Court records from 17th-century Kent County, Maryland, arranged by theme.

Transcribed and compiled by Dr. Alexa Cawley, Ph.D.

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Orphan Name			Orphan Sex			Date Orphaned	1671
Orphan's Father			Orphan's Mother			Source	LIV 315
Estate Left
Care of Estate	"In an action of the case the eft not performing Couenat this Cort doth order tht present deliuery be made of the Child unto the plt"
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Orphan Name			Orphan Sex			Date Orphaned
Orphan's Father			Orphan's Mother			Source	LIV 308
Estate Left
Care of Estate	Court agreed that the should keep an Orphan for one thousand pounds of tobacco per annum
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Orphan Name	Cox	Elizabeth	Orphan Sex	female		Date Orphaned
Orphan's Father	William Cox		Orphan's Mother	Francis		Source	LIV 99
Estate Left	1000 acre plantation, indenture for 5 yrs for Penelope Prince who ran away; cow, salt, meal, pewter, 2 men servants, note from Capt Claybourne for 4 lbs sterling, bill of sale from Claiborne for 5 cows and calves; 14 milk cows, heffers and cow (25 female)
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Orphan Name	Crouch	George	Orphan Sex	male		Date Orphaned
Orphan's Father	George Crouch		Orphan's Mother			Source	LIV 137: Liber B folio 40
Estate Left	all the Childes cattle
Care of Estate	all the cattle to remain with Pickard, Pickard to keep half of the male increase from this time as payment for care"& & putinge him to scoole & Furnishing the Childe wth other Nescessaries spe longe till Just occation be mayd Appeare as Law povides"
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Others Involved	Mary Baxter petitioned with Nicholas Pickard for care of the child, is she Pickard's sister or wife?

Orphan Name	Hanson	Hance	Orphan Sex	male		Date Orphaned	father died 1655
Orphan's Father	Andrew Hanson		Orphan's Mother	Annacake Hanson		Source	LIV 28-29
Estate Left	Hance Hanson apprenticed to Weekes because Andrew Hanson's widow, Annacake, had 4 children and was pregnant with 5th when he died; apprenticed until 21 years of age, dated 9/17/1655, "fatherly care"
Care of Estate	Terms: "tacke care and puide for him all such thinges as shall bee any waues Conuenient and nessessaries for his maintenance and breedinge" Education: reading in English tongue, writing in legible hand,casting accounts in 4 rules of Arithmetic
Witnesses	Thomas Hill, Isaac Ilive, John Salter
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Orphan Name	Pickard	William, John, Sarah and ??	Orphan Sex			Date Orphaned
Orphan's Father	Nicholas Pickard		Orphan's Mother	Ellenor Pickard		Source	LIV 314
Estate Left
Care of Estate	Wright complained to the Court that Samuel King is embezzling and making away with the estate of the orphan's of Pickard, court orders Wright to take it into his possession to keep it in order; King ordered to next court
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Others Involved	Ellenor Pickard married Samuel King after Nicholas' death

Orphan Name	Salter	boy	Orphan Sex	male		Date Orphaned
Orphan's Father			Orphan's Mother			Source	LIV 10
Estate Left
Care of Estate
Witnesses	Thomas Pett said "a little after Will'm Jones came from the Susquehanahs, deponent did hear the said Jones say, that he did see Andrew the Sanyeard (Spaniard), and he asked for the boy Salter, and he said, that if he had him there, he would clothe hiM"
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Orphan Name	Short	Tabitha	Orphan Sex	female		Date Orphaned
Orphan's Father	Robert Short		Orphan's Mother			Source	LIV 84, 92
Estate Left	11/1/1656: Morgan brings acct of cattle to court; account of female cattle in estate taken 9/15/1656; 4/52 received 1 cow & 1 heifer belonging to estate of T Short 1 old cow over 2 yrs, 1 young cow, 1 heifer lost her calf this year, still have 9 female
Care of Estate	"haue Power to Call any prson to Account And to Take what belongs to her into his possetion for her vsse: which The Court hath Thought fit And necessary And Doth order And giue full power vnto The sd mr Morgon To Act Any Thing lawfully in her behalfe"
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