaid Benjamin Derixon was Guilty of adultery and not of fornication he being a married man at the time  
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