Archives of Maryland, Volume 0861, Page 0075d - Somerset County Judicial Records, 1740-1742

Somerset County Judicial Records, 1740-1742

          March Court                     1740                          75

provided the said John Holt became Chargeable to pay to the said John Wildman the said Sum of money According
to the tenor of the af.^d note and so being Chargeable the af.^d John Holt in Consideration thereof afterwards to witt on the
af.^d Eleventh day of December in the year seventeen hundred and forty above said at the County of Somerset af.^d upon himself
did assume and to the said John Wildman then and there did faithfully promisse that he the said John Holt the af.^d Sum of
money according to the tenor of the said note to the said John Wildman he would well and faithfully pay and Content
Nevertheless the said John Holt his promise and assumption af.^d in manner and forme af.^d made nothing regarding but
plotting and fraudulently Intending the said John Wildman in that parte Craftily and Subtilly to deceive and defraud the
af.^d Sum of money to the said John Wildman according to the tenor of the said note hath not paid or Contented altho' the
same to do the said John Holt by the said John Wildman on the af.^d Eleventh day of December in the year Seventeen hundred
and Forty af.^d and often afterwards at Somerset County af.^d he was thereunto requested but the same to him hitherto to pay
or Content hath refused and still doth refuse and deny to the damage of the said John Wildman of thirty two pounds tenn
shillings Current money of Maryland and thereupon he brings Suit &^c                           Pledg.^s &.^c J: Doe R Roe

    A Copy of the foregoing declaration was made and sent to be served on the deft in order for a speady Tryall   Att
which day here Came the af.^d John Wildman by his attorney af.^d and the sheriffe to witt John Handy Gent now here returned
that he had taken the af.^d John Holt whose body here at this day he had ready to answer the af.^d John Wildman of the
af.^d plea as to him it was Commanded   And further the said sheriffe returned that he had served the af.^d John Holt with
a Copy of the foregoing declaration According to Act of Assembly in such Case made and provided &^c

And the af.^d John Holt in his proper person Cometh and defendeth the force and Injury when &^c and saith that he Cannot
deny the Action af.^d of the af.^d John Wildman nor but that he did assume upon himself in manner and form as the af.^d
John Wildman above against him hath Complained and as to the damage of the same John Wildman by him by Occasion
of the premisses in that part sustained the same John Holt saith and Acknowledgeth that the af.^d John Wildman hath
Sustained damages by Occasion of the premisses beyond his Costs and Charges by him by about his suit in that part apposed
to Sixteen pounds Five shillings and not more and because the af.^d John Wildman denys not this but the same Allegation
grants to be true prays Judgment for those damages above Acknowledged together with his Costs and Charges af.^d to him to be
adjudged &^c
                      Therefore by Consent of the parties af.^d it is Considered that the af.^d John Wildman recover against the af.^d John
Holt his damages af.^d to the af.^d Sixten pounds Five shillings by the same John Holt in form af.^d Acknowledged as also
413                                                                      pounds of tobacco for his Costs and Charges af.^d to the same John Wildman
at his request by the Court now here of the Assent of the parties af.^d Adjudged which Certain damages in the whole amounts to
Sixteen pounds Five shillings and                                                                                       pounds of tobacco and the af.^d John
Holt in mercy &^c               Whereupon the said John Wildman present here in Court freely releaseth unto the afd John Holt
ten pounds parcell of the aforesaid sixteen pounds five shillings in form afd Confessed          Therefore the same John
Holt of the Same Tenn pounds be quiet &^c

FA Thomas Ennalls
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Pse Joseph Lewis

Command was given to the sheriffe of Somerset County that he should take Joseph Lewis late
of Somerset County planter if he should be found in his bailywick and him should safe keep so
that

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