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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1735-1737
Volume 851, Page 78b   View pdf image
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    August Court               1735        (78)

when &.c and says that he is not guilty of the premises above upon him Imposed
in ^such^ manner and form as the said James above against him hath Complained
and of this he puts himself upon the Country and the plf.t Likewise

Thereupon it is commanded the Sheriff of Somerset County that Imediately 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 &.c by whom &.c and who neither &c
to Recognize &.c because as well &.c and afterwards I^m^mediately came thereof the
Jury &.c  And the Jurors of that same Jury By Joseph McClester Gent Sheriff of the
County aforesaid to this Impannelled being called came to witt William Holland
Lewis Jones, Joshua Caldwell, Robert Mitchell, Philip Quinton, Joseph Houston,
John Records, Nathaniel Crapper, Benjamin Tull, John Townsend Jun.r Thomas
Ackworth, John Pope who to say the truth of the premisses aforesaid being duely Elected tryed
and sworn upon their Oath do say that the said Benjamin Venables is guilty of the premisses afd in
manner and form as the said James Givans above against him hath Complained and assessed the damages
of the same James by him by Occasion of the premisses aforesaid beyound his Costs and Charges by him about
his suit in that part apposed to three pounds Fifteen shillings Curr.t money of Maryland & for those Costs
and Charges to one pound of tobacco

                      Therefore it is Considered by the Court here that the afd James Givan Recover against the
said Benjamin Venables his damages aforesaid by the Jurors aforesaid in form aforesaid assessed as also
708   Seven hundred and Eight                           pounds of tobacco for his Costs and Charges aforesaid to
the same James Givan by the Court here of his assent of Increase adjudged which Certain damages in the
whole do amount to three pounds Fifteen Shillings Curr.t money of Maryland Seven hundred & Nine
                                                          pounds of tobacco and the aforesaid Benjamin Venables in Mercy
&a


GD  John Hendry
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FA  Geo: Howard
 Command was Given to the Sheriff of Somerset County that he should take the
George Howard Late of Somerset County planter if he should be found in his bailiwick
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 County afd the third Tuesday of
March then next to answer unto John Hendry of a plea of trespass upon the Case &a and that
thereof he Should not fail &a
                                           Att which said third tuesday of March to witt the Eighteenth day of
the Same month anno Dom One thousand seven hundred and thirty five being the day of the return
of the said Writt Cometh the Said John Hendry by Geo: Douglas his attorney and the Sheriff of Somerset Coty
to whom the foregoing writt was directed  Likewise Cometh & maketh return thereof Endorsed vizt Cepi Corpus
p Joseph Macclester Sheriffe

                      Whereupon the said John Hendry by his attorney aforesaid prays the Justices
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1735-1737
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