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June Court
1731
91 the said Brent Nuttall Shall be therein Convict that then he the Said Brent Nuttall Shall pay the Condemnation of the Court thereupon or render his body to the Custody of the Sher of Somerset County in Satisfaction thereof or that he the Said William Gray will do it for him &c Whereupon the Said Brent Nuttall by Francis Allen his attorney comes and defends the force and Injury when &.c and Says that he Cannot Gainsay the action afd of the afd John Wootten nor but that he did assume upon himselfe in manner and form as the afd John above against him hath Complained and as to the damage of the Same John by him by Occasion of the premisses in that part Sustained the Same Brent Saith and Confesseth that the afd John has Sustained damages by Occasion of the premisses beyound his Costs and Charges by him about his Suit in that part apposed too five pounds and Eleven pence farthing Currant mony and not more and because the afd Brent denys not this but the Same allegation Confesseth to be true prays Judgm.t and those damages above Confessed together with those Costs and Charges aforesaid to him adjudged &c Therefore it is Considered by Consent of the parties aforesaid that the afd John Wootten Recover against the Said Bent Nuttall his damages afd to the afd five pounds and Eleven pence farthing by the Same Brent Nuttall in 264 form afd Confessed as also two hundred & Sixty Four pounds of tobacco for his Costs and Charges afd to the Same John Wootten at his request by the Court here and Consent of the parties afd adjudged and the afd defend.t in Mercy &c with Stins Ex.n till 15 augt Next
two of you to be our comissioners to Examine Evidences on behalf of a Certain Thomas Purnall of the County afd in Relation to the Bounds of four tracts of Land Lying in the county afd to witt Smiths Choice Unity Chance called and north Benslitt we therefore require you or any three or two of you at some time and place as to you or any three or two of you shall seem convenient you Meet on the afd Land called Smiths Choice Unity Chance and North Benslitt ^you first^ having Taken your oaths on the Holy Evangelist of Allmighty God according to Act of Assembly in Such case made and provided and there cause to come before you or any three or two of you all such Evidences as Shall be to you or any three or two of you Nominated by the said complainent of Def.t if any and that you or any three or two of you Examine them upon their corporall oaths to be by you or any three or two of you administered on the holy Evangelist of Almighty God in the presents of the complainent or Def.t if any Touching the truth or Remembrance of their knowledge or any thing that may relate to the cause afd and that Reduceing the Severall Depositions into Writing you send the Same together with this our Commission under your or any three or two of your hands to us to our county Court of Somerset with all convenient Speed Wittness W.m Planner Gent.m one of Our Justices of our said Court ye twentieth day of March In the sixteenth Year of Our Dominion Ann Dom one thousand seven hundred and thirty On the back side of the Foregoeing Commission it was endorsed and to the Same Commission it was annexed vizt the within Mr William Lane and Mr Nathaniel Hopkins Swore before me to prosecute the within Commission this 23.d day of Aprill 1731 Jno Smith Depositions |
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1730-1733
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