WH LD	Ezekiell Mathis
	@	Command was given to the Sheriff of Somerset County that he Should Take Elijah Wood
SW	Elijah Wood	Late of Somerset County Planter Otherwise Called Elijah Wood of Somerset County in the province

of Maryland if he Should be found in his 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 November Anno Dom. one thousand Seven hundred and Sixty to Answer unto Ezekiell Mathis of A plea
that he Render unto him the Sum of Seventy Eight 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. Ezekiell here &^c
           Att which day here Came the af^d. Ezekiell Mathis by Littleton Dennis his Attorney and the Sheriff
to witt John Dennis Gen^t now here Returned that he had taken the af^d. Elijah Wood whose body here at this day
he had Ready to Answer the af^d. Ezekiell Mathis of the af^d. plea as to him it was Commanded
             Whereupon the Said Elijah Wood at the prayer of the af^d. Ezekiell Mathis is Adjudged to give
Special Bail to the Action af^d.    Thereupon a Certain Benjamin Benston of Somerset County Planter present
here in Court in his Proper Person undertook for the Said Ezekiell Mathis and Assumed upon himself that if it
Should happen that Judgment in the plea af^d. Should be Rendred for the Said Ezekiell Mathis Against the af^d.
Elijah Wood or that he the Said Elijah Wood Should be therein Convict that then he the Said Elijah Wood
Would pay and Satisfie unto the af^d. Ezekiell Mathis the Judgment of the Court thereupon or Render his body in
Execution of Such Judgment to the prison of the Sheriff of the County af^d. in Satisfaction thereof or that he the Said
Benjⁿ. Benston will do the Same for him &^c
           Whereupon the Said Elijah Wood puts in his place Sam^l. Wilson Gen^t Attorney at Law
Against the af^d. Ezekiell Mathis 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 Princes Ann Town the third Tuesday of March 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 Ezekiell declared Against the af^d. Elijah in the plea af^d. in form following
Somerset fs^t Elijah Wood Late of Somerset County Planter Otherwise Called Elijah Wood of Somerset County in
the Province of Maryland was Summoned to Answer unto Ezekiell Mathis of A plea that he Render him Seventy
Eight Pounds Cur^t Money which to him he Owes and Unjustly detains &^c
           And Whereupon the Said Ezekiell by Littleton Dennis his Att^y Says that Whereas the Said
Elijah the xxi day of August Anno Dom. MDCCLIX at the County af^d. by his Certain Writing Obligatory

which