Chatham County NcArchives Court.....Harrington Indictment, Agnes 1773
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Source: Colonial Records Of North Carolina
Written: 1773

Indictment by the Chatham County Court of Oyer and Terminer against Agnes 
Harrington
North Carolina. Court of Oyer and Terminer (Chatham County)
July 19, 1773 
Volume 09, Pages 674-675

[From MS. Records in Office of Secretary of State.]

North Carolina 
Chatham County } Ss. 
At a Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Gaol Delivery begun and held in 
and for the County of Chatham at the Court House of the said County on the 
nineteenth Day of July in the thirteenth year of the Reign of our Sovereign 
Lord George the third King of Great Britain France and Ireland Defender of the 
Faith and soforth before the Honourable Richard Caswell Esquire one of the 
Judges and Justices of the Courts of Oyer and Terminer and General Gaol 
Delivery in the Province of North Carolina, by Letters patent of our said Lord 
the King, under the Great Seal of the said Province To the Honourable Martin 
Howard Esquire Chief Justice of the same Maurice Moore, and the said Richard 
Caswell, Esquires, or either of them, made and directed to inquire more fully 
the Truth by the Oaths of good and lawful Men of each and every County in the 
said Province, and by other Ways and Means by which the Truth of the Matter 
may be better known and inquired into of all Treasons Murders Homicides, 
Rebellions and Insurrections Riots and unlawful assemblings Rapes Burglaries 
Larcenies and all Felonies Contempts open Frauds and Deceits and all Crimes 
and Offences whether capital or not capital, and all Misdemeanors whatsoever 
perpetrated committed or done within any or either of the said Counties and 
the same for this Time to hear and determine after the due Form of Law.

The Jurors for our Lord the King upon their Oath present that Agnes Harrington 
late of Saint Bartholomew Parish in the County of Chatham Widow on the first 
Day of June in the thirteenth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George 
the third now King of Great Britain at the Parish aforesaid in the County 
aforesaid with Force and Arms, in and about her dwelling House and plantation 
whereon she now lives did harbour and maintain John Lawrance being an Idle 
loose and dissolute person of evil Character, and at sundry Times before and 
since the Time aforesaid did harbour and maintain in and about her dwelling 
House and plantation loose idle and dissolute persons of evil Character to the 
evil Example of others in like Case offending contrary to the Form of an Act 
of Assembly in such Case made and provided, and against the peace of our said 
Lord the King His Crown and Dignity.

ALEX MARTIN, Atto pro D. R.

The King vs Agnes Harrington. Indt Harbouring Loose &c persons.

Chatham Court of Oyer and Terminer &c., July 19th 1773. Evid. William Ashford, 
Rhd Kin.

Sworn and Sent. 
Rhd Kennon, C. C.
A True Bill.
Robt Rutherford, Foreman.

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