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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1730-1733
Volume 842, Page 66b   View pdf image
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              march Court   1730             66

LG:  Joseph MccClester
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       William Hopkins
     Command was Given to the Sher of Somerset County that he Should take the Said William

Hopkins late of Somerset County planter 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 Lordship's County Court of Somerset to be held
at dividing Creek the third tuesday of March then next to answer unto Joseph McClester of a plea of trespass upon the Case &.c
and that thereof he Should not fail &.c

                            And the Said Joseph MaClester by Levin Gale his attorney Complained against the aforesaid William
Hopkins in the plea aforesaid as followeth viz.t

    Somerset fs  William Hopkins Late of Somerset County Planter was attached to answer unto Joseph MccClester
of a plea of trespass upon the Case &.c

             And whereupon the Said Joseph by Levin Gale his attorney Complaines that whereas the Said William
the Second day of may ann.o Dom Seventeen hundred and tweenty Nine at Somerset County aforesaid Within the Jurisdiction
of this court was Indebted unto the Said Joseph in four hundred and twenty Nine pounds of tobacco as by his Certain
note here in Court produced may appear and being so thereof Indebted the Said William in Consideration thereof the day
and Year aforesaid at the County aforesaid within the Jurisdiction aforesaid upon himselfe did assume and to the
Said Joseph then and there did faithfully promise that he the Said William the aforesaid four hundred & twenty
nine pounds of tobacco when he Should be thereunto Requested he would well and faithfully pay and Content
nevertheless the Said William his promise and assumption aforesaid in form afd made nothing Regarding but plotting
and fraudulently Intending the Said Joseph in that part Craftilly and Subtilly to deceive and defraud the afd
four hundred and twenty nine pounds of tobacco to the Said Joseph altho' the Same to do the Said William by the
said Joseph on the aforesaid Second day of may in the Year aforesaid and often afterwards he was thereunto
Requested hath not paid or to him for the Same in any Sort Contented but the Same to him hitherto to pay or in any sort
to Content hath Refused and Still doth Refuse and deny whereupon he Saith he is worse and hath damage to the
value of Eight hundred ^& fifty Eight^ pounds of tobacco and thereupon he brings Suit   L Gale P Quer Pledges &c  Jno Doe R Roe

    A Copy of the Cause of action was made and Sent to be Left at the Last place of the above of the deft

    Att which Said third tuesday of of March to witt the Sixteenth day of the Same month anno Dom Dom One thousand
Seven hundred and thirty being the day of the Return of the Said Writt Cometh the Said Joseph MccClester by his
attorney aforesaid and Sher of Somerset County to whom the foregoeing writt was directed Likewise Cometh and
maketh Return thereof to the Court here Endorsed in these words vizt   Non est Inventus Short note Left P
                                                                                                                                              John Purnall sher

          Whereupon the aforesaid Joseph MccClester by his attorney aforesaid prays that forasmuch as he hath
Complyed with the Law in order to an attachment he may have Judgmt against the Said William Hopkins
by way of attachment for his damages afd according to act of assembly &.c  Whereupon for that it Seems to ye
Court here that the Said Joseph Macclester has Complyed with the Law as alledged

                         Therefore it is Considered by the Court here that the aforesaid Joseph Macclester Recover
against the Said William Hopkins four hundred and twenty nine pounds of tobacco for his damages
by Occasion of the premisses aforesaid as all Costs and Charges by the Said plft Laid Out and
202   expended about his Suit by way of attachment against the Goods Chattells Rights or Creditts of the
said William Hopkins according to act of assembly in Such Case made and provided &c


LG:  Dunkin Murray
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Pse  John Charles
 This being an action of trespass upon the Case &.c  wherein the Sher of
of Somerset County to whom the writt in the Same action was directed Comes
and makes Return thereof to the Court here Endorsed vizt Cepi Corpus
                                                                                                                P John Purnall sher

             Whereupon the Said John Charles being Called appears and thereupon the Said John Charles
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