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March Court Anno Domini 1747
(405) Given under my hand this 3.d day of February 1747 To the Clerk of Rob.t Hanson Charles County Whereupon It was Commanded the sheriff that of the Goods Chattles and Credits of the afs.d John Macdonald in his Bailywick being he should attach as well the sum of four Hundred and forty Pounds of Tobacco Damages as five Hundred Pounds of Tobacco for Costs that had accrued and that further should accrue in Prosecution of the Premises and when the same he had attached or any Part thereof that he should have it before the Justices of the Lord Proprietary of his Next County Court to be held at Charles Town on the Second Tuesday in March Next then and there to be Condemned according to Law to and for the use of the said Rob.t Unless the said John should Come then and there by himself or Lawfull Attorney and answer unto the said Robert of a plea of Trespass upon the Case and that by Good and Lawfull men of his Bailywick he should make known to the Person or Persons whose hands he should make the same attachment that he she or they be and appear before the Justices of the said Lord Proprietary at the time and Place afs.d to shew Cause if any he she or they have why the sum in their or any of their hands attached should not be Condemned according to Law and the said Robert have thereof Execution if &C.a and how he should Execute that Writt that he should make Known to the Justices aforesaid at the Time and Place afs.d and that he should have then and there that Writt and the Names of those before whom he should make the same Known &Ca And now here at this day to wit the second Tuesday in March afs.d Comes the said Robert by Jeremiah Chase his attorney and offers himself against the said Robert in the plea afs.d and the sheriff afs.d Returns to the Court here the writt afs.d thus Indorsed Vizt Charles County ss.t I hereby Certify to the worshipfull the Justices within mentioned that by Virtue of the within Writt to me Directed on the 4.th day of February 1747 I attached in the hands of the within Named Robert Gill sundry the Effects of the within Named John Macdonald amounting to Nine Hundred and Ninety pounds of Tobacco as p a schedule of Appraisment thereof hereto annexed appears as I am hereby Command So answers Tho.s Hungerford she Charles County ss.t Wee the subscribers being Legally Summoned and sworn to Appraise the goods of John Macdonald Late of the County abovesaid for the use of Robert Gill by Virtue of an attachment by him Laid do appraise the same as follows Viz.t
Samuel Chunn (SS) James X Dooley (SS) mark his Daniel Murphy (SS) Justinian I Cooksey (SS) mark |
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