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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1737-1738
Volume 859, Page 33   View pdf image
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       March Court                 1736                33

hath refused and still doth refuse to the damage of the same Richard three thousand three hundred
pounds of tobacco and one pounds sixteen shillings Curr.t money of Maryland thereupo he bringeth
suit &c                                                                                               Pledges &c  John Doe & R Roe

       And Whereupon the said Joseph M.ccClester in his proper person Comes and defends the force
and Injury when &c and saith that he Cannot deny the action af.d of the af.d Richard Davis nor but
that he did assume upon himself in manner and form as the af.d Richard above against him hath
Complained and as to the damage of the same Richard by him by Occasion of the premisses
in that part sustained the same Joseph saith and Acknowledged that the af.d Richard hath
sustained damages by Occasion of the premises beyond his Cost and Charges by him about his
suit in that part apposed to sixteen hundred and thirty one pounds of tobacco and eighteen
shillings Curr.t money of Maryland and not more and because the af.d Richard denys not this
but the same allegation beleives to be true prays Judgment for those damages above
Acknowledged together with his Costs and Charges af.d to him to be adjudged &c

          Therefore by Consent of the parties af.d it is Considered that the af.d Richard Davies
recover against the af.d Joseph M.ccClester his damages af.d to the af.d sixteen hundred and
thirty one pounds of tobacco and eighteen shillings Curr.t money of Maryland in form af.d
283    acknowledged as also: three hundred & five                                         : pounds of
tobacco for his Cost and Charges af.d to the same Richard at his request by the Court being of
the assent of the parties af.d adjudged which Certain damages in the whole do amount to
Eighteen po shillings Currt Money & Nineteen hundred & thirty Six     : pounds of tobacco and the af.d
Joseph in mercy &c


WG  James Hayes
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WB  The Same
     Command was given to the Coroners of Somerset County that they should
take Joseph Macclester Late of Somerset County Gent if he should be found
in their bailywick and him should safe keep so that they should have his body before the
Justices of his Lordships County Court of Somerset to be held in the Court house at dividing
Creek in the Same County the third Tuesday of november anno Dom One thousand seven hundred
and thirty six to answer unto James Hays of a plea of trespass upon the Case &c and that
thereof they should not fail &c                  Att which day here before the Justices of his Lordships
County Court of Somerset at Dividing Creek Came the afd James Hays by William Goldsborough his attorney
and the Coroners of the same County to witt Henry Ballard & Wm Lane Gent returned that they
had taken the afd Joseph Macclester whose body here at this day they have here ready to answer
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