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1729 March 6 Common Pleas Held at Richmond Town in the 



CO. aforesaid at the Court House 2°" Ge° II 



1729 Sept. 2 Sessions Held at the Court House at Richmond 



Town S'^Ge-n 



1729 Sept. 4 Common Pleas Held at Richmond Town at the 



Court House 3'" Ge° II 



1730 March 17 Sessions Held at the Court House at Richmond 



Town S^'Ge'H 



1730 March 17 Common Pleas Held at Richmond Town in the 



Co. of Rich*, at the Court House 3'''' Ge° II 



1730 Sept. 22 Sessions Held at Richmond Town in the Co. of 



Rich*", at the Court House 4*^" Ge" II 



1730 Sept. 22 Common Pleas Held at Richmond Town in the 



Co. of Rich**, at the Court House 4*" Ge" II 



That court was sometimes held at private or pubHc houses may 

 be inferred from the entry under date of March 2, 1714, that the 

 Court of Sessions "adjourned till tomorrow at Ten of the Clock 

 in the forenoon to ye North Side To Coll. Grahams" (Clute, 

 166). 



Queen Anne died August i, 17 14. The captions of the records 

 of both courts held the following September declare the terms 

 to have been held in the thirteenth year of her reign (which com- 

 menced March 8, 1702), indicating that the justices had not been 

 officially notified of her decease. • 



At the March term of the Sessions, 171 5, license was granted 

 for the location of the Dutch Church near the burying ground, 

 probably at or near its present site at Port Richmond (Clute, 

 167). 



No term of either court was held in September 1715, perhaps 

 because the justices felt uncertain as to their tenure of office 

 under the new monarch. The record of the March term, 1716, 

 of the Court of Common Pleas is blank, except as referred to in 

 the record of the March term of the Court of Sessions of the 

 same year, which is here given in full. 



