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March Court
1724
274 month ann Dom One thousand seven hundred and twenty four being the day of the Return of the afd Writt Cometh the Said Edmond Hough by his attorney afd and the Sherr of Somersett County afd to whom the foregoeing writt was directed Likewise Cometh & maketh Return thereof to the Court here Endorsed in these words following viz.t Cepi Corpus p Jos: MccClester Sherr Whereupon the said John Hammon being Called appears and thereupon the said John Hammon at the prayer of the plfts attorney afd is adjudged to give Speciall Bayle to the Action afd thereupon a Certain Thomas Pointer son of William Pointer of Somersett County planter present here in Court undertakes for the Said John Hammon that if in Case the Said Edmond Hough shall Recover Judgm.t in the plea afd against the said John Hammon or that the said John Hammon shall be therein Convict that then he the said John Hammon shall pay the Condemnation of the Court thereupon or Render his Body to the Custody of the Sherr of Somersett County in Satisfaction thereof or that he ^the said Thomas Pointer^ will do it for him And the said John Hammon in his Own proper person Cometh and defendeth the force and Injury when &c and saith that he Cannot gainsay the plft his action afd so as afd against him brought nor Can he say but that the Said plft ought to recover his damages by Occasion of the premisses afd to three hundred & twenty pounds of porke & Eighteen shillings & Nine pence Curr.t Money and Cost of Suite against him which the said plft doth not gainsay Therefore it is Considered by the Justices here the sixteenth day of March Ann Dom One thousand Seven hundred & twenty four afd that the said Edmond Hough Recover against the said John Hammon as well the sum of three hundred and twenty pounds of good sound Merchantable Pork & Eighteen shillings and Nine Pence Curr.t money his damages by occasion of the premisses afd in form afd Confessed as also the sume of three (333) hundred & Thirty three pounds of tobacco by the Court here adjudged unto him 333 for his Costs and Charges by the Court here by him about ^his^ Suite in this behalfe Laid Out & Expended and the Said Jno Hammon in Mercy &c |
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