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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1737-1738
Volume 859, Page 110b   View pdf image
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       August Court                1737         110

barr to the barr here Led in his proper person and the Jurors of that Jury afd by the Sheriffe
of the County afd to this Impannelled being Called Came to witt Edmond Hough Joshua Caldwell Thomas
Perkins Alexander Lackie Samuel Long Robert Collier John Roach John Gosline John Atkinson
William Turpin Robert Mitchell and James Neirne who to say the truth of and upon the premises
being Elected tryed and Sworn upon their Oath Say that the Same James Duffey is not Guilty
of the felony in the Indictment afd above specified in manner and form as the afd James Duffey above
above by pleading alledged   Whereupon all and singular the premisses being seen and by the
Court here fully understood  It is Considered by the Court here that the afd James Duffey be quiet
and goe thereof without day &.a and whereupon the said James Duffey is ordered to give security
for the payment of the Severall Officers their fees due upon the Indictment afd but for want thereof
the said James Duffey is Committed into the Custody of the Sheriffe of the County afd thereto remaine untill
&.a


WG  Mr Tench Francis
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P Nicholas Fountain Jun.r
Command was given to the Sheriffe of Somerset County that he
should take Nicholas Fountain Junr Late of Somerset County planter 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 the third Tuesday of August ann Dom One thousand Seven hundred and thirty Seven
to answer unto answer unto Mr Tench Francis of a plea of trespass upon the Case &.a and
that thereof he Should not fail &.a

          Att which day here before the Justices of his Lordships County Court of Somerset at dividing
Creek Came the said Tench Francis by William Goldsborough his attorney and the Sheriffe of the same
County to witt John Henry Gent at the same day here returned that he had taken the afd Nicholas
Fountain whose body hereat this day he had ready to answer unto the afd Tench Francis of the afd plea as
to him it was Commanded   And hereupon the said Tench Francis declared against the afd Nicholas
Fountain in the plea afd in form following
                                                                            Somerset sst Nicholas Fountain Jun.r Late of
Somerset County planter was attached to answer unto Mr Tench Francis of a plea of trespass upon
the Case &a      And Whereupon the Same Tench ^by^ William Goldsborough his attorney Complaineth
that whereas the af.d Nicholas after the first Day of May in the Year of our Lord God seventeen
hundred and five to wit the twenty eighth Day of September Ann Dom seventeen hundred thirty and
four at Somerset County af.d did draw his certain Note in Writing Called a promissory Note with
his proper hand subscribed bearing date the day and Year last mentioned and that note unto
the said Tench then and there did deliver by which said note the said Nicholas did promise to pay
unto the said Tench or order the sum of four pounds Current money of Value received and
                                                                                                                                     by


 
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1737-1738
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