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June Court 1723
66 of Sommersett County Greeting Wee Command you that you attach any the goods Chattles rights or Creditts of Jonathan Thurston late of Sommersett County if they shall be found in your Baliwick to the Value of two pounds ten shillings and three 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 the third tuesday of June next then and there to be Condemned according to act of assembly to and for the Use of a Certain Nehemiah Mesick unless the said Jonathan Thurston by himselfe or his attorney shall appear and answer unto the said Nehemiah Mesick in a plea of trespass upon the Case &c according to Law and that by good and Lawfull men of your Bailiwick 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 Chattles rights or Creditts 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 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 and there this WRitt Wittness Charles Ballard Gent Chiefe Justice of Our Said Court the 23d day of march in the Eighth Year of Our Dominion &c Ann Dom 1722 (G Dashiell) Thomas Hayward Clk Att which said third tuesday of June to witt the Eighteenth day of the same month ann Dom One thousand seven hundred and twenty three being the day of the return of the said Writt Comes the Said Nehemiah Mesick by his attorney afd and the sherr of Sommersett County to whom the foregoeing writt was directed Likewise Comes and makes return thereof to the Court here Endorst in these words vizt By vertue of the Within Writt to me directed to the Justices Within Mentioned I have attached in the hands of Richard Wallice and sumoned him as Garnishee the goods and Chattles of the Within Named Jona Thurston three hundred and seventy ^two^ pounds of tobo 1..13..0 and thirty six Bushells and one peck of salt 3..12..6 as also One Pork Barrell 2/6 and I have make Known unto the Said Richard Wallice that he be & appear before the Justices within Mentioned at the day and place within Contained to Shew Cause if any he have why the said severall sums of money and tobacco so attached in his hands as the goods and Chattles of the afd Jonathan Thurston should not be Condemned and Execution thereon made Before Jno Doe & Rich.d Roe good and Lawfull men of my Bailiwick as by the Writt to me I am Commanded so answers Jos MccChester Sherr Whereupon the said Richard Wallace altho' solemnly Called Comes not nor shews Cause why &c but makes default whereby the said Plft Remains thereof wholy undefended &c Whereupon the said Nehemiah Mesick by his attorney afd prays that the severall goods and tobo afd attached of the value of five pounds Eight shillings as of the rights and Creditts of the said Jonathan Thurston may be Condemned in the hands of the said Richard Wallice towards satisfying unto the said Nehemiah Mesick as well the sum of two pounds ten shillings and three hundred pounds of tobo as also the Costs accrueing upon the writt of attachm.t afd Therefore it is Considered by the Justices here the Eighteenth day of June ann Dom One thousand seven hundred and twenty three that the said sum of three hundred & seventy two pounds of tobo of the value of one pound thirteen shillings; ^and^ thirty six Bushells & one peck of salt of the value of three pounds twelve shill and six pence and one pork Barr.ll of the value of two shillings and six pence so as afd attached be Condemned in the hands of the ^said^ Richard Wallice as of the rights and Creditts of the said Jonathan Thurston towards (satisfying) |
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1723-1725
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