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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1733-1735
Volume 846, Page 229   View pdf image
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               November Court       1734                229

of the Court and all Costs accrewing thereon to the said John Britt and Thomas Belling or that he the
said John Dennis Jun.r will do the Same for him &a   Whereupon the said Heritt altho' Solemnly
Cometh not nor is his writt afd against the said John Britt & Thos Billen further prosecuted &a

          Therefore it is Considered by the Court here that the afd Heritt Ratchford take nothing
by his writt and declaration afd butt that he and his pledges of prosecuting to witt John Doe
and Richard Roe are in mercy and that the afd John Britt and Thomas Billin goe thereof without
day &a  and further it is Considered that the afd John Britt & Thomas Billin Recover against
the afd Heritt their damages by Occasion of the premises to Two hundred & fifty Two
252                                             pounds of tobacco to the Same John and Thomas by discretion
of the Justices here at their request for their Costs and Charges in that part sustained
according to the form of the Statute thereof made and provided by the Court here adjudged &a


WB  Geo Douglas
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pse  John Ellis
    Command was given to the sheriff of Somerset County that he should
take John Ellis 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 Lordships County Court of Somerset to be held
at dividing Creek the third Tuesday of November then next to answer unto George
Douglas of a plea that he render unto him two Bushells and an half of wheat
and Seven hundred and twenty two pounds of Tobacco which to him he oweth and unjustly
detains &.a                              And that thereof he should not fail &.a

And the aforesaid George Douglas by William Beckingham his attorney Complains
against the af.d John Ellis in the plea af.d as Followeth Vizt

Somerset County ss   John Ellis Late of Somerset County planter was sumoned to answer
unto George Douglas of a plea that he render unto him two Bushells and an half of
wheat and Seven hundred and twenty two pounds of Tobacco which to him he oweth &
unjustly detaineth &a

And Whereupon the Same George by William Beckingham his attorney Complains
that whereas he the said George at another time to wit the ninteenth day of August
in the year of Our Lord Seventeen hundred and twenty nine at a Court of the Right
Honourable the Lord prop.ry that now is held at dividing Creek in the same County
before the worshipfull Samuel Hopkins and his associates then Justices of the
same County by Consideration of the same Court had recovered against the af.d John
Ellis by the name of John Ellis late of Somerset County planter two Bashell and an
half of wheat and Seven hundred and twenty two pounds of Tobacco certain damages
which to the said George were adjudged in the said Court as well for his damages which
he had Sustained by Occasion of the non performance of a Certain promise and
                                                                                                          (assumption


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