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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1725-1727
Volume 840, Page 30b   View pdf image
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           June Court    1725            30

LG  Adam Hitch
                agt
  Eward Johnson
 Command was given to the Sherr of Somersett County that he should take Edward Johnson
Late of Stepney parish in Somersett County Milwright if he should be found in his bailywick
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 Adam Hitch of a plea of trespass upon the Case &c and that thereof he Should not faile &c
    Att which said third tuesday of march to witt the sixteenth day of the same month ann Dom one thousand
    seven hundred and twenty four being the day of the return of the Said Writt Cometh the afd Adam hitch by ^Levin Gale^
    his attorney afd and the Sherr of Somersett County to whom the foregoeing writt was directed Likewise Cometh
    and maketh return thereof to the Court here Endorsed in these words following vizt   Cepi Corpus P Joseph
                                                                                                                                        MccClester Sherr

          Whereupon the said Sherr altho' Solemnly Called brings not in the body of the Said Adam Hitch
    Edward Johnson according to the Return of the writt in the plea afd  And the said Sherr present here
    in Court prays further day untill Next Court to bring in the said Edward Johnson ^to answer &c^ & he hath & the same
    day is Given to the afd Plft also         And the afd Adam Hitch declared against the afd Edward
    Johnson in the plea afd as followeth viz.t   Somersett County fs:  Edward Johnson Late of Stepney
    Parish in Somersett County Millwright was attached to answer unto Adam Hitch of a plea of trespass
    upon the Case &c       And whereupon the Same Adam by Levin Gale his attorney Complaineth that
    whereas the afd Edward Johnson the tenth day of November Anno Dom One thousand Seven hundred & twenty
    four at the County afd within the Jurisdiction of this Court was Indebted unto the afd Adam in the Sum
    of Eighteen pounds three Shillings and two pence halfe Penny Curr.t money of this province as by an
    acco.t herewith in Court produced may appear and so thereof being Indebted the same Edward in
    Consideration thereof afterwards to witt the day and Year afd at the County afd within the Jurisdiction
    afd upon himselfe assumed and to the Same Adam faithfully promised that he the Said Edward the afd
    Sum of Eighteen pounds three Shillings and two pence halfe penny Curr.t money to the afd Adam when
    afterwards he should be thereunto requested he would well and faithfully Content and pay Nevertheless the
    said Edward Johnson his promise and assumption afd in form afd made Little regarding and plotting
    and fraudulently Intending the afd Adam Hitch in that part Craftilly and Subtilly to defraud & deceive
    the afd Edward the afd sum of Eighteen pounds three Shillings and two pence halfe penny Currant
    money or any part thereof to the afd Adam Hitch altho afterwards to witt the fifteenth day of
    November Seventeen hundred & twenty four at the County afd within the Jurisdiction afd he the said
    Edward was thereunto requested hath not paid him the said Adam for it in anywise Contented
    but the same Edward Johnson the Same to doe hath altogether refused and Still doth refuse
    whereby the same Adam says he is worse and hath damage to the value of forty pounds Currt
                                                                                                                                     money


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