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August Court
1741
155 Att which day here Came the af.d Samuel Handy by his attorney af.d and the sheriffe of Somerset County to witt John Handy Gent now here returned that he had taken the af.d Francis Allen J.r whose body hereat this day he had Ready to answer the af.d Samuel Handy of the af.d Plea as to him it was Commanded And further the said Sheriffe Returned that he had served the af.d Francis with a Copy of the foregoing decleration according to act of assembly in such Case made and provided &.a Whereupon the said Francis Allen at the prayer of the af.d Samuel Handy is adjudged to give Speciall bail to the action af.d Thereupon Came hereinto Court a Certain Cornelius Beavins of Somerset County Planter in his proper person and undertook for the said Francis Allen (Likewise the said Francis Allen present herein Court in his proper person assumed upon himself) that if it should happen that Judgment in the plea af.d should be rendred for the same Samuel Handy against the said Francis Allen or that he the said Francis should be therein Convict that then he the said Francis should pay and Satisfie unto the said Judgment to the prison of the Sheriffe of the County af.d in satisfaction thereof or that he the same Cornelius Beavins will do the same for him &.a And the af.d Francis Allen Jun.r by Francis Allen Sen.r his attorney Cometh and defendeth the force and Injury when &.a and saith that he Cannot deny the action af.d of the af.d Samuel Handy nor but that he did assume upon himself in manner and form as the afd Samuel Handy above against him hath Complained and as to the damage of the same Samuel by him by occasion of the premisses in that part sustained the same Francis saith and acknowledgeth that the af.d Samuel hath sustained damages by occasion of the premisses beyond his Costs and Charges by him about his suit in that part apposed to Fourteen pounds paper money ^maryland Currency^ or Seven pounds Verginia Currency and not more and because the af.d Samuel Denys not this but the same allegations grants to be true prays Judgment for those damages above acknowledged together with his Costs and Charges af.d to him to be adjudged &.a Therefore by Consent of the parties af.d it is Considered that the af.d Samuel Handy Recover against the af.d Francis Allen J.r his damages af.d to the af.d fourteen pounds paper money ^Maryland Currency^ or Seven pounds Verginia Currency by the same Francis in form af.d acknowledged 453 as also Pounds of tobacco for his Costs and Charges af.d to the same Samuel at his Request by the Court now here of the assent of the parties af.d adjudged which |
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