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August Court 1762 160 Bailywick 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 Princes Ann Town the third Tuesday of June Anno Dom. one thousand Seven hundred and Sixty One to Answer unto Phillip Walker and John Cail of a plea that he Render them One hundred and Twenty Pounds Seventeen Shillings and Eight pence Curt Money of Maryland which to them he Owes and unjustly detains and So forth And the Same day is Given to the afd. John & Phillip here &c Att which day here Came the afd. John Cail & Phillip Walker by Wm. Hayward his Attorney and the Sheriff to witt John Dennis Gent now here Returned that he had taken the afd. William Nutter whose body here at this day he had Ready to Answer the afd. John and Phillip of the afd. plea as to him it was Commanded Whereupon the Said William Nutter at the prayer of the afd. John Cail and Phillip Walker is Adjudged to give Special bail to the Action afd. Thereupon a Certain William Addams of Somerset County Gent present here in Court in his proper person undertook for the Said William Nutter and Assumed upon himself that if it Should happen that Judgment in the plea afd. Should be Rendred for the Said John & Phillip Against the afd. William Nutter or that he the Said Nutter Should be therein Convict that then he the Said Nutter Should pay and Satisfie unto the afd. Cail and Walker the Judgment of the Court thereupon or Render his body in Execution of Such Judgment to the Prison of the Sheriff of the County afd. in Satisfaction thereof or that he the Said William Adams will do the Same for him &c Whereupon the Said Wm. Nutter puts in his place Littleton Dennis Gent Attorney at Law Against the afd. John Cail and Phillip Walker in the afd. plea And thereupon at the prayer of the parties afd. 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 afd. &c Att which day here Came the parties afd. by their Attorneys afd. And hereupon the Said Cail and Walker Declared Against the afd. Wm. Nutter in the plea afd. in form following Somerset fst William Nutter Late of Somerset County Planter Otherwise Called I William Nutter of Somerset County in the Province of Maryland Planter was Summoned to Answer unto John Cail and Philip Walker of A plea that he Render them One hundred and Twenty Pounds Seventeen Shillings & Eight pence Curt Money of Maryland which to them he Owes and Unjustly detains and So forth And Whereupon the Said John and Philip by William Hayward their Attorney Say that whereas the Said William Nutter on the Seventh day of May in the Year of our Lord One thousand Seven hundred and Sixty at the County afd. by his Certain Writing Obligatory which with the Seal of the Said William Nutter Sealed the Said John and Phillip here into Court bring the date whereof is the Same day And Year had Acknowledged himself to be held and firmly bound to one Hall Caile now decd (whom the Said John and Phillip Survived) And the Said John and Phillip in the Sum of One hundred and Twenty pounds Seventeen Shillings and Eight pence Curt Money to be paid to them the Said Hall John and Philip when he the Said William Nutter Should be thereot afterwards Required Nevertheless the afd. William Nutter (tho often Required) hath not paid the afd. One hundred and Twenty Pounds Seventeen Shillings and Eight pence Curt Money to the Said Hall John and Phillip or Any of them in the Lifetime of the Said Hall or to the John and Phillip or Either of them Since the death of the Said Hall (whom the Said John and Phillip Survived) but hath Refused to pay the Same and doth Still Refuse to pay the Same to Said John and Philip Whereupon they Say they are Injured and have Damage to the Value of One hundred and Twenty Pounds Seventeen Shillings and Eight pence Curt Money of Maryland and thereupon they bring Suit and So forth Pledges &c J: Doe & R: Roe And the afd. Wm. Nutter by his Atty Comes and defends the force and Injury when &c. And prays Leave thereof to Imparle here untill next Court to be held at Princes Ann Town the third Tuesday of November then next following and he hath it and the Same day is Given to the afd. John & Phillip here &c Att which day here Came as well the afd. John Cail and Phillip Walker as the afd. William Nutter by their Attorneys afd. And hereupon the Said William prays further Leave thereof to Imparle here |
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