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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1740-1742
Volume 861, Page 219   View pdf image
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          November Court                           1741                    219

RH    John Woolford
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WA    Sarah Staples Admrx
          of James Staples
     Command was given to the sheriffe of Somerset County that he
should take Sarah Staples Late of Somerset County Spinster
Administratrix of all and Singular the goods ^and^ Chattles which were
           of James Staples at the time of his death who died Intestate &.a  if he shall be found in
your bailywick and her safe keep so that he might have her body 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 to answer unto John Woolford of a plea of trespass
upon the Case &.a  and the same day is given to the af.d John here &.a

                         Att which day here Came the af.d John Woolford by Robert Jenckins Henry his
attorney and the sheriffe to witt John Handy Gent now here Returned that he had taken the af.d Sarah
Staples whose body hereat the day he had ready to answer the af.d John of the af.d plea as to him
it was Commanded
                            Whereupon the af.d Sarah Staples puts in her place William Arbuckle Gent
Attorney at Law against the af.d John Woolford 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 John Woolford as the af.d Sarah Staples
by their attorneys af.d  And hereupon the said John Woolford Complained of the af.d Sarah
Staples in the plea af.d in form Following      Somerset ss      Sarah Staples late of Somerset
County Spinster Administratrix of all and Singular the goods Chattles Rights and Creditts which
were of James Staples at the time of his death who dyed Intestate &.c was attached to answer unto
John Woolford of a plea of trespass upon the Case &.a

                   And Whereupon the same John by Robert Jenckins Henry his attorney Complains
that whereas the af.d James in his Life time to witt he xv day of April in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and forty at Somerset County was Indebted to the af.d John in twenty
and two pounds nineteen shillings and nine pence Currt money of maryland for sundry articles
properly Chargeable in an account as by an account thereof hereinto Court brought may appear
and so thereof Indebted being the af.d James then and there did faithfully promise to pay unto
the same John the af.d twenty two pounds nineteen Shillings and nine pence when thereof
Afterwards he should be requested and altho the said James in his Life time four pounds
Seventeen Shillings part of the said sum of twenty two pounds nineteen shillings and nine
                                                                                                                            Pence


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