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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1737-1738
Volume 859, Page 285   View pdf image
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        June Court                   1738                 285

Creek in the same County the third Tuesday of June anno Dom One thousand seven
hundred and thirty seven to answer unto John Dennis Jun.r of a plea of trespass upon
the Case &a and the same day is given to the afd John here &.a

    Att which day here Came the afd John Dennis Jun.r 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 William Melvin whose body here at this day he had
ready to answer the afd John Dennis Jun.r of the afd plea as to him it was Commanded

       Whereupon at the prayer of the afd John Dennis Jun.r the afd William Melvin is
adjudged here to give Special Bail to the action afd  Thereupon a Certain Robert
Melvin of Somerset County planter present here in Court in his proper person undertook
for the same William Melvin and assumed upon himselfe (LIkewise the
same William Melvin present herein 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 John against him the Same William or that the Same William Should be therein
Convict that then he the said William should pay and Satisfie unto the same John 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 thereto remain untill the Same Judgm.t should
be fully satisfied or that he the Same Robert Melvin will do the same for him

          And hereupon the said John Dennis Jun.r declared against the afd William Melvin
in the plea afd in form following      Somerset ss.t   William Melvin Late of Somerset
County planter was attached to answer unto John Dennis Jun.r of a plea of trespass
upon the Case &a            And whereupon the said John Dennis Jun.r by George
Douglas his attorney Complains that whereas the af.d Whereas the aforesaid William
on the tenth day of October Anno MDCCXXXvij at the County af.d on Consideration
that he the said John at the Especiall Request of the said William did then and there
agree and promise to pay to the said William the sum of thirty shillings Current money
of Maryland for Every month that he should sail in a sloop or sea Vessell of the said
John Called ^the^ Pokomoke from Pokomoke River in the County af.d to Sassafras River
in Somerset County af.d and take sufficient care of all such tobacco's or their
Marchandise as should be put on board the said sloop by the said John or any other
person by his permission or order he the said William on Consideration thereof upon
                                                                                                                himselfe


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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1737-1738
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