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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1740-1742
Volume 861, Page 202   View pdf image
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    November Court                           1741                                202

hundred and forty Seven
                                            Pounds of tobacco for his Costs and Charges af.d to the same
Robert at his Request by the Court now here of the assent of the parties af.d Adjudged which
325   Certain Damages in the whole amounts to Seven pounds Currt money of maryland and three hundred
and forty Seven                  Pounds of tobacco and the af.d Richard in mercy &.a


GD  Ambross Willet etuxor
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WA RH  Peter Claywell J.r & Shadrach
Claywell
      Command was given to the sheriffe of Somerset County that he should take

Peter Claywell Jun.r late of Somerset County planter and Shadrach Claywell
late of Somerset County planter if they should be found in his bailywick and them
should safe keep so that he might have their bodys before the Justices of his Lordships County Court of Somerset
to be held at dividing Creek the third Tuesday of March Anno Dom one thousand seven hundred and forty one to
answer unto Ambross Willett and ruth his wife of a plea of trespass upon the Case &c and the same day is given to the
af.d Ambross and Ruth here &c

                            Att which day here Came the af.d Ambross Willett and Ruth his wife by George Douglas his Attorney
and the sheriffe to witt John Handy Gent now here returned that he had taken the af.d Peter Claywell and Shadrach
Claywell whose body here at this day he had ready to Answer the af.d Ambross Willett and Ruth his wife of the af.d
plea as to him it was Commanded

                Whereupon the af.d Peter and Shadrach Claywell puts in their place William Arbuckle Gent Attorney
at Law against the af.d Ambross Willett and Ruth his wife 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 &c

                         Att which day here Came again as well the af.d Ambross Willett and Ruth his wife as the af.d Peter
and Shadrach Claywell by their Attorneys af.d and hereupon the said Ambross Willett and Ruth his wife Complained
of the af.d Peter and Shadrach Claywell in the plea af.d in form Following Somerset ss  Peter Claywell Junr late
of Somerset County planter and Shadrach Claywell late of Somerset County planter were attached to answer unto
Ambross Willet and Ruth his wife of a plea of trespass upon the Case &c

                      And Whereupon the said Ambrose and Ruth by Geo Douglas their Attorney Complain that whereas
the said Ruth is an honest and peaceable Subject of our Lord the King that now is and as an honest and peaceable
Subject of the said King and his progenitors from her nativity hitherto herself hath demeaned and behaved free and
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