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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1735-1737
Volume 851, Page 293b   View pdf image
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    November Court                        1736         293

WG  The same
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GD  Thomas Predix
     Command was given to the sheriff of Somerset County that he should take
Thomas Predix late of Somerset County planter otherwise Called Thomas
Predix 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 in the same County the third tuesday of August then Next to answer
unto his said Lordship the Lord proprietary of a plea that he render unto him Twenty
pounds sterling which unto the said Lord proprietary he oweth and unjustly detaineth &c
and that thereof he should fail &c   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 same return of the said Writt Came the said Lord proprietor by William Goldsborough
his attorney and the sheriff of Somerset County to witt Joseph MccClester Gent to
whom the foregoing writt was directed  Likewise Cometh and made return that by vertue
of the writt afd to him thereof directed he had taken the body of the said Thomas Predix whose
body before the Justices of his Lordships County Court of Somerset at the same day and place in
the writt afd mentioned he had there ready &c   Whereupon Came hereinto Court Daniel
Coe and Avery Morgan of Somerset County planters and undertook and Each of them undertook
and assumed upon themselves for the same Thomas Predix (Lickwise the said Thomas
Predix present herein Court in his proper person assumed upon himself) that if it
should happen that the said Lord proprietary should recover Judgment in the plea
afd against him the said Thomas Predix in the same Court or that the same Thomas
Predix should be therein Convicted that then he the said Thomas Predix should
pay the Judgmt of the Court thereupon unto the said Lord proprietary or render his
body in Execution of such Judgment to the prison of the sheriffe of Somerset County
in satisfaction thereof or that they the said Daniel Coe and Avery Morgan will do the same
for him &c

Whereupon the afd Thomas Predix by Geo: Douglas his attorney Comes and
defends the force and Injury when &c and prays leave thereof to Imparle here untill
next Court and he hath it and the same day is given to his said Lordship here also &c

Att which said next Court to witt the sixteenth day of November Anno Dom one thousand
seven hundred and thirty six Came again as well the afd Lord proprietary by his attorney
afd as the said Thomas Predix by his attorney afd and whereupon his said Lordship the
Lord proprietary by his attorney Confesseth himself herein court he will no further prosecute
against the afd Thomas Predix in the plea afd   Therefore the same Thomas Predix goe
thereof without day &c


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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1735-1737
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