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

him to render hath denyed and still doth deny and unjustly detain altho' thereto afterwards to wit on
the XXI day of November Anno Dom MDCCXL at the County af.d and often since that time by the said
Joseph Required Whereupon he says he is damnifyed eighty pounds Currt money of maryland and thereof
he brings suit &.a                                                                  Pledges &.a J Doe and R Roe

                         And the af.d Seward Tomlinson by his attorney af.d Comes and defends the force and
Injury when &.a and says that he is not Indebted to the af.d Joseph the af.d Forty pounds Currt money
of maryland in Silver or whole Gold or eighty pounds paper money of maryland or any penny thereof
in form in which the same Joseph above against him hath declared and of this he puts himself upon
the Country                  And hereupon the said Joseph Houston prays Leave thereof to Imparle hereuntill
Next Court to be held at dividing Creek in and for the County af.d the third tuesday of August then next
Following and he hath it and the same day is given to the af.d Seward here also &.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 Whereupon the said Seward Relinquisheth his Verification ^afd^ by
him above pretended and saith that he Cannot deny the action af.d of the af.d Joseph Houston nor Can he
say but that ^the writing obligatory af.d is the deed of the same Seward nor Can he say but that^ he oweth the same Joseph the af.d forty pounds Currt money of maryland in Silver of or whole
Gold or eighty pounds paper money of maryland in manner and form as the af.d Joseph above against
him hath declared
                                                Therefore it is Considered that the af.d Joseph Houston Recover against
41    the af.d Seward Tomlinson his debt af.d and his damages by occasion of the detention of the same debt to
399   fourteen hundred and fifteen               Pounds of tobacco to the same Joseph of his assent by the Court
here adjudged and the af.d Seward in mercy &.a


FS  Benjamin Warrington
                     ag.t
Ps  James Townsend
      Command was given to the Sheriffe of Sommerset County that he should Take
James Townsend 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 March Anno Dom one thousand seven
hundred and forty to Answer unto Benjamin Warrington of a plea of trespass upon the Case &c and the same day is given to the af.d
Benjamin here &a
                                  Att which day here Came the af.d Benjamin Warrington by Francis Allen his Attorney and the sheriffe (to witt)
John Handy Gent now here returned that he had taken the af.d James Townsend whose body here at this day he had ready to Answer
the af.d Benjamin Warrington of the af.d plea as to him it was Commanded

                Whereupon Came here into Court the af.d James Townsend in his proper person  And thereupon the said James Townsend
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