Hello Allan! Can you please translate for me? Yes.....yes I know what the accusation means, but would this have been for adultery? Rape? Also what is a "Husbandman" ? And what is "bound over by way of Recognizance" ? Which Benjamin would this have been? From which family? thanks, Carolyn Whitney Branagan ALLAGREEN@aol.com wrote: > WRG: This came through the Worcester County List. > > A friend of mine copied out of the above books the fornication suits and > a couple of other things relative to Worcester County. > > Collections of the Worcester Society of Antiquity Vol. 5 > Published by the Society, 1883 > > 1731-2 - February term > > Benjamin Whitney of Lancaster, Husbandman being bound over by way of > Recognizance to this Court by Mr. Justice Wilder to answer for his being > Guilty of the Sin of Fornication, appeared in Court & Pleaded Guilty > whereupon the Court ordered that he pay as a fine the Sum of Twenty > Shillings & Cost 2/6 which he paid Down in Court and his Recognizance was > Cancelled.