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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1740-1742
Volume 861, Page 316b   View pdf image
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          August Court           1742                             316

       Whereas there was eighteen pounds paper money Levied in the Publick Levy Last for the use of Sommerset County
&a  And for as much as it appears to the Court here that the aforesaid eighteen pounds of Right doth belong to Col Levin Gale
and Col Robert King  And the said Money being produced herein Court by the Sheriffe of the County afd to witt John Handy GEnt

                   And Whereupon the said John Handy is ordered by the Court here to pay unto the aforesaid Col Robert King Two
pounds fourteen Shillings Curr.t money maryland Currency part of the aforesaid Eighteen pounds and the Residue of the aforesaid
Eighteen pounds to witt fifteen pounds and six shillings the said John Handy is Ordered to pay to Coll Levin Gale &a


William More &a
Thomas Shiles    petn
      To the Worshipfull Justices of Sommerset County in Court now Sitting The Humble petition of William
More and Thomas Shiles     Most Humbly sheweth  That Whereas Your petitioners were securitys
for the Estate of John Nelson deceased and the widdow having Intermarried with a Certain John Pitts and the said

Pitts and his wife are designed to Leave this County but are both very Willing to Leave the Children of the deceased and
their Estates in Your petitioners hands or Care  Your petitioners Therefore Humbly prays Your Worships Will be
pleased to make Such Order for the delivery of the said Children and their Estates into Your petitioners possession in
Order to keep them Indemnifyed and they as in duty bound shall pray

          The petition aforesaid being Read and heard and fully understood and mature deliberation thereupon had &.a  It is
Considered by the Court here that the aforesaid John Pitts and Ann his wife Lately Called Ann Nelson deliver up unto the afd
William More and Thomas Shiles all the Estate of the aforesaid William Nelson dec.d (and the Children of said William) that they
the said John Pitts and Ann his wife Lately Called Ann Nelson have in their hands and possession and any ways of Right doth
belong unto the Legall Representatives of the said William Nelson dec.d or give them the said William More and Thomas
Shiles Counter Security according to act of assembly in Such Case made and provided Otherwise attachment or distress
upon application will Issue Out of this Court against the Estate afd to possess themselves therewith &a


William Stougton
  petn for negro Tax free
           To the Worshipfull Justices of Sommerset County in Court Sitting the petition of William
Stoughton humbly Sheweth that your petitioner hath a negro man Slave named Bussey for whom
Taxes hath been paid these forty five Years and by what your petitioner Can Learn is nigh Seventy Years of age by reason
of which great age the decay of his Eye Sight the Loss of his memory and Other Infirmitys the said Slave is become Useless
to your petitioner                  Wherefore your petitioner humbly prays Your Worships to take the premisses into Consideration
and will be pleased to Set the said negro Slave Tax free for the future as Your petitioner will ever pray

          The petition aforesaid being Read and heard and fully understood   It is Considered by the Court here that the
aforesaid negro Bussey be for the future Tax free as by the petition aforesaid is praid &a


Whereas a Certain Mary Jarvine a molatto woman having Lately had a boy Called Bobo Jarvis born of her body that
was begott of her body by a negro and for as much as such Issue becomes Servants to the Use of the County where they are
                                                                                                                                                                                     born


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