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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1737-1738
Volume 859, Page 232b   View pdf image
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       March Court        1737                 232

William Porter as before defends the force and Injury when &.a and prays Judgmt of the declaration
aforesaid because he saith that the Declaration aforesaid and the Matter in the same Contained are not
sufficient in law for the aforesaid William Nelson his Action aforesaid against him the said
William Porter to have and Maintain to which the said William hath not need nor by the Law of the
Land is he held in any sort to answer and this he is ready to verify wherefore for want of a sufficient
Declaration in that parte the said William Porter prays Judgment of that Declaration and that
the said Declaration may be quashed &c   afterwards the same day the aforesaid William Porter
relinquisheth his verification afd by him above pretended and saith that he Cannot deny the
action afd of the aforesaid William Nelson nor Can he say but that the Bond of writing obligatory
aforesaid is his deed nor ^can he say^ but that he doth detaine from the afd William Nelson the aforesaid one
hundred pounds Currant money of Maryland in manner and form as the afd William Nelson above
against him declared
                                                 Therefore it is Considered that the aforesaid William Nelson Executor
of the afd Hugh Nelson dec.d Recover against the aforesaid William Porter his debt aforesaid and his
damages by occasion of the detention of the same debt to five hundred and thirty five pounds of
tobacco to the same Will.m Nelson of his assent by the Court here adjudged and the afd deft in Mercy
Memorand.m the plft releaseth all the debt above saving fourteen pounds ten shillings Currt Money
of Maryland &a


FA RH  Hugh Stephenson
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GD  Catherine Donelson
       admrx Jno Donnelson
Command was given to the Sheriffe of Somerset County that
he should take Catherine Donnelson Late of Somerset County
widdow admrx of all and Singular the goods and Chattles rights
and Credits of John Donelson Late of Somerset County merch.t otherwise Lately
Called John Donnelson of Somerset County and province of Maryland Mercht if she
should be found in his bailywick and her should safe keep so that he might have
her body before the Justices of his Lordships County Court of Somerset to be held at
deviding Creek in the same County the third tuesday of June Anno Dom one
thousand seven hundred and thirty seven to answer unto the Rev.d Hugh Stevenson
of a plea that she render unto him two hundred pounds Currt and lawfull
money of the af.d province which from him she unjustly detains &.a and the
same day is given to the af.d Hugh here &.a    Att which day here before his Lordships
Justices at a Court then held at deviding Creek in the same County Came the
af.d Hugh Stevenson by Francis Allen his attorney and the af.d Sherriffe to wit
Joseph Macclester Gent now here returned that he had taken the af.d Catherine
                                                                                                          Donnelson


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