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March Court
1734
(256) Sterling and three hundred & Eighty two pounds of tobacco &.a and that by Good and lawfull men of your bailywick you make known unto the person or persons in whose hands you make the same attachment that he she or they be and appear before our Justices of our County Court to be held as af.d to shew Cause if any he she or they have why the same goods Chattles Rights or Creditts so attached in his her or their hands Ought not to be Condemned and Execution thereof had and made according to act of assembly in such Case made and provided if to him her or them it shall Seem meet and how you shall Execute this writt that you make ^known^ unto our said Justices at the say and place af.d and have you then and there this writt Wittness Robert King Gent Chief Justice of our s.d Court the Twenty seve^nth^ day of November In the twentieth Year of our dominion &.a Ann Dom One thousand Seven hundred and thirty four Att which said third Tuesday of March to witt the Eighteenth day of the same month Ann Dom One thousand Seven hundred and thirty four being the day of the return of the said writt cometh the said George Eskridge by William Beckingham his attorney and the sheriff of Somerset County to whom the foregoing writt was directed likewise Comes and makes return thereof to the Court here Endorsed in these words Following Viz.t To the worshipfull Justices within mentioned I certifie that on the twenty fifth day of January in the year Seventeen hundred & thirty four at Somerset County before Thomas Walker & John Doe good and lawfull men of my bailywick I attached Eight thousand one hundred nintey four & an half pounds of tobacco and one thousand pounds of Tobacco in my own hands as of the Goods & Chattles of the same William Wye which same first sum of tobacco by Thomas Walker George Dashiell Thomas Gillis and Alexander Leckie Free holders of the County af.d duly sumoned & sworn is by them appraised at the rate of nine shillings and four pence half penny Sterling p.r Hundred as by a Schedule thereof hereunto annexed may appear so answers Jos: Macclester sheriff Whereupon the afd Joseph MccClester Garnishee of the afd William Wye appears in his own proper person and says that he Cannot Gainsay but that he has of the rights and Creditts of the William Wyes to the Value of Eight thousand One hundred ninty four and a halfe pounds of tob.o (valued as afd at Nine Shillings and four pence halfe penny sterling p hundred) and one thousand pounds of tobacco ^more^ so as afd attached nor Can he Say but that the Same Ought to be Condemned in his hands for the Use of the said Geo Eskridge as of the rights and Creditts of the same Wm Wye which the same plft doth not Gainsay &a Thereupon the said Geo: Eskridge by his attorney afd prays that upon Giveing Security according to act of assembly in Such Case provided that the afd Nine thousand one hundred ninty four and |
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1733-1735
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