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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1740-1742
Volume 861, Page 258b   View pdf image
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                        March Court                              1741                      258

       Att which day here Came the af.d Patrick Connelly by George Douglas his Attorney and the sheriffe ^of Somerset County^ to witt
John Handy Gent now here returned that he had taken the af.d Hugh Rimmer whose body hereat this day he had ready
to answer the af.d Patrick Connelly of the af.d plea as to him it was Commanded

             Whereupon the af.d Hugh Rimmer being present herein Court at the prayer of the af.d Patrick Connelly is
adjudged to give speciall bail to the action af.d

                   Thereupon a Certain James Billings of Somerset County Gent present herein Court in his proper person
undertook for the said Hugh Rimmer (Likewise the said Hugh Rimmer 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 af.d Patrick Connelly
against the same Hugh Rimmer or that he the same Hugh Rimmer should be therein Convict that then he the said Hugh
Rimmer should pay and satisfie unto the said Patrick Connelly 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
James Billings will do the same for him &c

             Whereupon the af.d Hugh Rimmer puts in his place Robert Jenckins Henry Gent Attorney at Law against the
af.d Patrick Connelly 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 August then next Following ^in^ at the same state as at
present saveing to the parties af.d &c

                         Att which day here Came again as well the af.d Patrick Connelly as the af.d Hugh Rimmer by their attorneys
af.d and hereupon the said Patrick Complained against the af.d Hugh Rimmer in the plea af.d in form Following
Somerset ss/   Hugh Rimmer late of Somerset County planter was attached to answer unto Patrick Connelly of a plea of
trespass upon the Case &c

                                        And Whereupon the said Patrick by Geo Douglas his Attorney Complains that whereas the
said Patrick is a good and honest Subject of our Lord the King that now is and as such from his nativity to this day himself
hath governed and from all fellony stealing theft or receiving of Stolen goods knowing the same to be stolen free Clear
and unspotted by all the time af.d hath remained  Nevertheless the said Hugh not Ignorant of the premisses but plotting
and malitiously intending the said Patrick in his good name af.d to hurt and injure and the said Patrick unjustly to
vex and into the manifest danger of his life imprisonment of his body loss of his goods Corporall punishment of
and fine to the Lord proprietary of this province to make manifestly to endanger and Cause without any probable
or reasonable Cause on the xix day of March June Anno Dom MDCXL at Somerset County af.d before the worshipfull
Robert King Esq.r and his Associates the Right Honourable the said Lord proprietarys Justices to keep the peace for the
said County assigned did procure and Cause an Information in writing to be drawn up and Written against the said Patrick
                                                                                                                                                                      Connelly



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