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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1740-1742
Volume 861, Page 252b   View pdf image
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        March Court                   1741                                       252

above against him hath declared &a
                                                                Therefore it is Considered that the aforesaid John Henry Recover against
the aforesaid John Nicholson his debt aforesaid and his damages by occasion of the detention of the same debt to
265   Two hundred and Eighty Eight                              pounds of tobacco to the same John Henry of his assent by
the Court here adjudged and the aforesaid John Nicholson in Mercy &c


RH  GD  John Woolford
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WA  Sarah Staples admrx
     of James Staples
      Command was given to the Sheriffe of Sommerset County that he Should
Take the said Sarah Staples late of Somerset County spinster admrx of all and singular
the goods Chattles and Credits which were of James Staples Late of Somerset County
deceased who dyed intestate as is said if she should be found in his bailywick and her should
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 one to answer unto John
Woolford of a plea of trespass upon the Case &c  and the same day is given to the af.d John here &c

                      Att which day here Came the af.d John Woolford by his Attorney af.d and the sheriffe to witt John Handy
Gent now here returned that he had taken the af.d Sarah Staples whose body here at this day he had ready to answer
the af.d John Woolford of the af.d plea as to him it was Commanded

                   And hereupon the said John Woolford Complained against 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 and Credits which were of James Staples late of Somerset County dec.d who dyed intestate as his said ^was attached^
to answer unto John Woolford of a plea of trespass upon the Case &c

                      And Whereupon the same John by Robert Jenckins Henry his Attorney Complains that whereas
the af.d James in his lifetime the tenth day of may in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and thirty &
Eight was Indebted unto the same John in the sum of Seven pounds six shillings and three pence Curr.t money of the
province of Maryland for divers good wares and merchandizes to the af.d James in his life time by the same John
sold and delivered and so thereof Indebted being the af.d James then and there faithfully promise to pay to the same
John the af.d seven pounds ^six^ shillings and three pence when thereof afterwards he should be required  Nevertheless the af.d
James in his life time his promise and assumption af.d little regarding but minding and fraudulently intending
the same John in that part Craftily and Suttlely to deceive and defraud the af.d seven pounds six shillings and
three pence in his lifetime according to his promise and assumption af.d hath not paid but the af.d James in
his life time and the said Sarah after the death of the same James to whom administration of all and
singular the goods Chattles rights and Credits which were of the af.d James at the time of his death at Somerset
County by Nehemiah King Gent Deputy Comissary of the said County in due form of Law was
                                                                                                                               Committed


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