LD	Samuel Atkinson
	@	Command was given unto the sheriff of somerset county that he should take John Evans Late of Worcester
WH	John Evans	County planter otherwise called John Evans Carpander of somerset county if he should be found in his Baily

wick and him should safe keep so that he might have his body before the Justices of his Lordships County court of somerset to be held
at princess Ann Town the third Tuesday of June Anno Dom. one thousand seven hundred and Sixty one to answer unto Samuel Atkinson
of a plea that he render him Twenty five pounds Cur^t Money of Maryland which To him he owes and unjustly detains and so forth
and the same Day is given to the af^d. Isaac Here &^c
      Att which day here came the af^d. Isaac Atkinson by Littleton Dennis his Attorney and the sheriff to witt John
Dennis Gen^t now here returned that he had taken the af^d. John Evans whose body here at this day he had ready to answer the af^d.
Samuel Atkinson of the af^d. Plea as to him it was commanded
      Whereupon the said John Evans at the prayer of the af^d. Samuel Atkinson is adjudged to give special Bail to the action af^d.
      Thereupon a certain                                present here in court in his proper person undertook for the said John
Evans and assumed upon himself that if it should happen that Judgement in the plea af^d. should be rendred for the said Samuel
Atkinson against the af^d. John Evans or that the af^d. John should be therein convict that then he the said John should pay
and satisfy unto the af^d. Samuel the Judgement of the court thereupon or Render his body in Execution of such Judgement
to the prison of the sheriff of somerset county in satisfaction thereof or that he the said                      will do the same for him &^c
      Whereupon the said John Evans puts in his Place William Hayward Gen^t Attorney at Law against the af^d.
Samuel Atkinson of the af^d. plea
      And thereupon at the prayer of the parties af^d. Day is to them now here given untill next court to be held at princess
Ann Town the third tuesday of August then next following in the state that now saveing to the parties af^d.
      Att which day here came the parties af^d. by their Attorneys af^d. and hereupon the said Samuel Atkinson complain
ed against the af^d. John Evans in the plea af^d. in form following
Somerset fs^t John Evans Late of somerset county planter Otherwise called I John Evans Carpender of Somerset County was Summoned to answer
unto Samuel atkinson of a plea that he render him twenty five pounds current Money of Maryland which to him he owes and unjustly detains
And Whereupon the said Samuel by Littⁿ Dennis his Att^y says that whereas the said John the xxviii Day of February Anno Dom.
MDCCLX at the county af^d. by his certain writing obligatory which the said Samuel Sealed with the seal of the said John here in Court shews
whose date is the day and year af^d. did acknowledge himself to be held and firmly Bound unto the said Samuel in the said sum of twenty five
pounds current Money to be paid unto the said Samuel when he the said John should be thereto afterwards Required Nevertheless the said
John altho often required the af^d. sum of Money unto the said Samuel he hath not rendered but the same to him to Render hath denyed & still
doth deny and unjustly detain to the Damage of the said Samuel thirty pounds Current money & thereof he brings Suit &^c       J Doe    pledges of pros^g
                                                                                                                                                                                R. Roe
And the af^d. John Evans by his Attorney af^d. comes and Defends the force and injury when &^c and saith that he cannot deny the action af^d. of the af^d. Samu-
el Atkinson nor but that the writing Obligatory af^d. is the Deed of him the said John Evans nor but that he owes the af^d. Samuel Atkinson
the af^d. twenty five pounds in manner and form as the af^d. Samuel Atkinson above against him hath declared
   Therefore it is considered that the af^d. Samuel Atkinson Recover against the af^d. John Evans his Debt af^d. and his Damages by occasion of the
[illegible] 1/2    detention of that same Debt to                            Pounds of Tobacco to the same Samuel of his assent by the court here adjudged & the af^d. John
in Mercy &^c