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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1737-1738
Volume 859, Page 113b   View pdf image
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    August Court                   1737             113

hundred and thirty six to answer unto Richard Knight of a plea of trespass upon the Case &a and that
thereof he should not fail &a         Att which day here Came before the Justices of his Lordships County
Court of Somerset at dividing Creek Came the said Richard Knight by George Douglas his attorney &
the Sheriff of the Same County to witt Joseph MccClester Gent at the same day here returned that he had taken
the afd Peter Taylor & Sarah his wife whose bodies hereat this day he had ready to answer unto the
afd Richard Knight of the afd plea as to him it was Commanded      And hereupon the said Richd
declared against the afd Peter Taylor and Sarah his wife in the plea afd in form following

Somerset ss   Peter Taylor Late of Somerset County Gent and Sarah his wife lately Called
Sarah Stewart of Somerset County widdow admrx of all and Singular the goods and Chattells rights
and Creditts which were of John Stewart late of Somerset County Merchant dec.d at the time of
his death died Intestate as tis said was attached to answer unto Richard Knight of
a plea of trespass upon the Case &a

    And whereupon the said Richard Knight by George Douglas his attrny
complains that whereas the said John Stewart in his life time to witt on the first day of march
Anno Dom seventeen hundred and thirty two at Somerset County af.d within the
Jurisdiction of this Court was Indebted to the said Richard in the sum of fourteen pounds
one shilling and eleven pence half penny Curr.t money of maryland for work and
service by the said Richard for the said John in his life and at the especial request
and Instance of the said John before that time done and performed and for sundry other
matters and things properly lying in account as by an account thereof hereto annexed
may appear and so being thereof indebted in Consideration thereof afterwards in
his lifetime to wit the day and year af.d at the County af.d upon himself did assume &
to the said Richard then and there faithfully promise that he the said John the said
fourteen pounds one shilling and eleven pence half penny to the said Richard when he
should be afterwards thereof required well and faithfully he would pay and Content and alth
altho the said John afterwards in his lifetime did pay to the said Richard the sum of
eight pounds one shilling and eleven pence half penny  Nevtheless as to six pounds seven
pence half penny Curr.t money af.d Residue of the said fourteen pounds one shilling &
eleven pence half penny the said John in his life his promise and assumption af.d
in form af.d made nothing regarding but minding and fraudulently intending the
said Richard in that part craftily to deceive and defraud the said six pounds and seven
                                                                                                                      pence


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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1737-1738
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