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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1740-1742
Volume 861, Page 253b   View pdf image
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                      March Court                                       1741                    253

Allen of a plea that he render him six pounds sterling which to him he owes and unjustly detains &c and the same
day is given to the af.d Robert here &c

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

                And hereupon at the prayer of the af.d Robert Allen the af.d James Townsend is adjudged to give speciall bail to the
action af.d          Thereupon a Certain Charles Dickerson of Somerset County planter present herein Court in his proper
person undertook for the said James Townsend (Likewise the said James Townsend present herein Court in his proper
person assumed upon himself that if it should happen that Judgment in the plea af.d should be rendred for the same Robert
Allen against the same James Townsend or that he the same James Townsend should be therein Convict that then he the said
James Townsend should pay and satisfie unto the said Robert Allen 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
Charles Dickerson will do the same for him &c

                And hereupon the said Robert Allen declared against the af.d James Townsend in the plea af.d in form Following

Somerset s.t /   James Townsend late of Somerset County planter otherwise Called James Townsend was summoned
to answer unto Robert Allen of a plea that he render him six pounds sterling money which to him he oweth and unjustly
detains &c
                                  And Whereupon the said Robert by Geo Douglas his Attorney says that whereas the said James on the
seventeenth day of November anno Dom MDCCXLI at the County af.d by his Certain writing obligatory which the said
Robert Allen sealed with the seal of the said James hereinto Court brings whose date is the day and year af.d did acknowledge
himself to be held and firmly bound to the said Robert in the sum of six pounds sterling to be paid to the said Robert when
he should be afterwards thereto required  Nevertheless the said James the said sum of six pounds sterling to the said Robert
hath not rendred but that to doe hitherto hath denyed and still doth deny and unjustly detain altho' thereto afterwards to witt
the first day of march last past at the County af.d and often since that time by the said Robert required to the damage of
the said Robert and thereof he brings suit &c                                                                     Pledg.s &.c J Doe  R Roe

          And the af.d James Townsend by William Arbuckle his Attorney Comes and defends the force and Injury
when &c and saith that he Cannot deny the action af.d of the af.d Robert Allen nor Can he say but that the Writing
obligatory af.d is his deed nor but that he owes the same Robert Allen the af.d Six pounds sterling money in manner and
form as the af.d Robert Allen above against him hath declared &c

                            Therefore it is Considered that the af.d Robert Allen recover against the aforesaid James Townsend
his debt aforesaid and his damages by Occasion of the detention of hte same debt to Two hundred and Ninety Six
                                                                                                                                                                     pounds


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