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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1740-1742
Volume 861, Page 165   View pdf image
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              August Court                               1741                165

    Speciall bail to the action af.d &.a
                                                                Thereupon Came hereinto Court a Certain Elijah
    Brittingham of Somerset County Planter in his proper person and undertook for the said Seward
Tomlinson (Likewise the said Seward Tomlinson 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
Joseph Houston against the said Seward Tomlinson or that he the said Seward should be therein
Convict that then he the said Seward should pay and Satisfie unto the said Joseph Houston 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 Elijah Brittingham will
do the same for him &.a

                Whereupon the af.d Seward Tomlinson puts in his place Robert Jenckins Henry Gent
attorney at Law against the af.d Joseph Houston of the af.d plea

                And thereupon at the Request of the parties af.d day is to them now here given untill
Next Court to be held at dividing Creek in and for the County af.d the third tuesday of June then next
Following in the same state as at present saveing to the parties af.d &.a

         Att which day here Came againe as well the af.d Joseph Houston as the af.d Seward Tomlinson
by their attorneys af.d  And hereupon the said Joseph Houston declared against the af.d Seward
Tomlinson in the plea af.d in form Following              Somerset ss   Saward Tomlinson Late of
Somerset County Planter otherwise Called Seward Tomlinson of Somerset County in the province of
Maryland Planter was summoned to answer unto Joseph Houston of a plea that he Render unto
him forty pounds Currt money of maryland in silver or whole Gold or eighty pounds paper money of
Maryland which to him he owes and unjustly detains &.a

          And Whereupon the Joseph by George Douglas his attorny says that whereas the said
Seward on the viij day of January Anno Dom MDCCXXXix at the County af.d by his Certain writing
Obligatory which the said Joseph sealed with the seal of the ^said^ Seward herein Court brings whose date
is the day and year af.d did acknowledge himself to be held and firmly bound to the said Joseph
in the said forty pounds Currt money of maryland in Silver or whole Gold or eighty pounds paper
money af.d to be paid to the said Joseph when he the said Seward should afterwards be thereto Required
and for the faithfull payment thereof did bind himself his heirs Exrs and Adm.rs by that writing obligatory
Nevertheless the said Seward the said forty pounds in Silver or whole Gold or the said eighty pounds
paper money or any part of either of the said Sums to the said Joseph hath not Rendred but the same to
                                                                                                                                                    him


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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1740-1742
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