Courtesy of John Bonnell:
Transcription of Middlesex Court Case #1532 (1764): Reed and Pettit vs. Bonnell
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Middlesex Common Pleas
Andrew Reed & }
Charles Pettit } Alias Case
ag’st } Debt
Samuel Bonnell } £ 38.14
Stockton Att’y
Ret’ble to Janry Term 1764
Cepe Corpus in Custodia
Jas Brooks Shf
Mileage 5/
Middlesex County lo 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 Comand you as We have heretofore Commanded you that you take Samuel Bonnell otherwise called Samuel Bonnell of Windsor in the County of Middlesex & Province of New Jersey Innholder if he may be found within your Bailwick & him safely keep so that you may have his Body before our Judges of our inferior Court of Comon Pleas at Perth Amboy in & for our s’d County of Middlesex on the third Tuesday in January next to answer unto Andrew Reed & Charles Pettit in a Plea that he render unto then thirty eight Pounds fourteen Shillings lawful Money of the Province of New Jersey which to them he owes & from them unjustly detains as is said and have you then there this Writ Witness James Neilson Esq’r Judge of our s’d Court at Perth Amboy af’d the eleventh Day of October in the third year of our Reign.
Stockton Att’y Smyth Clk
Sam’l Bonel }
adj } Bail
And’w Reed }
& Cha’s Petit }
filed Janry 18th 1764
New Jersey }
lo Of the Term of January in the Year of our lord
Middlesex } 1764
Middlesex Lo Sam’l Bonnel otherwise called Samuel Bonnell of the County of Middlesex is delivered to bail upon the taking of his Body (viz) unto Charles Hartippe of the County of Middlesex Yeoman and Richard roe of the same County Yoeman at the Suit of Andrew Read and Charles petit in a plea of Debt
Taken and acknowledged this
17th January 1764
Ja Neilson
Middlesex County } of the Term of January in the fourth year of the Reign of our Sovereign
Court of Comon Pleas } Lord King George the third King
Middlesex Js Samuel Bonnell otherwise called Samuel Bonnell of Windsor in the County of Middlesex & province of New Jersey Inn holder was summoned to answer unto Andrew Reed & Charles Pettit in a Plea that he render unto them thirty eight Pounds fourteen Shillings lawful Money of the Province of Pennsylvania equal to thirty eight Pounds fourteen Shillings current proclamation Money of New Jersey which to them he owes & from them unjustly detains & And Whereupon the s’d Andrew Reed & Charles Pettit by Richard Stockton their Attorney say that whereas the s’d Samuel the nineteenth Day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & sixty one at Perth Amboy in the County of Middlesex af’d & within the Jurisdiction of this Court by his certain Bill obligatory which the s’d Samuel sealed bring here into Court whose Date is the same Day & year acknowledged himself to owe & promised to pay unto them the s’d Andrew Reed & Charles Pettit the just & full sum of nineteen Pounds seven Shillings like Money af’d on or before the twentieth Day of December then next ensuing the Date of the same Bill with lawful Interest for the payment thereof the s’d Samuel did bind himself his Hiers Executors Administrators & every of them in the Af’d thirty eight Pounds fourteen Shillings And the s’d Andrew & Charles in Fact say that the s’d Samuel id not on or before the twentieth Day of December af’d pay to them the s’d Andrew & Charles the s’d nineteen Pounds seven Shillings which upon the Day he ought to have paid them according to the Form & Effect the s’d Bill whereby an Action hath accrued to the s’d Andrew & Charles to demand & have of the s’d Samuel the s’d thirty eight Pounds fourteen Shillings Nevertheless the s’d Samuel altho often required & the af’d thirty eight Pounds fourteen Shillings unto them the s’d Andrew & Charles hath not paid but the same to them as yet to pay hath altogether refused & still doth refuse to the Damage of the s’d Andrew Reed & Charels Pettit ten Pounds And thereof they bring suit
Rich’d Stockton Att’y Querentitus
Middlesex Andrew Reed & Charles Pettit put in their Place Richard Stockton their Attorney against Samuel Bonnel al’s dect’s & cina Plea of Debt
I Samuel Bonnell of Windsor in the County of Middlesex & Province of New Jersey Innholder do owe & prmise to pay to Andrew Reed & Charles Pettit of the City of Philad’a Merchants the just & full Sum of nineteen Pounds seven Shillings lawful Money of the Province of Pennsylvania on or before the twentieth Day of December next ensuing the Date hereof with lawful Interest to which Payment I bind my Self my Heirs Executors Admin’rs & every of them in the penal Sum of thirty eight Pounds fourteen Shillings Money af’d In Witness whereof I have how unto set my Hand & Seal the nineteenth Day of September Anno Domini one throusand seven hundred & sixty one ~
Sealed and Delivered } Sam’ll Bonnell
in the Presence of }
Middlesex Comon Pleas
Janry Term 1764
Andrew Reed & }
Charles Pettit } Decl’n
ag’st } in
Samuel Bonnell } Debt
filed 24 March 1764
Smyth Clk
I hereby certify that on this 24 day of March 1764 I rec’d a copy of the decl’n in this cause with a copy of the rule to pleas thereon indors’d Wittness my hand
Ja’s Brooks Shf
