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August Court
1727
21 for his Costs and Charges to the afd Alexander by the Court here of his assent of Increase adjudged which Certain damages in the whole do amount unto two pounds three shills Currt Mony and Seventeen hundred and thirty six pounds of tobacco and the afd William in Mercy &c
trespass upon the Case &c & that thereof he should not fail &c And the said John Brown Complained against the afd Ebenezer in the plea afd as follows vizt Mr Ebenezer Cooke You are Indebted unto me by your Note from Under hands four hundred pounds of Tob.o and Except you appear at Next Court to be held at Dividing Creek in Somersett County the third tuesday of August Next I Expect to obtain an attachm.t against your Effects if any to be found in the County afd A Copy of the foregoeing short note was made and Sent to be Left at the Last Place of abode of the said Ebenezer &c Att which said third tuesday of August to witt ye fifteenth day of the same Month Ann.o Dom one thousand seven hundred & twenty seven being the day of the return of ye said Writt Comes the said Jn.o Browne in his own proper person and the Sher of Somrsett Co.ty to whome the foregoing writt was Directed Likewise Cometh and Maketh return thereof to the Court here Endorsed in these words following vizt Non Est Inventus short note Left P Francis Allen Sher Whereupon the said Jno Browne Prayes that forasmuch as he has Complyed with the Law in order to an attachm.t he may have Judgm.t against the said Ebenezer Cooke for his Dam.s afd by way of attachm.t according to act of assembly &c Whereupon for y.t it Seems to the Court here that the said Jn.o Browne has Complyed with the Laws as alledged Therefore it is Considered by the Justices here the fifteenth day of August Ann.o Dom one thousand Seven hundred & twenty seven afd that the said Jn.o Browne Recover against ye said Ebenezer Cooke as well ye Sum of four hundred pds of Tob.o his Dam.s by Occasion of ye premisses afd as all Costs and 96 Charges by ye said Plft Laid out & Expended about his Suite by way of attachm.t ag.t the goods Chattles Rights or Creditts of the said Ebenezer Cooke according to act of assembly in Such Case made and Provided &c
that the same Patrick the second day of March Anno Dom one thousand Seven hundred and twenty five at Stepny Parish afd within the Jurisdiction of this Court with force (&) |
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