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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1740-1742
Volume 861, Page 113b   View pdf image
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          June Court                  1741            113

    of Indian Corn when he should be afterwards thereto required he would faithfully pay and Content
    Nevertheless the said Patrick his promise af.d in form af.d made not regarding but minding
and fraudulently Intending the said Levin in that part Craftilly and subtilly to deceive and defraud
the said thirty Shillings to be discharged as above mentioned and the said twenty four bushells of
Indian Corn or any part thereof to the said Levin hath not paid or him for the same in any sort
hetherto Contented but that to doe altogether hath refused and still doth refuse altho' thereto afterwards
to wit the day and year af.d at the County af.d and often since that time by the said Levin required
Whereupon the said Levin says he is damnifyed five pounds Currt money of maryland and
thereof he brings suit &.a                                             pledges &.a J: Doe and R: Roe

                      D.r Patrick Kersey to Levin Gale

Decemb.r 6.th
   1740
 To a Razor
To a pocket knife and fork
To a Linnen Handkerchief
To a worsted Capp
To 4 Bushells of salt
 £00..  2..  0
          1..  8
          3..  0
          3... 4
£  1..  0..  0
£  1..10..00
These articles to be discharged in Indian
Corn @ twenty pence p Bushell

Decem.br 13.th 1740      To your engagement ^in writing to pay^ for Ishmael Davis 24 bushells of Corn
                                                                                                 Errors Excepted p Levin Gale

             A Copy of the foregoing decleration was made and sent to be served on the deft with
the writt in ye plea af.d
                                        Att which day here Came the af.d Levin Gale Esq.r by his attorny
af.d and the sheriffe to witt John Handy Gent now here returned that he had taken the af.d
Patrick Kersey whose body hereat this day he had ready to answer the af.d Levin Gale Esq.r of the
af.d Plea as to him it was Commanded      And further the same sheriffe returned that he served
the af.d Patrick Kersey with a Copy of the foregoing decleration according to act of assembly in
such case made and provided &.a

             Whereupon Came hereinto Court a Certain Patrick Kersey S.r of Somerset County
planter in his proper person and undertook for the said Patrick Kersey (Likewise the said
Patrick Kersey present herein Court in his proper person and assumed upon himself) that if
it should happen that Judgment in the plea af.d should be rendred for the same Levin Gale
against the af.d Patrick Kersey or that he the said Patrick Kersey should be therein Convict
that then he the same Patrick Kersey should pay and satisfie unto the said Levin Gale the
Judgment of the Court thereupon or render his body in execution of such Judgment to the
prison of the sheriffe of the County af.d in satisfaction thereof or that he the same Patrick
Kersey s.r will do the same for him &.a

                                  And the aforesaid Patrick Kersey J.r ^in his proper person^ Comes and defends the force and Injury
when &.a and saith that he Cannot deny the action aforesaid of the aforesaid Levin Gale nor Can he say but that
                                                                                                                                                                   he


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