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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1740-1742
Volume 861, Page 68b   View pdf image
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          March Court                           1740                 68

The Same
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Sarah Challie
 Somerset ss.t  Be it Remembred that Robert Jenckins Henry Gent Attorney of the Right Honourable the Lord propry
that now is who for the same Lord proprietary in this part prosecuteth doth Come here into the County Court (to witt at dividing
Creek in the same County the Seventeenth day of Mary in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty before
John Scott Esq.r and his Associates the said Lord proprietary his Justices of the same County Court and for the same Lord proprietary doth
give the Justices here to understand and be Informed that Sarah Challie late of all hallows parish in the County af.d the twenty eighth day
of may in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty at the parish af.d in the County af.d and within the Jurisdiction of
this Court did Comit fornication with a Certain Wheatly Dennis and did permit the same Wheatly then and there to have Carnall knowledge
of her body and then and there to beget a bastard Child on the body of her the same Sarah 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 lately made and provided &.c  Whereupon the same Attorney of the said Lord
Proprietary prays Advice of the Court here in the premisses and that due process of Law in this part against the af.d Sarah Challie
may be made to answer the said Lord proprietary of and upon the premisses &c

                Thereupon Command is to the sheriffe of the County af.d that he should take ^the said^ Sarah Challie if &.c to answer &.c  And now (to witt)
at that same Court held for the County af.d at dividing Creek the af.d Seventeenth day of March Anno Dom one thousand seven
hundred and forty before the af.d Justices Came the af.d Sarah Challie by William Arbuckle her Attorney According to a Certain
Recognizance by her and her Security in this part Acknowledged and had a hearing of the Information af.d saith that he Cannot
Cannot deny but that she ^the said Sarah Chaille^ is Guilty of the premisses af.d in the Information af.d Specified above upon her Imposed in manner and
form as by the Information af.d above upon her Supposed and maketh oath that a Certain Wheatly Dennis is the begetter of
the Child she stands Informed against       Whereupon all and singular the premisses being seen and by the Court here fully
understood  It is Considered by the Court here that the af.d Sarah Chaille pay unto his Lordship the Lord Proprietary for her
fine ^by the Court here upon her Imposed^ for and by Occasion of the premissed by the Court hereupon Imposed whereof in form aforesaid she is Convict
thirty shillings Currant money of Maryland and that the said Sarah Chaille be Taken to satisfie his said
Lordship of the fine afd   Whereupon the said Sarah Chaille is Ordered to give Security for the payment of
all Fee or Fees due to any person or persons on the Information aforesaid      Thereupon a Certain Francis
Allen Jun.r present herein Court in his proper person undertook for the said Sarah Chaille and assumed upon himselfe
to pay all fee or fees due on the Information afd to any person or persons whatsoever In Case the said
Sarah Chaille doth not pay the same &c


The Same
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Wheatly Dennis
 Somerset ss.t
                                              Be it Remembred that Robert Jenckins Henry
Attorney of the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary that now is who for the
same Lord Proprietary in this part prosecuteth doth Come here into the County Court of the said Lord
Proprietary held for Somerset County (to witt) at dividing Creek in the same County the seventeenth day
of March in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty before John Scott Esq.r and
his associates the said Lord Proprietary his Justices of the same County Court and for the same Lord
                                                                                                                               Proprietary


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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1740-1742
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