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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1730-1733
Volume 842, Page 45b   View pdf image
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November Court           1730       45

Donelson or his Order hath not paid and that for want of payment thereof the Said Second Bill of Exchange
afterwards to wit upon the fourteenth day of Aprill one thousand seven hundred & thirty was at London
viz  In Somerset County af.d within the Jur of this Court by the order of the Same James protested or Caused
to be protested the first nor third Bill of Exchange of the Same tenor & & Date being paid whereof the same
George Martin afterwards to wit the tenth day of June one thousand seven hundred & thirty at Somerset
County af.d and within the af.d Jur had notice & In Consideration thereof and the Custom of merch.t af.d upon
himselfe asurmed & to the & to the same Donelson then and there faithfuly did promise that he when afterwards
he should be thereunto requested he the af.d sum of seventy three pounds Sterling unto the Same James
Donelson would well and faithfully Content and pay   Nevertheless the Same George his promise & assumption
af.d in form af.d made LIttle regarding but plotting & fraudulently Intending him the Said James in yt ^part^
Craftily and Subtilly to Defraud and Deceive he the Said George the af.d sum of Seventy three pounds Sterling
or any part thereof to the Same James Donelson hath not paid nor him for it in anywise Conted altho the
same George the Same to doe afterwards to wit the Same day & year af.d Last Mentioned at the County af.d
& within the af.d Jur was by the same James requested but the Said George Martin the Same Hetherto
to do hath altogether Refused and Still doth refuse whereby the Same James Donelson says he is worse &
hath damage to the value of Ninty nine pounds Sterling & thereof he brings ^this^ Suite &.c
                                                                                     Levin Gale P Qur pledges   Jn.o Doe
                                                                                                                               R Roe

                                      Att which Said third tuesday of November to witt the Seventeenth day of the Same month being the
day of the return of the said writt Cometh the said James Donelson by his attorney aforesaid and the Sher of Somerset
County to whom the foregoeing writt was directed Likewise cometh & maketh Return thereof to the Court here endorsed viz.t
                                                                                                                Non est Inventus short note Left P Jno Purnall sher

                         Whereupon the Said James Donelson by his attorney aforesaid prays that forasmuch as he has Complyed with the Law in
order to an attachment he may have Judgment against the Said George Martin for his damages afd (and fifteen pounds
Sterling PCent allowed by act of assembly with the Charges of protest which in the whole amounts to Eighty four pounds
three shillings and Eight pence Sterling) by way of attachment according to Act of assembly &c

                            Therefore it is Considered by the Court here that the aforesaid James Donelson Recover against the
aforesaid George Martin Eighty four pounds Sterling three Shillings and Eight pence Sterling mony his damages afd
300   as also all Costs and Charges by the said plft Laid out and Expended about his suit by way of attachment against the
goods and Chattells Rights & Creditts of the Said George Martin according to act of assembly in Such Case made & provided
&.a


LG  mad.m Betty Gale
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Pse  Lazarus Maddox
 Somerset ss     Lazarus Maddox late of Somerset County Gent was attached to answer unto Betty Gale
of a plea of trespass upon the Case &c
                                                                      And whereupon the Same Betty Gale by Levin Gale her
                  attorney complaines that whereas the aforesaid Lazarus the tenth day of November Seventeen hundred and
twenty Eight at Somerset County within the Jurisdiction of this Court was Indebted unto the Same Betty in the Sum of
four pounds Eight Shillings and Eight pence halfe penny Currant mony for divers Goods wares and merchantdizes
to him at his Especiall Instance and request before that time Sold and delivered and so thereof being Indebted the
Said Lazarus in consideration thereof afterwards to witt the Same day and Year aforesaid at the County aforesd
within the aforesaid Jurisdiction upon himselfe assumed and to the aforesaid Betty Gale then and there faithfully
did promise that he when afterwards he should be thereto requested the aforesaid Sum of four pounds Eight
Shillings and Eight pence halfe penny to the Same Betty Gale he wol'd well and faithfully Content and pay  Nevertheless
the Same Lazarus his promise and assumption aforesaid in form aforesaid made Little Regarding but
plotting and fraudulently intending her the Said Betty Gale in that part Craftilly and Subtilly to defraud &
and deceive he the aforesaid Sum of four pounds Eight Shillings and Eight pence halfe penny nor any part
thereof to the Same Betty Gale hath not paid nor her for the Same in anywise Contented altho' the Same
Lazarus the SAme to do afterwards to witt the Same day and Yeare afd at the County aforesaid & within the afd
                                                                                                                                                             Jurisdiction


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