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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1740-1742
Volume 861, Page 73b   View pdf image
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                     March Court                               1740                        73

       according to Law as wittness our hands this seventeenth day of March Anno Dom 1740/1
                                                                                                                                  John Woolford
                                                                                                                                  Joseph Gilliss


GD:  George Gale
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Pse:  William King
     Command was given to the sheriffe of Somerset County that he should take William
King late of Somerset County Inholder if he should be found in his bailywick and him should
safe keep so that he might have his body before the Justices of his Lordships County Court of
Somerset to be held at dividing Creek in the same County the third Tuesday of March Anno Dom one thousand seven
hundred and forty to answer unto George Gale of a plea of trespass upon the Case &c and the same day is given ^to^ the af.d George
here &c   And the said George Gale declared against the af.d William King in the plea af.d in form following

Somerset ss.t   William King late of Somerset County Inholder was attached to Answer unto George Gale of a plea of
trespass upon the Case &a    And Whereupon the said George Gale by George Douglas his Attorney Complains that
whereas the said William on the first day of January Anno Dom MDCCxxxix at the County af.d was Indebted
to the said George Gale in the sum of Eleven pounds nine shillings and Eight pence Curr.t money of Maryland for sundry
matters and things properly Chargeable in Account as by Account thereof hereto Annexed may appear and so being
thereof Indebted on Consideration thereof the said William afterwards to wit on the day and year last af.d at the County
af.d at the County af.d upon himself did Assume and to the said George Gale then and there faithfully promise that he
the said William the said Eleven pounds nine shillings and Eight pence to the said George Gale when he should be
thereto afterwards required would faithfully pay and Content and altho' the said William King hath not paid to the said
George Gale the sum of Seven pounds five shillings part of the said Eleven pounds nine shillings and Eight pence
Nevertheless as to four pounds four shillings and Eight pence Curr.t money af.d residue of the said Eleven pounds nine
shillings and Eight pence the said William his promise af.d in form af.d made not regarding but minding and fraudulently
intending the said George Gale in that part Craftily and Subtilly to deceive and defraud the said four pounds four
shillings and Eight pence to the said George Gale hath not paid or him for the same in any Sort Contented but that to
do hitherto hath refused and still doth refuse altho' thereto afterwards to witt on the day and year af.d at the County
af.d at the County af.d and often since that time by the said George Gale required whereupon the said George Gale
say he is damnified ten pounds Current money of Maryland and thereof he brings Suit &c
D.r William King to Geo: Gale                                                                                    Pledg.s &c J: Doe R: Roe

May 1737
June 17
To one bed bunt
To 33 Gal.s of Rum @ 5/
To one bed & it Sold for
To 1 pot w.t 50ℓℓ at 4d
To  D.o w.t 30ℓℓ @ 3d
£1..12..6
£8..  5..0
        8
      16..8
        7..6
£11..9..8
By money pd
Febry 14 1737 By Do pd

                                        Ball Due

Errors Excepted p Geo: Gale
 Cr
    £  1..5..0
        6        
    £  7 ..5..
    £  4..4..8
    £11..9..8
A Copy of the foregoing declaration was made and sent to be served on the deft for a speady tryall    Att which day here
Came the af.d George Gale by his Attorney af.d and the sheriffe to witt John Handy Gent now here returned that he had
taken the af.d William King whose body here at this day he had ready to Answer the af.d George Gale of the af.d plea as to
                                                                                                                                                                               him


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