Minutes of Court ok Yoiioc.ama County. 83 



in Ualtiinorc in the Small Pox. The Court then a])plicd to 

 Mr. janies Inni.s, who the .said Colonel Pentico.st had appointed 

 to serve as Clerk in his ab.sence, and when application was made 

 to said Mr. Innis, he refused to attend the Court ; his answer 

 was that he only agread to 'attend the March Court — upon 

 which the Court Choose Mr. Isaac Cox for their Clerk who 

 Came into Court and swore into said Office. 



Zachariah Connell, William Lee and Andrew Heth came 

 into Court and took the Oath of Captains of the Militia. 



lohn Cannon Came into Court and took the Oath as Colonel 

 of the Melitia. 



Henrv Taylor came into Court and took the oath of Major of 

 the Melitia. 



Joshua Wright was applied to by the Court to Swear into his 

 Captain's commission, but he refused as he was a Leiutenant of 

 a former Nominal Company. 



John Meligan being charged with Felloniously Murdering 

 William Cuttery and being Convicted for the same, was 

 brought into Court, and he acknowledged he was guilty of the 

 Crime he stod charged with, and the Court is of Opinion that 

 the said Crimminal for said fellony ought to be sent to the 

 general Court for farther Trial. 



John Melony and Samson Beavers, Securities for Joseph 

 Ross, for his appearance at the Court, as by his recognizance 

 ajipears, came into the Court and delivered said Ross to the 

 Court, and after the Court had beared the Complaint, was fined 

 twenty five Shellings for swearing four Blasfemous Oaths before 

 John Cannon, one before John Johnston — and ordered that 

 (7) the said Ross give Security for his better Behavior For one 

 year and one day. 



John Melony came into Court and agreed to be security for 

 Joseph Ross's keeping the Piece and better Behavior to the 

 Subjects of the Common Wealth, and esspecially to Colonel 

 John Cannon, whome he had threatened to abuse the first opi)er- 

 tunity. The said security bound in the sum of one Hundred 

 pounds. 

 * Upon the Petition of Benjaman Jones ordered that John 



I5ennitt be summoned to Paring a Boy Claimed by the said 

 Jones to the Next Court. 



