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Thursday, February 18, 2016

Middlesex Court of Common Please Case 2419 (1766): Brown, Richard v. Wright, Jacob

John Bunnell transcribed the files and provided the images for this court case.






Transcription of Middlesex Court Case #2419 (1766):  Brown, Richard v. Wright, Jacob
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Middlesex Pleas
Richard Brown }
V } fi. fa. debt
Jacob Wright }
July 1766
20th day of Feby 1765
Bill How £ 12:8:4
Jut tile
Costs Faned at £
By virtue of the written writ To me Directed I have Seized and taken Divers goods and Chattels to the value of five Pounds which Remain in my hands unsold for want of Buyers
John Moore Srf.
Middlesex County
George the Third by the Grace of God of great Britain France and Ireland king Defender of the faith.  To our Sheriff of our County of Middlesex Greeting we Command you that of the Goods & Chattels of Jacob Wright Otherwise called Jacob Wright of Winsor Township In the County of Middlesex farmer, In your bailiwick you Cause to be made as well the Sum of Twenty Four Pounds Sixteen Shillings and four pence Proclamation Money which Richard Brown lately Before our Judges of our Inferior Court of Common Pleas held at Perth Amboy in and for our Said County of Middlesex Recovered Against him of Debt, As Also three pounds eight shillings and three pence ---
Money Aforesaid which to him in our Said Court before our Said Judges were Adjudged for his Damages which he hath Sustained, as well by the Occasion of the Detention of that Same Debt, as for his Costs and Charges by him About his Suit in that behalf Expended ---
Whereof the Said Jacob Wright is convicted, as to the ____ of Record, and have you those Moneys before our Said Judges of our said Inferior Court of Common Pleas to be held at Perth Amboy in and for our said County of Middlesex On the Third Tuesday in July – Next, To render the Aforesaid Richard Brown for his Debt and Damages Afd So as Aforesaid Recovered and have you then & there this writ

Witness James Nelsson Esq. Judge of our Said Court at Perth Amboy Aforesaid in the County Aforesaid the fifteenth Day of April in the Sixth year of our Reign



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Middlesex Pleas
Richard Brown } Vend Exp
V } Ca. Sa. ft. Ressidue
Jacob Wright }
October 1766
1765 – 20th Feby Bill
payible with Interest for £ 12:8:4
Interest Tile paid £
Costs £ 3:7:6
Addit D 0:7:6
Non Est
John Moore Sr.

The goods and chattels That Remains In my hands unsold for want of Buyers
John Moore Sr.
County of Middlesex
Fst George the third by the grace of god of Great Britain France and Ireland king Defender of the faith.  To our Sheriff of our County of Middlesex Greeting , Whereas we lately Commanded you that the Goods & Chattels of Jacob Wright otherwise Called Jacob Wright of Windsor Township In the County of Middlesex farmer, You Should Cain to be made as well the Sum of Twenty four Pounds Sixteen Schillings & four pence Proclamation Money Which Richard Brown lately before our Judges of our Inferior Court of Common Please held at Perth Amboy in & for Said County of Middlesex Recovered Against him of Debt and Also Three Pounds Seven Schillings and Six pence --- Money Afd which to him in our Said Court before our Said Judges Were Adjudged for his Damages which he hath Sustained As well by Occasion of the Detention of that Debt as for his Costs and Charges by him About his Suit in that behalf expended Where the said Jacob Wright was as to us Appear of Record, and that you Should have Those moneys before our Said Judges of our Inferior Court of Common Pleas to be held at Perth Amboy in and for our Said County of Middlesex on the Third Tuesday in July then Next, &now part, to render to the Afd Richard Brown for his Debt and Damages Afd, and you that Day Returned to us that by the Virtue of our Writt, To you Directed for that Purpose, you fed Sevyed & taken Divers Goods and Chattels of the Said Jacob Wright Is the Value of five Pounds Part of the Debt and Damages Afd which Goods and Chattels Remain in your hands unsold for want of buyers, So That you Could not have the Moneys before the Day Afd and that he had not anymore Goods and Chattels in your Bailywick Where you Could Caeere to be Levied any more of the moneys Contained in our Writt.  Therefore We Command you that you Expose to Sale the Goods & Chattels Afd of the Said Jacob Wright Taken by you In Manner Afd and have you those Moneys before our Judges of our Inferior Court of Common Pleas to be held at Perth Amboy in and for our Said County of Middlesex on the second Tuesday in October Next, To Render to the Said Richard Brown for part of his Debt and Damages Afd And Also we Command you that You take the Said Jacob Wright if he may be found within your Bailywick and him Safely keep so that you may have his Body before our said Judges of our Said Inferior Court of Common Please to be held at Perth Amboy in and for our Said County of Middlesex on the Second Tuesday in October Next to Satisfie the Said Richard Brown the Sum of Twenty Three Pounds Three Schillings and Ten Pence --- 
Prejudice of the Said Twenty eight Pounds Three Shillings and Ten pence ---
And have you then and there this writt

Witness James Nelsson Esqr Judge or our Said Court at Perth Amboy Afd in the County Afd the sixteenth Day of July in the Sixth Year of our Reign

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