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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1760-1763
Volume 543, Page 244   View pdf image
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June Court       1763    244
this 5th day of Janry Anno Dom. 1763              Th Jones {Seal}
To the Clark of Somerset County              By Virtue of the above warrant & account
proved was Issued the following Attachment            Somerset fst Frederick absolute Lord &
proprietary of the provinces of Maryland and Avalon Lord Baron of Baltimore &c to the
sheriffe of Somerset County greeting we command you that you attach any the goods Chat-
-tels and credits of Benjamin Burridge Late of Somerset County Gentleman if they
shall be found in your Bailywick to the Value of fifty one pounds Eighteen shillings
and three pence half penny Current Money of Maryland and one thousand pounds of
Tobacco and when you have the same Attached or any part thereof the same in your custody
Safe keep so that you have ye. Same before our Justices of our County Court of Somerset
To be held at princess Ann Town the third tuesday of March next then and there to be con-
-demned according to act of assembly to and for the use of a certain Levin Ballard unless
the said Benjn Burridge by himself or his Attorney shall appear and answer unto
the said Levin Ballard in a plea of trespass upon the Case &c according to Law and that
by Good and lawfull men of your bailywick you make known unto the person or
persons in whose hands you make the same Attachment that he she or they be and
appear before our Justices of our County Court of Somerset to be held as afsd to shew Cause
if any he she or they have why the same Goods Chattels and credits so attached in his her or
their hands ought not to be condemned and Execution thereof had and made according to
act of assembly in such case made and provided if to him her or them is shall seem meet
and how you shall Execute this writt that you make known unto our said Justices at
the day and place afsd and have you then & there this writt witness Sampson Wheatley
Esqr one of our Justices of our said Court the 20th day of November in the 12th year of our Dominion
&c Anno Domini 1762
Att which day here came the afsd Levin Ballard by Samuel Wilson his Attorney and the
sheriffe to wit Ephraim Wilson now here returned the foregoing writt of Attachment Endor-
-sed in manner following (with a schedule thereto annexed)
By Virtue of the within Attachment To me directed I do humbly certify the Justices
within named that that by Virtue of the within writt to me directed I have attached of
the goods and chattels of the within Benjamin Burridge the sundry Articles in the
schedule hereto annexed amounting to the Value of the sum of thirty six pounds two shil
-lings & four pence towards satisfying the said Levin Ballard his debt within mentio-
-ned which said Goods and Chattels I have ready for the Condemnation or further order of
the said Justices at the Time within directed as within I am commanded and no other
Goods are found in my Bailywick to satisfy the plf. of the residue of his debt . . . . So answers
A Schedule of the goods and Chattles of Ben Burridge Attached       Eph: Wilson, sheriffe
the 6th Day of January Anno Dom. 1763 for Mr Levin Ballard towards satisfying as well a Debt
of Fifty one pound Eighteen shilings Current Money as one thousand pounds of Tobacco &c

&NBSP;&NBSP; £  S  D &NBSP;&NBSP;    Brought up &NBSP;&NBSP; £  S  D
1 Brown Stone Water Jugg 2/ 1 Iron Spitt 4/7 &NBSP;&NBSP; 0..6..7 &NBSP;&NBSP; 12lb Coffee 14/ 2 brass Candlesicks 6/ 2 Iron Do 1/8 &NBSP;&NBSP; 1..1..8
1 Box Iron & Heters 7/6 1 pr Bellows 6/ &NBSP;&NBSP; 0..13..6 &NBSP;&NBSP; 1 Barl. wth 16lb Shugar & Cloth 15/10 3 peices
1 Shovel & Tongs 5/ 1 Tea Kettle    10/ &NBSP;&NBSP; 0..15..0 &NBSP;&NBSP; Tin Ware 2/ &NBSP;&NBSP; 0..17..10
1 Iron Pott 6/8 1 Candle Box 2/ &NBSP;&NBSP; 0..8..8 &NBSP;&NBSP; 1 Baster 1/ 2 pr Snuffers & 1 Extinguisher 1/6 &NBSP;&NBSP; 0..2..6
1 Tea Chest with Canesters 10/ 1 Stone Jugg 1/6 &NBSP;&NBSP; 0..11..6 &NBSP;&NBSP; 1 Cart with Wheels & Boxes 31/ 1 WheelBarrow 6/ &NBSP;&NBSP; 1..17..0
1 Coffee Pot 10/ 1 Coper Sarspan 5/ &NBSP;&NBSP; 0..15..0 &NBSP;&NBSP; 415lb Pork £5..12 1 Meat Hhd & Meal Tubb 7/6 &NBSP;&NBSP; 5..19..6
1 Brass Morter & pestle 6/ in Coffee Mill 7/6 &NBSP;&NBSP; 0..13..6 &NBSP;&NBSP; 1 Sarch 2/ 1 pr Fellers Iron 5/ &NBSP;&NBSP; 0..7..0
1 Iron Skellet & Tin Sarspan 2/6 1 Tame buck Fawn &NBSP;&NBSP; 0..12..6 &NBSP;&NBSP; 3 punch Bowls & 1 Strainer 4/6 2 Chamber Potts 3/ &NBSP;&NBSP; 0..7..6
1 Iron Chaffen Dish 3/ one Grid Iron and Chafin Dish 2/6 &NBSP;&NBSP; 0..5..6 &NBSP;&NBSP; 5 Large & 5 Sml stone plates 5/ 3 Tea potts 4/ &NBSP;&NBSP; 0..9..0
a percell of knives & forks 7/6 2 dish Covers 4/ &NBSP;&NBSP; 0..11..6 &NBSP;&NBSP; 2 Mustard Potts 1 Butter Dish 2 small bowls 1 Qt Mugg &NBSP;&NBSP; 0..2..2
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