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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1740-1742
Volume 861, Page 71   View pdf image
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         March Court                          1740                        71

His Lordship
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Negro Dinah
 Somerset ss.t  The Jurors for the Right Honourable the Lord proprietary that now is
for the body of Somerset County upon their Oath do present that  Certain Negro woman
named Dinah the Slave of George Hardy of Stepney parish in the said County of Somerset
planter the fifteenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred
and forty with fore and Arms at the parish af.d in the County af.d a Certain Outhouse Contiguous to and used with
the dwelling house of him the said George Hardy at Stepny parish af.d in the ^af.d^ County of Somerset scituated and
and being with divers good and Merchandizes (to witt) Five hundred pounds of tobacco one Gun of the Value of
Two hundred pounds of tobacco and Eighty and nine sheafs of Flax unbroke to the value of three hundred pounds
of Tobacco of the goods and Chattles of the same George Hardy in the same house then being the day and year af.d
of her malice prepense and moved by the Instigation of the Devill voluntarily and feloniously on fire did set
and with the same fire then and there the house af.d wherein was then the goods af.d ^Voluntarily and feloniously^ did burn and with that fire
destroy Contrary to the peace of the Right Honourable the Lord propry that now is his good rule and
Government and against the form of the form of the Act of Assembly in such Case lately made and provided &c
Testes      George Hardy Negro Rose Negro Robin Negro Caesar

                On the foregoing Bill of Indictment it was Endorsed True Bill Parker Selby foreman
And Now to witt the seventeenth day of March Anno Dom One thousand seven hundred and forty at a Court
then held at dividing Creek in and for the County of Somerset before his Lordships Justices Came the aforesaid
negro woman Dinah under Custody of John Handy ^Gent^ sheriffe of the County afd in whose Custody for the Cause afd
before that time was Committed and to the Barr now here Ledd in her proper person  And being Instantly
asked how she of the felony in the Indictment afd above specified will thereof acquit herselfe the same Negro
woman Dinah say that she is in noe sort thereof Guilty  and thereupon of Good and Evill she puts herselfe
upon the Country               Therefore Immediately Lett Come thereof the Jury before the afd Justices
Last mentioned here &.a and who neither &.a to Recognize &.a and the Jurors of that Same Jury by the afd Sheriffe
to this Impannelled to witt David Polk John Woolford William Gray Edward Roak Thomas Pollett Geo Tull
Panthur Laws Littleton Townsend ^John White^ Richard Wallis John Purnall &c and James Stephan Bredall being Called Came
who to say the truth of the premisses being Elected Tryed and sworn upon their Oath say that the aforesaid Negro
woman Dinah for her selfe above by pleading alledged nor never herselfe by Occasion afd did withdraw

             Whereupon all and singular the premisses afd being seen and heard and fully understood   It is Considered
by the Court here that the afd Negro woman Dinah be quiet and goe thereof without day &a


Negro Rose Ceasar and Robin all being bound by Recognizance to attend this Court in Order to give Evidence on behalfe
of his Lordship against Negro Dinah appears herein Court and are discharged therefrom &a


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