WH	James Hitch
	@	Command was given to the Sheriff of Somerset County that he Should take
LD	Ann Records	Ann Records Late of Somerset County Spinster if he Should be found in his bailywick and

him Should Safe keep so that he might have her body before the Justices of his Lordships County Court of Somerset
to be held at Princes Ann Town the third Tuesday of June Anno Dom. One thousand Seven hundred and Sixty
One to Answer unto James Hitch of A plea of Covenant broken and So forth    And the Same day is Given to the
af^d. James here &^c    Att which day here Came the af^d. James Hitch by his Attorney af^d. And the Sheriff to witt
John Dennis Gen^t now here Returned that he had taken the af^d. Ann Records whose body here at this
day he had Ready to Answer the af^d. James Hitch of the af^d. plea as to him it was Commanded
           Whereupon the Said Ann Records At the prayer of the af^d. James Hitch is Adjudged to Give
Special Bail to the Action af^d.    Thereupon a Certain Richard Waller and John Carmichael of Somerset
County Planter Present here in Court in their Proper Persons undertook and Each of them undertook for the
Said Ann Records that if it Should happen that Judgment in the plea af^d. Should be Rendred for the
Said James Hitch Against the af^d. Ann Records or that she the Said Ann Records Should be therein
Convict that then She the Said Ann Should pay and Satisfie unto the af^d. James Hitch the Judgment
of the Court thereupon or Render her body in Execution of Such Judgment to the Prison of the Sheriff of
the County thereupon or Render her body in Execution of Such Judgment to the Prison of the Sheriff of
the County af^d. in Satisfaction thereof or that they the Said Richard Waller and John Carmichael
will and Each of them will do the Same for her &^c
      Whereupon the Said Ann Records puts in her place Littleton Dennis Gen^t Attorney at Law Against the af^d.
James Hitch of the af^d. plea
   Whereupon the Said At the prayer of the parties af^d. day is to them now here Given untill next Court to be held
at Princes Ann Town the third Tuesday of August then next following in the State that now Saveing to the parties
af^d. &^c.       Att which day here Came the Parties af^d. by their Attorneys af^d. And hereupon the Said James
Hitch Complained of the af^d. Ann Records in the plea af^d. in form following
Somerset fs^t Ann Records Late of Somerset County Spinster was Summoned to Answer unto James Hitch of
a plea of Covenant broken and So forth       And Whereupon the Same James by W^m. Hayward his Attorney
Says that whereas the Said Ann on the Ninth day of September in the Year of our Lord One thousand Seven
hundred and Sixty at Somerset County af^d. by his Certain Writing Sealed with her Seal and here in Court
Produced bearing date the Same day and Year did Covenant and Oblige herself to pay or Cause to be paid unto
the Said James Hitch his heirs Ex^rs. Adm^rs. or Assigns the full and Just Sum of Seventy five pounds Cur^t Money
of Maryland at or upon the first day of March Next Ensuing the date of the Same Writing with Legall

Interest