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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1737-1738
Volume 859, Page 254   View pdf image
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       March Court                   1737                     254

Creek the third Tuesday of November Ann Dom one thousand seven hundred and thirty seven
to answer unto Duncan Murray of a plea of trespass upon the Case &.a and the same day is given to the afd
Duncan here &.a      Att which day here Came the afd Duncan Murray by George Douglas his attorney
and the Sheriffe of Somerset County to witt John Henry Gent at the same day here returned that he
had Taken the afd Charles Rackliffe whose body here at this day he had ready to answer the
afd Duncan Murray of the afd plea as to him it was Commanded

          Whereupon at the prayer of the afd Duncan Murray the afd Charles Rackliff is
adjudged to give Special Bail to the action afd   Thereupon a Certain John Burton late
of Somerset County planter present herein Court in his proper person undertook for the said
Charles Rackliffe and assumed upon himselfe (Likewise the said Charles Rackliffe present
here in Court in his proper person assumed upon himselfe) that if it should happen that
Judgment in the plea afd should be rendered for the Same Duncan Murray against him
the said Charles Rackliffe or that he the said Charles should be thereof Convict that then he
the said Charles should pay and satisfie unto the said Duncan the Judgment of the Court
thereupon or render his body in Execution of such Judgment to the prison of the Sheriffe of
the County afd in Satisfaction thereof or that he the said John Burton will do the same
for him      And whereupon the said Charles puts in his place Francis Allen Gent against the
afd Duncan in the afd plea whereupon at the request of the parties afd day is to them here
given to be before his Lordships Justices at the next Court to be held at dividing Creek the
third tuesday of March then next following in the Same state as at present saving to the
parties aforesaid &a
                                  Att which day here Came againe the parties afd by their attorneys
aforesaid and the afd Duncan Murray who brings the writt afd against the afd Charles Rackliffe
in the plea afd doth not further prosecute his same writt
                                                                                                    Therefore he and his pledges
of prosecuting be in mercy and Lett the plft name pledges &a and that the afd Charles Rackliffe
goe thereof without day  Also it is Considered that the afd Charles Rackliffe recover against the afd
Duncan Murray his damages by occasion of the premisses to
207                              pounds of tobacco to the Same Charles by discretion of the Justices here at his request
for his Costs and Charges in that part Sustained according to the form of a Statute thereof made and provided
by the Court here adjudged


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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1737-1738
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