WH	Gale & Ponsonby
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	Thos. Newbold	Command was given to the Sheriff of Somerset County that he Should Take Thomas Newbold
App in	Custody	Late of Somerset County Planter 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 August Anno Dom. one thousand Seven hundred and Sixty to Answer unto John Gale
and John Ponsonby of A plea of trespass upon the case &^c. And the Same day is given to the af^d. John Gale & John Ponsonby
here &^c.       Att which day here Came the af^d. Gale and Ponsonby by William Hayward his Attorney and the Sheriffe
to witt John Dennis Gent. now here Returned that he had taken the af^d. Thomas Newbold whose body here at this day
he had Ready to Answer the af^d. Gale and Ponsonby of the af^d. plea as to him it was Commanded
           Whereupon the Said Thomas Newbold present here in Court in his proper person at the prayer of the af^d.
Gale and Ponsonby is Adjudged to give Special Bail to the Action af^d. but for Want thereof the Said Thomas is
Committed to the prison of the Sheriff of the County af^d. there to Remain &^c.
           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 November then next following in the State that now Saveing to
                                                                                                                by their Attorney af^d.
the parties af^d.    Att which day here Came as well the af^d. Gale and Ponsonby ^ as the af^d. Thomas Newbold in
Custody as af^d. And hereupon the Said Gale and Ponsonby Complained of the af^d. Thomas Newbold in the plea af^d.
in form following       Somerset fs^t Thomas Newbold Late of Somerset County Planter was Attached to Answer unto
John Gale and John Ponsonby of A plea of trespass upon the Case and So forth
        And Whereupon the Said Gale and Ponsonby by William Hayward their Attorney Complain that
whereas the Said Thomas the xxv day of February Anno Dom. MDCCIX at Somerset County af^d. was Indebted
unto the Said Gale and Ponsonby in the Sum of Eight pounds fourteen Shillings and Nine pence farthing Cur^t Money
of Maryland for the Sundry Articles and things in the Account hereto Annexed mentioned and So thereof Indebted
being the Said Thomas in Consideration thereof afterwards to wit the Same day and Year af^d. at the County af^d. upon
himself Assumed and to the Said Gale and Ponsonby then and there faithfully Promised that he the Said Thomas
the Sum of Money af^d. when he Should be thereto afterwards Required unto the Said Gale and Ponsonby well and
faithfully would pay and Content Nevertheless the Said Thomas his promise and Assumption af^d. in form af^d.
made Little Regarding but minding and fraudulently Intending the Said Gale and Ponsonby in that part
Craftily and Subtilly to deceive and defraud the Sum of Money af^d. unto the Said Gale and Ponsonby hath not paid
or them for the Same in Any Sort Contented (Altho the Same to do the Same Thmas afterwards to witt the Same day
And Year af^d. and often Since at the County af^d. by the Said Gale and Ponsonby was Required but the Same to them
to pay hitherto altogether hath Refused and Still doth Refuse and unjustly Detain Whereupon the Said Gale and
Ponsonby Say they are worse and have Damage to the Value of thirty pounds Cur^t Money of Maryland and thereof they
Bring Suit and So forth                                                                             Pledges &^c. J: Doe & R: Roe