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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1740-1742
Volume 861, Page 59   View pdf image
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          March Court                         1740                   59

Almighty God to the Evill Example of All others in such Case offending Contrary the peace of the Right Honble
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 it is Commanded the Sherife that he should Take the said Rose Roach if &.a to answer
&.a  And afterwards to witt the same seventeenth day of March and Year abovesd at a Court then held before his Lordships
Justices at dividing Creek in and for the County afd Came the aforesaid Rose Roach in her proper person and had a hearing
of the Information aforesaid and saith that she Cannot deny but that she is Guilty of the premisses af.d in the Information
aforesaid specified above upon her Imposed in manner and form as by the Information afd above against her supposed

                      Whereupon all and singular the premisses being seen and by the Court here fully understood
And for as much as it appeareth to the Court here that by Law there is due to the County of Somerset seven
years service from such person or persons that are Guilty of Such Inordinate Copulation as aforesaid &a

                   Wherefore it is Considered by the Justices here that the afd Rose Roach return home
to Mistress Mary Fountains service and that she serve her said Mistress four full months to Commence
at the End of her new Servitude which is adjudged by the Court here for full Satisfaction for damages trouble
Loss of time and Expences her said Mistress had and was at at the time of her Lying in in Child bedd &a

          Whereupon the said Mary Fountain is Ordered by the Court here to Return the said Rose Roach to the
County Court of Somerset or Sheriffe of the County to make Satisfaction to the County afd for the afd seven years
service and the severall Officers Officers their fees due by means of the premisses afd &c

                         Thereupon the said Mary Fountain present here in Court in her proper person undertook to
deliver up the afd Rose Roach at the Expiration of her servitude as afd unto the County Court of Somerset or
the Sher of the County &c


His Lordship
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Henry Walston
 And now (to witt) the seventeenth day of March Ann Dom One thousand seven hundred
and forty at a Court then held at dividing Creek in and for the County aforesaid before his
Lordships Justices Came a Certain Henry Walston in his proper person according to a Certain
Recognizance by him and his security in this part before acknowledged and prays that his appearance may be
Recorded and he and his security discharged &.a   Thereupon the said Henry Walstons appearance is
recorded and he and his security accordingly discharged &a

                         Whereupon the said Henry Walstons is Ordered to give new Recognizance for his
appearance before his Lordships Justices at the next Court to be held at dividing Creek the third Tuesday of
June then next following to answer his Committing of fornication with a Certain Mary Miles &a

            Thereupon the said Henry Walston with Robert King of Somerset County Esq.r ^his security^ both present here
in Court in their proper persons acknowledged themselves Indebted unto his Lordship the Right Honourable
the Lord Proprietary in Twenty pounds Curr.t money of their body's Goods or Chattles Lands or tenements severally
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