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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1740-1742
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              August Court                                    1740                        4

GD  Franciss Harper et uxor
                       ag.t
WA  James Knight Executor of
Aaron Jordine
     Command was given to the Sheriffe of Somerset County that he should take James Knight
Late of Somerset County planter Executor of the testament and Last will of Aaron Jordine Late of Somerset
County Carpenter deceased 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 August Anno Dom one thousand seven hundred and sixty Nine to
answer unto Francis Harper and Mary his wife of a plea of trespass upon the Case &.c and the same day is given to the aforesaid
Francis and Mary here &.c

                            Att which day here Came the aforesaid Francis Harper and Mary his wife by George Douglas their attorney
and the sheriffe to wit John Henry Gent now here returned that he had taken the af.d James Knight whose body here at this day he
had ready to answer the aforesaid Francis Harper and Mary his wife of the aforesaid plea as to him it was Commanded

                   Whereupon the aforesaid James Knight puts in his place William Arbuckle Gent attorney at Law against
the aforesaid Francis Harper and Mary his wife of the afd Plea

             And thereupon at the request of the parties aforesaid day is to them now here given untill next Court to be
held at dividing Creek the third Tuesday of November then next following in the same State as at present saving to the
parties aforesaid
                               Att which day here Came againe the parties aforesaid by their attorneys aforesaid  And hereupon
the said Francis Harper and Mary his wife Complained against the aforesaid James Knight in the plea afd in form following
Somerset ss  James Knight late of Somerset County planter Executor of the testament and Last will of Aaron Jordine
Late of Somerset County Carpenter deceased was attached to answer unto Francis Harper and Mary his wife of a plea of trespass
upon the Case &a
                            And whereupon the said Francis and Mary by George Douglas their attorney Complain that whereas
the said Aaron Jordine in his lifetime to wit on the Eleventh day of Aprill Anno Dom MDCCXXXvij at the County af.d
was Indebted to the said Mary when she was able in the sum of five pounds sixteen shillings and Eight pence Current
money of Maryland for Sundry matters and things properly Chargeable in Account as by an account thereof here to
annexed may appear and so being thereof Indebted on Consideration thereof afterwards to wit the day and year last aforesaid
at the County af.d upon himself did assume and to the said Mary when sole faithfully promise that he the said Aaron the
said five pounds sixteen shillings and Eight pence to the said Mary would when thereto afterwards required would pay and
Content and altho the said Aaron in his life did pay of the said sum the sum of one pounds one shilling and two pence money af.d
or the value thereof  Nevertheless as to four pounds fifteen shillings and six pence residue of the said five pounds sixteen
shillings and Eight pence the said Aaron in his life and the said James Ex.r of the said Aaron since his death the promise of
the said Aaron in form af.d made not regarding but minding and fraudulently intending the said Mary when sole and the
said Francis and Mary since Espousals between them Celebrated in that part to deceive and defraud the said Aaron in his
life the said residue to the said Mary or the said Francis and Mary did not pay and the said James Since the death of the
said Aaron the same to the said Mary or Francis and Mary hath not paid or them or either of them for the same in any Sort
Contented but that to doe the said Aaron in his life and the said James Since the death of the said Aaron have altogether
                                                                                                                                                         refused


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