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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1723-1725
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       August Court           1723                   103
this province and Costs of Suite against him which the said plft doth not Gainsay &c
             Therefore it is Considered by the Justices here the twentieth day of August ann Dom One thousand seven
hundred and twenty three that the said Joseph Gray recover against the said Nathaniel Horsey as well the sume of
six pounds Current Money of this province Certain damages afd in form afd Confessed as also the sum of
(245) Two hundred & forty five                                          pounds of tobacco by the Court here adjudged unto him for
his Costs and Charges by him about his suite in this Behalfe Laid Out and Expended and ye Deft in Mercy &c


F:Al  John Scott
                agt
        John Taylor Jun.r
 Command was Given to the Sherr of Somersett County that he should take John Taylor Jun of Coventry
Parish in the County of Somersett Planter al.s dict John Taylor Jun of the County of Somersett in the
Province of Maryland if he should be found in his Bailiwick and him should Safe Keep so that he might
                have his Body Before the Justices of his Lordships County Court of Somersett to be held at Dividing Creek the third tuesday
of august then next to answer unto John Scott of a plea that he render unto him twenty six pounds six shillings &
Eight pence Curr.t money of maryland which to him he Owes and unjustly detains &c and that thereof he should not faile &c
          And the said John Scott by Francis Allen his attorney declares against the said John Taylor in the plea afd as followeth
vizt      Somersett County fst John Taylor Jun.r of Coventry Parish in the County of Somersett planter al.s dict John Taylor Jun.r of
the County of Somersett in the province of maryland was sumoned to answer unto John Scott of a plea that he render unto
him twenty six pounds six shillings and Eight pence Curr.t money of Maryland which to him he ows and from him he
unjustly detains &c   And whereupon the said John Scott by Francis Allen his attorney saith that whereas the said John Taylor
the twenty seventh day of January ann Dom One thousand seven hundred and Ninteen twenty at the Parish and County
afd within the Jurisdiction of this Court by his Certain Writeing Obligatory which the said John Scott with the seall of the said
John Taylor signed here into Court Brings the date whereof is the same day and year did acknowledge himselfe to be
Bound unto the afd John Scott in the afd twenty six pounds six shillings and Eight pence Curr.t money of maryland
to be paid unto the Said John Scott when he should be thereunto required yett the said John Taylor then Often required
the said twenty six pounds six shillings and Eight pence to the said John Scott hath not rendered but the same to him
hitherto to render hath damaged and still doth deny and unjustly detaine whereupon the said John Scott saith his is worse
and hath damage to the value of tenn pounds Money afd and thereupon he Brings Suite &c    P Allen P Qrte Pledgs def Jno Do R Ro
    Att which said third tuesday of august to witt the twentieth day of the same month ann Dom One thousand seven hundred
and twenty three Being the day of the return of the said Writt Cometh the Said John Scott by his attorney afd and the Sherr
of Somersett County to whom the foregoeing Writt was directed Likewise Cometh and maketh return thereof to the Court here
Endorst in these words following vizt      Cepi Corpus P me Joseph MccClester Sherr
    Whereupon the Said John Taylor in his Own proper person Cometh and defendeth the force and Injury when &c and
Sayth that he Cannot Gainsay the plft his action afd against him Brought nor Can he Say But that the Bill writing Obligatory
afd is his act and deed and that the debt therein Mentioned is yett due and unsatisfied wherefore the Said plft
prays Judgm.t for his debt afd and his Costs and damages Sustained by Occasioned of the detaining the same debt to him to
be adjudged &c    therefore it is Considered by the Justices here the twentieth day of august ann Dom One thousand
seven hundred and twenty three that the said John Scott recover against the said John Taylor as well the sume
of twenty six pounds six shillings and Eight pence Curr.t money of Maryland his debt afd as also the sume of
(362)    Three hundred & sixty Two        pounds of tob.o by the Court here adjudged unto him for his Costs and Damages
sustained by Occasion of the detaineing the same debt to him to be adjudged &c & the deft in Mercy &c


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