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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1723-1725
Volume 839, Page 223b   View pdf image
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          August Court                    1724                223
Richard Holland
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Thomas Browns Gar.n
 memorandum the plft by Francis allen his attorney sued out his Lordships writt of attachmt
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 sher of Somersett County Greeting Wee Command you that
you Attach any the goods Chattells Rights or Creditts of Thomas Brown of alhollows Parish in the County
of Somersett Planter if they shall be found in your Bailywick 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 the
third tuesday of August next then and there to be Condemned according to act of assembly to and for the use
of a Certain Richard Holland unless the said Thomas Brown by himselfe or his attorney appear and answer
unto the said Richard Holland in a plea of trespass upon the Case &c according to Law & 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 County Court to be held
as afd to shew Cause if any he she or they have why the same goods Chattells Rights or Creditts so attached
in his her or their hands ought not to be Condemned & Execution thereof had and made according to act
of assembly in that Case made and provided if to him her or them it shall seem meet and how you shall
Execute this Writt that you make Known unto our ^Justices^ of Our Said Court the 21.st day of June in the Ninth
Year of our Dominion &c ann Dom 1724      (F Allen)                                                Thomas Hayward Cler

Att which said third tuesday of August to witt Eighteenth day of the same month ann Dom One thousand seven
hundred & twenty four being ye Day of the return of the said Writt Cometh the said Richard Holland by his
attorney afd and the sher of Somersett County to whom the foregoeing writt was directed Likewise Cometh &
make the 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 in the hands of John Tull the sum of one
thousand pounds ^of tobo^ and in the hands of Joseph Brittingham the sum of one thousand pounds of tobacco as
the Rights and Creditts of the within Named Thomas Brown and I further Certifie that I have given Notice
unto the said John Tull and Joseph Brittingham that they be & appear at the time & place within Contained
to shew Cause &c before Mathew Hopkins and Jno Doe good & Lawfull men of my Bailywick on the
Eleventh day of August one thousand seven hundred & twenty four as by the within Writt I am Commanded
so answers                                                                        Jos: MccClester Sherr
                   Whereupon the Afd Joseph Brittingham Garnishee of the afd Thomas Brown in his own
proper person appears and says that he Cannot gainsay but that he has of the Rights and creditts of the said
Thomas Brown in his hands to the value of two thousand pence nor but that the same ought to be Condemned
in his hands for the use of the Said Richard Holland as of the rights and Creditts of the said Thomas
Brown which ye said plft does not gainsay
                                                                      Whereupon the said Richard Holland by his attorney
afd prays that the sum of Nine hundred and Eighteen pen^ce^ part of the sum so as afd Confessed by ye
                                                                                                                                                 (afd)


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