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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1725-1727
Volume 840, Page 189b   View pdf image
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       Novem Court                    1726     189

LG  John Pope
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Thomas Brown
 Command was given to the Sherr of Somersett County that he Should take
     Thomas Brown late of somersett County planter if he Should be found in
his Bayliwick and him should safe keep so that he might have his Body before
          the Justices of his Lordships County Court of Somersett to be held at Dividing Creek the third
tuesday of march then next to answer unto John Pope in a plea of trespass upon the Case &a and
that thereof he Should not fail &a

             And whereupon the same John Pope by Levin Gale his attorney Complains that whereas
the afd Thomas the tenth day of June ann.o Dom one thousand seven hundred and twenty six at
Somersett County afd within the Jurisdiction of this Court was Indebted to the same John in the Sum of
Eleven hundred pence as by Acc.o herewithin Court produced may appear & so thereof being Indebted
the same Thomas in Consideration thereof afterwards to witt the same day and Year afd at the County
afd & within the Jurisdiction afd upon himselfe assumed & ^to^ the same John Pope then & there faithfully
promised that he when afterwards he should be thereto requested he the afd Sum of Eleven
hundred pence to the Same John wou'd well & faithfully Content & pay Nevertheless the Same
Thomas his promise & assumption afd in form afd made Little regarding & plotting & fraudulently
Intending the afd John in that Part Craftilly & Subtilly to defraud & deceive the afd sum
of Eleven hundred pence or any part thereof to the said John hath not paid or him for it in any
wise Contented although often thereto requested but the same Thomas the same hitherto to do
hath altogether refused & still doth refuse to the damage of the same John ten pounds
Curr.t money and thereof he brings this Suite &c      L: Gale P Quer pledges &.c Jno Doe R.d Roe

       Att which said third tuesday of November to witt the fifteenth day of the Same month
anno Dom One thousand Seven hundred and twenty Six being the day of the Return of the said
Writt Cometh the said John Pope by his attorney afd and the Sherr of Somersett County to whom
the foregoeing Writt was directed Likewise Cometh and maketh Return thereof Endorsed in these
words following vizt   Non Est Inventus Short note Left P Francis Allen Sherr

    Whereupon the afd John Pope by his attorney afd prayed that forasmuch as he hath Complyed
with the Law in order to an attachm.t he may have Judgmt against the afd Thomas Brown for
his damages afd by way of attachment according to act of assembly &a whereupon for that it
seemeth to the Court here that the afd John Pope hath Complyed with the Law as Alledged;

             Therefore it is Considered by the Justices here the fifteenth day of Novem.r anno
Dom One thousand seven hundred & twenty Six that the afd John Pope Recover against the afd
Thomas Brown as well the Sum of Eleven hundred pence his damages by Occasion of the premisses
afd as all Costs and Charges by the said plft Laid Out and Expended about his Suite
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