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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1737-1738
Volume 859, Page 76b   View pdf image
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    June Court                1737                76

and who neither &c to recognize &c because as well &c and the same day is given to the parties afd here &c
and the Jurors of that Same Jury by Joseph McClester Gent Sheriffe of the County afd to this Impannelled
being Called Came to witt Thomas Dixon James Nairne Thomas Williams Jun.r Robert Mitchell Solomon Long
John Webb Francis Crowder William Jones Joseph Gillis William Fasit Thomas Perkins William McClemmey
who to Say the truth of the premisses afd being duely Elected tryed & Sworn upon their Oath do Say
that the afd Thomas Tate in his Life time did assume upon himselfe in manner and form as the afd
Benjamin Hayman above against her hath Complained and assessed the damages of the same Benj.a
by Occasion of the non performance of the promise and assumption afd beyond his Costs and Charges by
him about his suit in that part apposed to three pounds Seven Shillings and Eleven pence Curr.t money
of Maryland and for those Costs and Charges to One pound of tobacco

          Therefore it is Considered that the afd Benjamin Hayman Recover against the afd Mary Tate
Exrx of the same Thomas Tate dec.d the damages afd by the Jurors afd in form afd assesses as also Six hundred
640   and Sixty two                              pounds of tobacco for his Costs and Charges afd to the same Benjamin
by the Court here of his assent ^of Increases^ adjudged which same damages in the whole do amount to three pounds seven shill.s
and Eleven pence Curr.t money of maryland & Six hundred and Sixty three                                          pounds of
tobacco to be Levied of the goods and Chattells which were of the afd Thomas Tate at the time of his death in the
hands of the afd Mary remaining to be adminstred if so much thereof in her hands she hath and if so much
she hath not than the Costs and Charges afd to be Levied of the proper goods and Chattells of the same Mary
and the afd defend.t in mercy &c


GD  John Darby
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RH Whittington Johnson
     Command was given to the Sheriffe of Somerset County to that
he should take Whittington Johnson Late of Somerset County planter
if he should be found in his bailywick and him should safe keep so that he
should have his body before the Justices of his Lordships County Court of Somerset to be held at dividing
Creek the third Tuesday of November Anno Dom One thousand Seven hundred and thirty Six to answer
unto John Darby of a plea of trespass upon the Case &c and that thereof he should not fail &c

       Att which day here before the Justices of his Lordships County Court of Somerset at dividing Creek
Came the said John Darby by the af George Douglas his attorney and the Sheriffe of the same County
to witt Joseph McClester Gent at the same day here returned that he had taken the afd Whittington
Johnson whose body here at this day he had ready to answer unto the afd John Darby of the aforesaid
Plea as to him it was Commanded         Whereupon a Certain William Gray of Nanticoke hundred
in sumerset County planter present herein Court in his proper person before the Justices afd undertook
for the said Whittington Johnson and assumed upon himselfe Likewise the Same Whittington Johnson
                                                                                                                                              present


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