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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1733-1735
Volume 846, Page 145   View pdf image
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    March Court                            1733             145

FA  Isaac Beachamp
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RH WB  John White po
 Somerset County sst    John White of Pocomoke late of Somerset County planter
was attached to answer unto Isaac Beahamp of a plea of trespass upon
the Case &a 
                                                 And Whereupon the said Isaac by Francis Allen his attorney Complaines
    that whereas the said John on the Fourteenth day of October Anno Dom Seventeen hundred & sixteen
    at Somerset County Within the Jurisdiction of this Court by Marrying Sarah Mother to
    the Said Isaac and Relict of Thomas Beauchamp Deceased Father of the Said Isaac Did receive
    and Take into his possession a Certain Plantation & Tract of Land Called Contention Scituate
    Lying and ^being upon the head of Annamessex river in the County of Somerset aforesd and^ Belonging to the Said Isaac then a Minor and the Said Plantation and Tract of
    Land So In his possession Did keep from the aforesaid fourteenth Day of October Seventeen
    Hundred & sixteen untill the fourteenth Day of July Seventeen hundred and Nineteen During
    which time the said John Did permitt & suffer the plantation aforesaid and the fence on the
    Same to Grow Worse and Decay to the Great Damage of the said Isaac then Still being a
    Minor under the age of Twenty One Years By reason whereof as also by force and vertue
    of an act of Assembly of this province Now In force in Such Case Lately made and provided
    Cap.t William Planner then one of the Comissioners of the Right Honourable the Lord
    Proprietary in & for the County of Somerset on the aforesaid fourteenth Day of July seventeen
    hundred and Nineteen together with William Catlyn & Thomas Tull both of the
    County of Somerset planters being Two persons of Good repute and well Skilled in building
    and Plantation Affairs Nominated by the Said Cap.t William Planner being the Nearest
    Comissioner to the place where the ^said^ Land Lyeth then and there Did Enter upon the
    Lands and Plantation aforesaid belonging to the said Isaac and Did Take their Corporal
    Oaths Upon the Holy Evangelist which said Oath was to them Administred by the
    Said Cap.t William Planner then being a Comissioner as aforesaid and then & there Did view
    the Dwelling Houses and Out houses Lands Orchards and Fences upon the Said plantation
    and returned a Certificate of their Said View under their hands and Seals attested by the
    Said Comissioner who had so administred the Oaths as aforesaid to the then Next Ensuing County
    Court after the Review so had and made as aforesaid as by the records and proceedings in the
    Said County Court remaining more plainly appears which said William Catlyn & Thomas
    Tull upon their view aforesaid so as aforesaid made amongst other things in the said Certificate
    so by them returned as aforesaid Contained Did find that the plantation had received Damages
    since the said John White had been possessed with it to Eight pounds Currant Money of
    this province as by the said Certificate upon the records of the said County Court remaining more plainly
    appears by reason whereof as also by force and virtue of the act of assembly afd action accrews to the said
    Isaac to have and recover from the said John Double damages for the damage Committed upon the
    plantation afd which said Double Damages amount to Sixteen pounds Curr.t money of Maryland
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