1727 TWO COL - AM DOCS MARY DAVENPORT & LIHESTER FORNICATION WITH EXAMINATION
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These Absolutely Super Colonial American Documents of 1727 are on Hand Laid Paper & Both Have Papermakers Watermarks. Bristol: That on The 13th Day of April in The First Year Of The Reign of Our Sovereign Lord George The 2nd By The Grace Of God Lihester Palmer of Little Compton In The County of Bristol Laborer Personally Appeared and Became Bound By Recognizance To Our Sovereign Lord The King for his Sureties in The Sum of 50 Pounds & Henry Head & Elisha Woodworth Both of L...ittle Compton Yeoman in the Sum of 25 pounds Each To Be Levied on There Goods, Chattels Lands or Tenements if Default Be Made in The Condition &-----The Condition of This Recognizance is Such That if The Above Bounden Lihester Palmer Make His Personal Appearance at The next Court of The General Sessions of The Peace To Be Held At Bristol For The County of Bristol on The 2nd Tuesday of July Next and Then & There to Make Answer To Mary Davenport a Single Women of Little Compton Who Hath ACCUSED HIM OF GETTING HER WITH CHILD & TO ABIDE THE DETERMINATION OF THE COURT & Not To Depart Without License The This Present Recognizance To Be Void or Otherwise to Remain in Full Force Power and Virtue. On Verso It States Lihester Palmer Recognizance, 6 1/2 X 8 1/4" $2.00 for 1st Class Mail BOTH DOCUMENTS. Satisfaction Always Guaranteed, The 2nd Document The Examination of Mary Davenport Daughter of Thos Davenport of Little Compton in The County of Bristol. Question- Are You With Child? - Answer Yes Question Who is The Father ? Answer Lihester Palmer Question-When Do You Expect To Leyin ? Answer- Latter End of July or The Beginning of August. Taken Upon The 30th Day of April in Little Compton Aforesaid Before Me Thomas Church JP On Verso It states Mary Davenport Examination. 2nd Document. 4 1/2 X 6 1/4"
