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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1740-1742
Volume 861, Page 155   View pdf image
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                      August Court                          1741        155

GD:  Samuel Handy
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FA  Francis Allen J.r
                 Command was given to the Sheriffe of Somerset County
that he should take Francis Allen Jun.r Late of Somerset County planter
if he should be found in his bailywick and him ^should^ safe keep so that he might have his body
before the Justices of his Lordships County Court of Somerset to be held at dividing Creek
in the same County the third tuesday of August Anno Dom one thousand seven hundred and
forty one to answer unto Samuel Handy of a plea of trespass upon the Case &.a  and the same day
is given to the af.d Samuel Here &a

             And hereupon the said Samuel Handy Complained against the af.d Francis Allen
Jun.r in the plea af.d in form Following              Somerset ss   Francis Allen Jun.r Late of
Somerset County Planter was attached to answer unto Samuel Handy of a plea of trespass
upon the Case &.a               And Whereupon the said Samuel by George Douglas his
attorney Complains that whereas the said Francis after the first day of May Anno Dom
MDCCV to witt on the xxij day of January Anno Dom MDCCXXiX at the County af.d
did make his Certain note in writing Commonly Called a promisary note with his proper hand
and now thereto subscribed bearing date the day and year last mentioned by which note the
said Francis promised to pay to the said Samuel Handy the sum of fourteen pounds paper
money of maryland or seven pounds Verginia money at or upon the xxij day of Janry next
Ensueing the date of that note for a negroe man Called James for one year by means whereof
and by force of the statute in that Case lately made and provided the said Francis became Chargeable
to pay to the said Samuel the said money in the said note mentioned according to the tenor of that
Note and so being thereof Chargeable on Consideration thereof afterwards to witt the day and year
Last af.d at the County af.d Promised to pay to the said Samuel the said money in the said note
mentioned according to the tenor of that note  Nevertheless the said Francis his promise af.d in form af.d
made not Regarding but minding and fraudulently Intending the said Samuel in that part Craftilly to
deceive the said money or any part thereof according to the tenor of that note hath not paid but that to
do altogether hath refused and still doth Refuse altho' thereto afterwards to witt the first day of february
Anno Dom MDCCXL at the County af.d and often since that time by the said Samuel Required to the
damage of the said Samuel twenty eight pounds Currt money of maryland and thereof he brings suit &.a
                                                                                                             Pledges &.a J: Doe & R: Roe

    A Copy of the foregoing decleration was made and sent to be served on the deft for a Speedy Tryall
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