Henrico County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Court.....Worsham, Et Al 1677
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Source: Virginia Legislature Records
Written: 1677
Recorded: 1678

"To the Rt Worll Court of Henrico county.
John Worsham humbly showeth.
That whereas yr Worships hath beene pleased to impose and appoint your 
petitionor [sic] one of the Grand Jury of this County of Henrico he doth for the 
discharge of his said place, and the oath by him taken, humbly present these 
persons whose names are under written and the offences or misdemeanors by them 
committed. 
The 3rd Day of February, it being the Sabbath, John Royall was at cards, by his 
own confession.
February ye 8th 1677, I see John Bowman drunke. Ditto Feb Mr Henry Lonne was 
drunke in my sight. February ye 10 1677 I see John Edwards & one of Mr Ishams 
servants at chequers on ye Sabbath day. Ffebruary [sic] ye 13 1677 Mr Martin 
Elam was by his own confession drunke. Mar ye 20 My ffather [sic] Epes told me 
that John Milnor was drunke and alsoe Mr Thomas Chamberlaine and Mr Rullington 
was fighting which may appear at ye court by my father. Some tyme in March Jno 
Stuart by his owne confesseth was drunke 3 days together. April ye 9th 1678 -- I 
see old Humphries drunke. Aprill ye 11th 1678 -- my ffather and Mr Thomas 
Chamberlaine were fighting & Mr Chamberlaine made a breach of the law, as it may 
appeare by evidence. Charles Featherstone by his own confession has been drunke 
since he has been in ye Jury and at ye same tyme swore several Oathes in my 
hearing.
April ye 21st Henry Martin swore several oathes, it being on the Sabbath day. 
April ye 22nd I see John Bowman drunke. April ye 30th I see John Willson Sr 
drunke. May ye 5th 1678 I see Charles Featherstone and Edward Stratton Junior 
fighting and were much in drinke it being on the Sabbath daye at night. May ye 
13 & 14 I see Edmund Belcher drunke. May ye 25th 78 I see Martin Elam and John 
Clyburn fighting. Mary Sparlowe by her own confession has not beene in church 
above three tymes within this twelve months. Some time since Christmas I see 
John Bowman drunke on the Sabbath daye and to the best of my knowledge Mr George 
Browning has not been at church three tymes since wee [sic] were in this place. 
And I think Mr Pleasants and his wife comes not to church and likewise Mr 
William Hatcher.

Recorded per Wm Randolph Clerk Court."

Additional Comments:
Worsham, Elam, Pleasants, Pleasant, Hatcher, Clyburn, Sparlowe, Sparlow, Belcher, 
Bowman, Browning, Royall, Royal, Lonne, Edwards, Isham, Milnor, Chamberlaine, 
Rullington, Humphries, Featherstone, Willson, Wilson, Stratton

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