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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1725-1727
Volume 840, Page 264b   View pdf image
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                    Au June Court          1726        264

Richard Crockett makes Chose of the afd Robert Crockett as  his guardiant    thereupon Its ordered by the Court
that the afd Rob.t Crockett take all the Estate of the said Richard Crocketts into his Care both Real and personall
and that he give security according to Law in Relation to guardian's &c

Daniel a negro ^boy^ belonging to Benj.a Burton is adjudged by the Court to the age of ten Years &c

    George Howard appointed overseer of the Roads in the stead of Saml Derickson for the Ensueing
Year &c


Richard Knight
        Petn
         To the Worshipfull ^Justice^ of Somersett County Sitting the petition of
Richard Knight of the said County        humbly sheweth

                                     that whereas there was formerly an Indian Bridge Over dividing Creek in the
County afd on which the boundarys of a tract Land belonging to your Petitioner Called Mitchels
adventure depends which said bridge is destroyed and the wittnesses to prove where it stood
Ancient your petitioner therefore prays your worships to appoint Commissioners to Examine
Evidences wittnesses to Perpetuate the Place where the said Bridge stood according to the form
of the act of assembly in Such Case made &.c    and your petitioner as in duty bound will pray
                                                                                        Richard Knight

       The petition afd being Read and heard and the Premisses Considered      It's thereupon
Ordered by the Court that a Commissioner Issue as by the Pet.n afd is pray and that John Scott
Will.m Handy Robert Mitchell and Peter Benton ^of somersett County Gent^ be Commissioners and Execute the same Commission
according to act of assembly in Such Case made and provided &c

          Joseph MccClester of Somersett County Gent Comes into Court and brings with him his serv.t
man Called John White who had Run away and absented himselfe forty days out of his service and
Likewise produced an account of four hundred and Eighty pounds of tobacco for taking the said
John White up and Other Charge as appears by the same acco.t    And prays the Court that the said
John White may be adjudged to serve according to act of assembly in Such Case made and provided

          Whereupon the said Jno White Present herein Court acknowledged the Same Runaway time to be
Justly due thereupon the said John White is adjudged by the Court to Serve his said Master Joseph
MccClester five days for Every day he absented himselfe out of his Masters Service which amounts
to two hundred days &.c and for the afd four hundred and Eighty pounds of tobo paid for takeing up
and Other Charge the said John White is adjudged to serve his said Master six months or Eigh One hundred
and Eighty days   which said Service as afd ^adjudged^ for the Runaway time and tobacco paid doth amount
in the whole to three hundred and Eighty days the said service to Commence at the Expiration of
the said John White's already servitude &c


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