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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1735-1737
Volume 851, Page 239   View pdf image
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    August Court       1736            239

whereupon the said Listian he is worse and hath damage to the value of nine thousand pounds
of tobacco and thereof he brings his Suit and the said Listian Alexander hereinto Court brings the testamentary
Letters of the afd William Alexander by which it sufficiently appears to the Court here that the
said Listian Alexander is Executor of the testament and Last Will of the said William Alexander and
thereof to have administration                                                Pledges &a  Jno Doe
                                                                                                                R Roe

    Att which said third Tuesday of august to witt the seventeenth day of the same month anno
Dom One thousand Seven hundred and thirty Six being the day of the return of the Same Writt
Came the said Listian Alexander by his attorney afd and the Sheriffe of Somerset County to witt
Joseph MccClester Gent ^Likewise Cometh &^ returned that by vertue of the Writt afd to him directed he had taken the body
of the afd Renshar Roberts whose body before his Lordships Justices at the same day and place in the
writt afd mentioned he had there ready &a

    And the afd Listian Alexander who ofered his writt & declaration afd in the afd Plea of Debt of Eight
thousand pounds of tob.o against the afd Renshar Roberts appears by pretext of his Lordship writt
afd at Suit of the Same Listian Alexander which same Writt and declaration the same Listian
against the afd Renshar ^afterwards^ did not prosecute

          Therefore it is Considered by the Justices here that the afd Listian Alexander ^Executor of ye same Wm Alexd^ take nothing
by his writt and declaration afd but that he and his pledges of prosecuting to witt John Doe and
Richard Roe are in mercy and that the afd Renshar go thereof without day &a


FA:  Thomas Adams
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    William Burton
Command was Given to the Sheriffe of Somerset County that
he should take William Burton Late of Somerset County planter
                      al.s dict William Burton of the County of Sussex one delaware Yeoman
if he shold be found in his bailywick and him should safe keep so that he might have
his body before the Justices of his Lordship County Court of Somerset to be held at dividing
Creek in the Same County the third Tuesday of August then next to answer unto Thomas
Adams of a plea that he render unto him ^fifty pounds^ Curr.t Lawfull money of Pensilvania which to
him he owes and unjustly detaines &a and that thereof he should not fail &a

       And the said Thomas Adams by Francis Allen his attorney declared against the said
       William Burton in the plea afd as Followeth vizt

Somerset ss
                      William Burton Late of Somerset County planter al.s dict William Burton of the County
of Sussex one delaware Yeoman was sumoned to answer unto Thomas Adams of a plea that
                                                                                                                                  he


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