GH	Jonathan Vaughan & compy.	Command was given to the sheriffe of Somerset County that he
	@	should take Moses Speere Late of Somerset County Planter if he should
WH	Moses Speere	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 princess Ann Town
the third tuesday of June Anno Domini one thousand seven hundred & sixty three to answer unto Jona
-than Vaughan & company of a plea of trespass upon the case &^c. & the same day is given to the afs^d. Jonathan & comp^y: here &^c
Att which day here came the afs^d Jonathan Vaughan & comp^y: by George Hayward their Attorney & the
sheriffe to wit Ephraim Wilson now here returned that he had taken the afs^d Moses Speere whose
body here at this day he had ready to answer the afs^d Jonathan & comp^y: of the plea afs^d as to him it
was commanded &^c            And hereupon the afs^d: Jonathan & comp: complained against the afs^d
Moses Speere in the plea afs^d: in form following            Somerset fs^t Moses Speere Late of So
-merset County planter was attached to answer unto Jonathan Vaughan, David M^cCurtee, Pasifor
Frazor, John Chamberlain, Christopher Marshall and William Douglas in company of a plea of
trespass upon the case & So Forth            And Whereupon the said Jonathan, David, Passifor, John
Christopher and William in company by George Hayward their Attorney complain that whereas the
said Moses on the twenty sixth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred sixty &
Two at the county af^d was Indebted unto the said Jonathan and company in the sum of thirteen pounds
and three pence Current Money of Maryland for the articles and things in the account hereto An
-nexed mentioned and so thereof Indebted being the said Moses in consideration thereof afterwards to
wit the same day & year afs^d at the county af^d: upon himself assumed and to the said Jonathan,
David, Passifor, John, Christopher, and William, in company then and there faithfully promised that
he the said Moses the sum of money afs^d. when he should be thereto afterwards required unto
the said Jonathan, David, Passifor, John, Christopher, and William in company well and faith
-fully would pay & content Nevertheless the said Moses his promise and assumption afs^d: in form
afs^d: Made little regarding but minding and fraudulently Intending the said Jonathan, David,
Passifor, John, Christopher, and William in Company in this Particular Craftily & Subtilly to de
-ceive and defraud the sum of money unto the said Jonathan Vaughaun, David M^cCurtie, Pasifor
Frazor, John Chamberlain, Christopher Marshall, and William Douglas, in company hath not
paid or them for the same in any sort Contented (altho the same to do the same Moses afterwards
to wit the same day and year afs^d. and often since at the county afs^d by the said Jonathan Vaugh
-an David M^cCurtie, Pasifor Frazor, John Chamberlain, Christopher Marshall, and William
Douglas, in company was required) but the same to them to pay hitherto altogether hath refu
-sed and still doth refuse and unjustly deny whereupon the said Jonathan Vaughan, David M^c
-Curtie, Pasifor Frazor, John Chamberlain, Christopher Marshall and William Douglass in com
-pany say they are worse & have damage Damage to the Value of thirty pounds Current Money of
Maryland & thereof the bring Suit & So Forth    J Doe & R Roe pledges &^c

Moses