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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1723-1725
Volume 839, Page 124b   View pdf image
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         November Court            1723        124
Thomas Drumond Etuxor
Ex.rs agt of Jn.o Griffith
               ag.t
Robert Pitt's Garnishee
 memorand.m the plft by his attorney sued Out his Lordship writt of attachm.t ag.t the

defend.t the tenour whereof followeth in these words viz.t
Somersett County fs.t    Charles absolute Lord and proprietary of the provinces of maryland
                                  and avalon Lord Baron of Baltemore &c   To the sher of Somersett County Greeting Wee Command
       you that you attach any the goods Chattells rights or Creditts of Robert Pitts of Coventry parish in the County afd
Cooper al.s dictus Robert Pitts in the County afd if they shall be found in your Bailywick to the value of two thousand
two hundred 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 the same Before the Justices of Our County Court to be held at Dividing Creek in Somersett County afd
the third tuesday of november next then and there to be Condemned according to act of assembly to and for the use of
a Certain Thomas Drummond and Mary his wife adm.x of John Griffith dec.d unless the said Robert Pitts by himselfe or
his attorney appear and answer unto the said Thomas Drummond and Mary his wife adm.x as afd in a plea that he render
unto them fifteen hundred pounds of tobacco which from them he unjustly detains &c according to ^Law^ act of assembly &
that by good and Lawfull men of your Bailywick you make Known unto the person or persons in whose hands
you make the same attachm.t that he she or they be and appear before the Justices of Our Said Court to be held
as afd to shew Cause if any he she or they have why the same goods Chattels rights or Creditts so attached in his her
or their hands Ought not to be Condemned and Execution thereof had & made according to act of assembly in
that Case made and provided if to him her or them it shall seem mete and how you shall Execute this writt that
you make Known unto Our Said Justices at the day and place afd and have you then & there this Writt Wittness
Charles Ballard Gentl Chief Justice of Our Said Court the 24.th day of august in the Eighth year of Our Dominion
&c Ann Dom 1723                                    (L Gale)                                                      Thomas Hayward Clk

      Att which said third tuesday of November to witt the Ninteenth day of November ^the^ same month ann Dom One
thousand seven hundred and twenty three being the day of the return of the said Writt Come the said Thomas
Drummond and Mary his wife ^adm.x as afd^ by Levin Gale their attorney and the sherr of Somersett County to whom the foregoeing
writt was directed Likewise Comes and makes return thereof to the Court here Endorst in these words following viz.t
                      To the worshipfull Justices within mentioned I humbly Certifie that by vertue of the within Writt to
me directed I have attached in the hands of Hugh Porter the sum of One hundred and sixty pounds of tobacco as the
Rights and Creditts of the within Named Thomas the said ^Robert Pitts^ and I further Certifie that I have Given Notice unto the said
Hugh Porter that he be & appear at the time & place within Contained to shew Cause &c Before Matt Hopkins and
John ^Doe^ good and Lawfull men of my Bailywick as by the within writt I am Commanded so answers
                                                                                                                            Jos: MccClester Sherr
       Whereupon the said Hugh Porter Garnishee as afd altho' solemnly Called to shew Cause why &c Comes not but
makes default nor does any other person appear for him to shew Cause to the Contrary &c
       Whereupon the said Thomas Drummond and Mary his wife adm.rx as afd by their attorney afd prays that the sume
of One hundred & sixty pounds of tobacco afd so as afd attached in the hands of the said Hugh Porter as of the rights
and Creditts of the said Robert Pitts may be Condemned in the hands of the said Hugh Porter towards satisfying
unto the said Thomas Drummond & Mary his wife adm.x as afd as well the sum of two thousand two hundred pds
of tobacco the debt afd as also all Costs accrueing upon the writt of attachm.t afd
                                                                                                                               Therefore it is Considered
                                                                                                                                                             (by)


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