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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1723-1725
Volume 839, Page 163   View pdf image
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              March Court                        1723            163
John Handy Etuxor
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Thomas Crawley
 morandum the plft sued out his Lordships writt of attachm.t against the deft the

tenour whereof follows in these words viz.t Somersett County fs Charles absolute Lord
    and proprietary of the provinces of maryland and avalon Lord Baron of Baltemore &c to the Coroner of
    Somersett County Greeting we Command you that you attach any the goods and Chattells Rights or Creditts
    of Thomas Crawley of Vergenia if they shall be found in your Bailiwick to the value of 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 the same Before the Justices of Our County Court to be held at dividing
    Creek in Somersett County afd the third tuesday of march next then and there to be Condemned according
    to act of assembly to and for the use of a Certain John Handy and Jane his wife Exerx of the Last
    will and testament of John Winder dec.d unless the said Thomas Crawley by himself or his attorney
    shall appear and answer unto the said John Handy and Jane his wife Exrx as afd of a plea of trespass
    upon the Case &c according to Law and that by good & 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 Caus if
    any he she or they be and appear have why the same goods Chattells Rights or Creditts so attached
    in his her or their hands ought not to be Condemned and Execution thereof had and made according
    to the form of the act of assembly in such Case made and provided if to him her or them it shall
    seem mett and how you shall Execute this writt that you make Known unto our said Justices at
    the day & place afd and have you then & there this Writt Wittness Charles Ballard Gent Cheife Justice
    of Our said Court the 19.th day of December in the Eighth Year of Our Dominion &c ann Dom 1723
                                                                                  (G Dashiell)                                    Thomas Hayward Cler
    Att which said third tuesday of March to witt the seventeenth day of the same month ann Dom one
    thousand seven hundred & twenty three Being the day of the return of the said Writt Cometh the
    said John Handy and Jane his wife Exrx as afd by George Dashiell their attorney and the sherr of
    Somersett County to whom the foregoeing writt was directed  Likewise Cometh & maketh Return thereof
    to the Court here Endorst in these words following vizt   To the Worshipfull Justices within Mentioned
    I humbly Certifie that I have attached as the goods and Chattells of the within Named Thomas Crawley
    in the hands of Joseph MccClester that he be & appear at the time & place within
    Contained to shew Cause &c Before John Pitts and William Booth good & Lawfull men of my Bailywick
    so answers                                                                     Jno Purnell Cornll
                      Whereupon the afd Joseph MccClester Garnishe of the afd Thomas Crawley appears in his own
    proper person and says he Cannot gainsay but that he hath of the Rights and Creditts of the said Tho.s
    Crawley to the sum of one thousand pounds of tobacco nor but that the same Ought to be Condemned
    in his hands for the use of the said John Handy & Jane his wife Exrx as afd as of the Rights & Creditts
    of the said Thomas Crawley which the said plft does not gainsay
         Whereupon the said John Handy & Jane his wife Exrx as afd by their attorney afd prays that
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