Record of Upland Court: From the 14th of November 1676 to the 14th of June, 1681, Volume 7 |
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Page 102 - Slavery. — No Christian shall be kept in Bondslavery villenage or Captivity, Except Such who shall be Judged thereunto by Authority, or such as willingly have sould, or shall sell themselves...
Page 192 - ANDRIES PETERSEN P" JONAS NEALSON Def The def alleadging that hee was not tymely arrested ; The Case is referred til next Court ; Upon Complaint made by ye overseers of ye highways ; The Court haue and doe hereby Condemne John Champion to pay a fyne of twenty and fyve Gilders, for his not workeing upon ye highway when due warning was Given him ; Upon ye Request of william warner & william orian ; ordered that ye severall people that hold l^ands ; of that w°^ ye peticon™ bought of ye Indians Lying...
Page 102 - Matters shall Inhabit, provided that nothing in the Law Contained shall be to the prejudice of Master or Dame who have or shall by any Indenture or Covenant take Apprentices for Terme of Years, or other Servants for Term of years or Life.
Page 17 - In his instructions, he is commanded " to decide all controversies according to the laws, customs, and usages of Sweden...
Page 191 - Co?* approbation. The Co? haueing well Informed themselves about ye p'misses, doe allow thereof. Upon ye Peticon of magist! Jacobus fabritius ; ordered that ye Church wardens of ye Peticon? Church doe take care that Every one of those as haue Signed & promissed towards his maintaynance, doe pay him ye sumes promissed, upon payne of Execution ag?
Page 88 - Kakarikonk" the name conferred upon the region by the Indians. It was erected by Governor Printz in 1643, and was the first water-mill built within the territory now embraced within the limits of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. Printz, in his Report to the West India Company, Feb. 20, 1647, says . . . "this place I have called Mondal, building there a water mill, working it the whole year along, to great advantage for the country, particularly as the windmill formerly here before I came,...
Page 102 - Ordered : that three or four persons bee hired to build a little block-house at Amesland for to put in the said madman...
Page 40 - Co* of assizes ; 4. That all small matters under the vallue of fyve pounds may bee determined by the Court without a Jury, unlesse desiered by the partees, as alsoe matters of Equity; 5. That the Court for New Castle bee held once a moneth to begin the first Teusday in Each month and the Co:rt for uppland the whoorekill quarterly and to begin the second Tuesday of the month or oftener if occasion ; 6.
Page 40 - King ; But that a Constable bee Jearly in Each place chosen for the preservation of his May'l' Peace, w'!' all other Powers as Directed by Lawe. 2. That there bee three Courts held in the severall parts of the River and Bay as formerly, to wit, one in New Castle, one above att upplands, another below at the whorekill ; 3.
Page 99 - Goverments, for want of due Care and Examinacon of them by the Magistrates or Officers of the Townes through which they pass, It is Ordered, that if hereafter any Stranger or person unknown shall come to, or travill through any Towne or place within this Goverment without a Pass port or Certificate from whence hee came and whither he is bound, shall bee lyable to bee Seized upon by any Officer of the Towne or Place unto which hee comes, or through which he shall travill, there to bee Secured untill...