This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Whitlock, Shields Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3AC.2ACE/1469 Message Board Post: p. 466 May Court 1815 William Whitlock appeared in court in discharge of a recongizounce entered into at the information of Susan Shields, who charged the sd Whitlock with being the father of her bastard children Espa & Sally and thereafter on hearing the said Susan on oath & the parties by counsel it is considered by this court that the sd William Whitlock pay annually to the overseers of the poor of this county the sum of 10 lbs toward the support of the sd children that is to say 5 lbs for each of them until they respectively arrive at the age of seven years. p. 475 June Court 1815 Josiah Shields fined for striking William Whitlock on 21 May 1815.