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March Court
1740
60 seven hundred and forty to Answer unto his said Lordship of the Indictment af.d &c And now to witt the third Tuesday of March being the seventeenth day of the same month Ann Dom One thousand Seven hundred and forty at a Court then held before his Lordships Justices at dividing Creek Came the said Jane Harman in her proper person and had a hearing of the Indictm.t aforesaid and saith that she Cannot deny but she is Guilty of the premisses afd in the Indictment aforesaid specified above upon her Imposed in manner and form as the Indictment afd above upon her Supposed and maketh Oath that a Certain John Jackson is the begetter of the Child she stands Indicted for Whereupon all and singular the premisses being seen and fully understood It is Considered by the Court here that the aforesaid Jane Harman pay unto his said Lordship the Lord Proprietary for her fine by the Court here upon her Imposed for and by Occasion of the premisses aforesaid whereof in form aforesaid she is Convict thirty Shillings Curr.t money of Maryland and that the said Jane be taken to Satisfie his said Lordship of the fine aforesaid &.c Whereupon the said Jane Harman is Ordered to Give Security to Save and Keep Indemnified the Justices of the County of Somerset County and their Successors from all troubles burthens and Charges that might accrew by means of the birth and maintainance of the Child afd &c Thereupon the Said Jane Harman with a Certain Robert Warren of Somerset County planter her security both present herein Court in their proper persons acknowledged them selves Indebted unto his Lordship the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary of the province of Maryland in Thirty pounds Curr.t Money of their bodies goods or Chattles Lands or tenements severally to be made and Levied to the Use of the Inhabitants of the County of Somerset for the time being If it Happen that the said Jane Harman and Robert Warren their heirs Executors and Administrators 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 Court for the time being as also the Inhabitants of Said County of and from all Costs Charges and Troubles whatsoever for or by Reason of the Birth maintainance nourishing and bringing up of the said Child and of and from other Suits Charges troubles and demands whatsoever touching or Concerning of the Same &c Likewise the said Jane Harman is Ordered to give Security for the payment of any fee or fees due upon the Indictmt and premisses afd to any person or persons whatsoever &.a Thereupon the said Robert Warrant present here in Court in his proper person undertook for the said Jane Harman to pay and fee or fees or all fees that might accrew ^due^ by means of the premisses and Indictm.t aforesaid to any person or persons whatsoever &c
Jurors being presented that John Coffin late of Alhallows parish in the said County of Somerset planter the tenth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty with force and Arms &.c at the parish af.d in the County af.d ten yards of Shalloon of the value of two hundred and fifty pounds of tobacco of the goods and Chattles of a Certain John Newbold then and there found then and there feloniously did steal take and bear away Contrary |
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