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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1740-1742

November Court 1741 223

1741

May y.^e 22

29

June 11

13

D.^r Nathaniel Jackson

To 1 hundred Double tens
To 1 hundred Single Do
To 1 Barrel of Tar
To 2 days in fetching of it
To 10 feet of oak plank
To 1 buckit 2^s/ to 1 pump box 1/6
To 250 pump Nails and pump Leather
To 196^ll of Cable at 1^£/10^s p H^d
To Carting
To Ship Carpenders work
To 11 days my Tendance @ 2^s/6
To 8 days Joshua Mitchell @ 2/6
To 3 mens diot and Lodging 10 days

Errors Excepted p me Jn.^o Horsey

£ s d
0.. 2..6
0.. 1..3
0..15..0
0.. 5..0
0.. 1..0
0.. 3..6
0.. 3..6
2..18..9
0.. 8..0
2..13..9
1.. 7..6
1.. 0..0
0..15..0
10..14..9

And the af.^d Nathaniel Jackson present herein
Court in his proper person at the prayer of the af.^d
John Horsey is adjudged to give Special bail to the
action af.^d Thereupon Came here into Court a
Certain Thomas Lambden of Somerset County planter
and undertook for the said Nathaniel Jackson (Likewise
the said Nathaniel Jackson present herein Court in his
proper person and Assumed upon himself that if it
should happen that Judgment in the plea af.^d should be
rendred for the same John Horsey against the said Nathaniel
Jackson or that he the said Nathaniel Jackson should be
therein Convict that then he the said Nathaniel Jackson
should pay and satisfie unto the said John Horsey 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 said Thomas
Lambden will doe the Same for him &c

                   And Whereupon the said Nathaniel Jackson by Francis Allen his attorney Comes and defends
the force and Injury when &^a and prays Leave thereof to Imparle here untill next Court to be held at dividing
Creek in and for the County af.^d the third Tuesday of November then next Following and he hath it and the same day is
given to the af.^d John here also &^c

                   Att which day here Came again as well the af.^d John Horsey as the af.^d Nathaniel Jackson by their attorneys
af.^d and hereupon the said John Horsey prays that the af.^d Nathaniel Jackson to his declaration af.^d may answer but
the said Nathaniel ^afterwards^ at the same day altho' Solemnly Called Came not nor ^thereof saith^ nothing in barr or preclusion of the action af.^d of the
af.^d John by which the same John Remaineth thereof against him undefended &^c for which reason the af.^d John his
damages against the af.^d Nathaniel ought to recover but because it is not known unto his Lordships Justices here what Damages
the af.^d John hath Sustained by Occasion of the non performance of the promise and assumption af.^d in this part sustained &^a

             Therefore Command is to the sheriffe of the County af.^d that by the Oath of honest and Lawfull men of his bailywick
he deligently Inquire what Damages the af.^d John Horsey has sustained as well by Occasion of the non performance of ^the promise^ and assumption
af.^d as for his Costs and Charges by him about his suit in that part expended and the Inquisition which thereupon he takes to his Lordships
Justices at the next Court to be held at dividing Creek the third Tuesday of March then next Following under his seal and the seals
of them by whose Oath he takes that same Inquisition he send together with the writt thereof to him directed and the same
day is given to the af.^d John there &^c

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