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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1737-1738
Volume 859, Page 243b   View pdf image
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    March Court                           1737                    243

to them or either of them before or since the espousals between them Celebrated to render hitherto
hath denyed and still doth deny and unjustly detain altho' thereto afterwards by the said
Comfort when she was sole to witt on the second day of May Anno Dom MDCCXXXv
and by the said Charles and Comfort since the espousals between them Celebrated to witt
on the first day of September in the year of Lord MDCCXXXvi and often since
that the said Richard was required  Whereupon they say they are damnifyed one hundred
and thirty three pounds Currt money of maryland and thereof they bring
suit &.a                                             Pledges &a John Doe and Richard Roe

Whereupon a Certain John Brittingham and James Houston both of Somerset
County planters present herein Court in their proper persons undertook and each
of them undertook for the af.d Richard Brooks and assumed upon themselves and
each of them assumed upon himself (Likewise the same Richard Brooks present here
in Court in his proper person assumed upon himself) that if it should happen that Judgment
in the plea af.d should be rendred for the same Charles Stockley and Comfort his wife
against him the said Richard or that then the said Richard should be therein Convicted
that then they he the said Richard should pay and satisfye unto the said Charles Stockley
and Comfort his wife the Judgment of the Court thereupon or render his body in execution
of such Judgment to the prison of the sherriffe of the County af.d in satisfaction
thereof or that they the said John Brittingham and James Houston or either of them
will do the same for him      And the af.d Richard Brooks by Robert Jenckins Henry
his attorney comes and defends the force and Injury when &a and prayeth Leave thereof
to Imparle here untill the next Court to be held at dividing Creek in and for the County
af.d the third tuesday of March then next following and he hath it and the same
day is given to the af.d Charles and Comfort here also &.a

Att which day here Came againe as well the af.d Charles Stockley and Comfort his wife
by their attorney af.d as the af.d Richard Brooks by his attorney af.d and the said Richard
Brooks as before defends the force and Injury when &.a and saith that he Cannot deny
the action af.d of the af.d Charles Stockley and Comfort his wife nor but that the writing
obligatory af.d is the deed of the same Richard nor but that he oweth the same
Charles and Comfort the af.d one hundred pounds Currt money of Verg.a of the value
of one hundred and thirty three pounds Currt money of Maryland in manner and
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1737-1738
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