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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1740-1742
Volume 861, Page 17b   View pdf image
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    August Court                       1740                    17

Whereupon the af.d Benjamin Sharp by the assent of the afd Littleton Townsend is discharged by
the Court here from the Committment af.d &.a

                            Therefore it is Considered that the af.d Littleton Townsend Administrator of ^the afd^ Job Sherry
       Recover against the af.d Benjamin Sharp his debt af.d and his damages by Occasion of the detaining
396   of the same debt to                                                                           pounds of tobacco to the
       same Littleton Townsend Administrator as af.d of his assent by the Court here adjudged and the af.d
       Benjamin in Mercy &.a


RH  Jean John and Ann
       Polks
                      ag.t
FA  James Quatermus
    Command was given to the Sheriffe of Somerset County that he Should
take James Quatermus 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 thirty nine to answer unto Jane Polk John Polk and Ann Polk
of a plea of trespass upon the Case &.a  And the same day is given to the af.d Jane John and Ann here &.c

                Att which day here Came the af.d Jane Polk John Polk and Ann Polk by Robert Jenckins Henry their Attorney af.d
the sheriff to witt John Henry Gent now here returned that he had taken the af.d James Quatermus whose body her at this day he
had ready to answer the af.d Jane Polk John Polk and Ann Polk of the af.d plea as to him it was Commanded

                         And the aforesaid Jane John and Ann Complained against the aforesaid James Quatermus of
the aforesaid plea in form following

          Somerset ss  James Quatermus Late of Somerset County planter was attached to answer unto Jean
Polk John Polk and Ann Polk of a plea of trespass upon the Case &a

                   And Whereupon the same Jean John and Ann by Robert Jenckins Henry their Attorney Complains
that whereas the af.d James the first day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred thirty and Eight at Somerset County
af.d was Indebted to the same Jane John and Ann in the sum of Fifteen pounds Current money of Maryland for the like Sum of
money of the same Jean John and Ann and divers other persons to the profit and use of them the said Jean John & Ann by the
af.d James before that time had and received and so thereof Indebted being the said James in Consideration thereof upon himself did
assume and to the same Jean John and Ann then and there faithfully promise that he the said James the af.d fifteen pounds
Current money of Maryland to the af.d Jean John and Ann when thereof he should be requested well and faithfully would pay and
Content  Nevertheless the af.d James his promise and assumption af.d little regarding but minding and fraudulently intending the same
Jean John and Ann in that part Craftily and suttlely to deceive and defraud the af.d Fifteen pounds Current money or any penny
thereof unto the same Jean John & Ann or either of them he hath not paid or in any sort hither^to^ Contented (altho the same to do
the said James afterwards to witt the thirteenth day of may in the year af.d and often since that time at Somerset County af.d by the
Same Jane John and Ann was requested whereupon the same Jane John and Ann say they are the worse & have damage to
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