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sheriff of Somerset County Greeting we Command you that you attach any of the good Chattles Rights or Creditts of John Donelson late of Somerset County Marriner if they shall be found in your bailywick to the value of seven pounds thirteen shillings and five pence Currt money of Maryland and twenty one pounds one shilling and four pence halfe Boston money and seven hundred pounds of tobacco and when you have the same attached any part thereof the same in your Custody safe keep so that you have the same before our Justices of our County Court of Somerset to be held at dividing Creek ^the^ third tuesday of august next then and there to be Condemned According to act of assembly to and for the use of a Certain Samuel Hopkins unless the said John Donelson by himself or his attorney shall appear and answer unto the said Samuel Hopkins in a plea of trespass upon the case &c According to law 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 you make the same attachment that he she or they be and appear before our Justices of our County Court to be held as afd to shew cause if any he she ^or they^ have why the same goods Chattells 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 day and place afd and have you then and there this writt Wittness Robert King Gent Chief Justice of our said Court the nineteenth day of June in the twenty second year of our Dominion &c Anno Dom one thousand seven hundred thirty and six Att which said Third Tuesday 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 Cometh the Same Samuel Hopkins by his attorney afd and the Sheriff of Somerset County to whom the foregoing writt was directed Likewise Cometh and maketh return thereof to the Court here Endorsed in these words following vizt By Virtue of the Within Writt to me directed to the Justices within Mentioned I Certifie that I have attached in the hands of Capt Luke Morris as the goods and Chattells of Capt John Donelson to the Value of Eight pounds ten Shillings for the Use of Capt Samuel Hopkins which further appears by a schedule hereunto annexed and I further Certifie that by Littleton Townsend and John Doe good & Lawfull men of my Bailywick that I made known unto the above Named Luke Morris that he be and appear at the time and place within Contained so answers Jos: McClester sher Aug.t y.e 19.th 1736 We the Subscribers whose names are under Written being Somoned and Sworn |
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