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November Court
1735 119 came hereinto Court in his proper person and undertook for the said Thomas Gray and assumed upon himself (Likewise the said Thomas Gray assumed upon himselfe) that if in Case the said William Camplin should recover Judgment in the plea af.d against the said Thomas Gray or that the said Thomas Gray should be therein Convicted that then he the said Thomas Gray should pay the Condemnation of the Court thereupon or render his body in Execution of Such Judgment to the prison of the Sheriff of Somerset County in satisfaction thereof or that he the said William M.cClemmy will do the same for him &.a And the aforesaid Thomas Gray by Francis Allen his attorney cometh and defendeth the force and Injury when &.a and prays leave thereof to Imparle hereuntill next Court and he hath it and the same day is given to the aforesaid William Camplin ^herealso^ &.a Att which said next Court to witt the Eighteenth day of November Ann: Dom: One thousand Seven hundred and thirty five came againe as well the af.d William Camplin as the af.d Thomas Gray by their attorneys aforesaid and thereupon the said Thomas Gray as before ^defends^ the force and Injury when &.a and saith that he did not assume upon himself in such manner and form as the s.d William Camplin above against him Complains and of this he puts himself upon the Country &.a and the plf.t likewise &.a Thereupon it is Commanded the Sheriff of Somerset County that Immediately he should Cause to Come here before the Justices of his Lordships County Court of Somerset now sitting at dividing Creek in the County af.d twelve &.a by whome &.a and who neither &.a to recognize &.a because as well &.a and afterwards Immediately came thereof the Jury &.a and the Jurors of that same Jury by Joseph M.cClester Gent Sheriff of the County af.d to this Impannelled being called came to witt Mathew Hopkins, Thomas Dixon, John WIlliams, William Fasitt, Philip Quinton, Peter Claywell, Thomas Pullett, Hutten Hill, Joshua Porter, John Paty, John Webb and John Purkins who to say the truth of the premisses aforesaid being duely Elected tryed and Sworn upon their Oath sayd that the aforesaid Thomas Gray did assume upon himselfe in manner and form as the said William Camplin above against him hath Complained and assessed the damages of the Same William by Occasion of the non performance of the promise and assumption aforesaid beyound his Costs and Charges by him about his Suit in that part apposed to Seven pounds Seven Shillings and Eleven pence Curr.t money of Maryland and for those Costs and Charges by to one pound of tobo Whereupon the said Thomas Gray comes & says that Judgment ought not to be rendered for the plf.t on the Verdict af.d because he says the declaration is Insufficient in law for that it does not thereby appear that the defendant is indebted to the plf.t in any sum whatsoever whereupon |
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1735-1737
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