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- Kate's writ in ECCP 9/1769 Citation: Kate vs Bridges, September 1769, ECCP Docket No. 15, Massachusetts SJC Archives, Boston, MA
Transcription:To the Sheriff of Our County of Essex his Under-Sheriff or Deputy, Greeting. We Command you to Attach the Goods or Estate of Moody Bridges of Andover in our said County Gentleman to the Value of three Pounds, and for want thereof to take the Body of the said Moody (if he may be found in your Precinct) and him safely keep so that you have him before Our Justices of Our Inferior Court of Common Pleas, next to be holden at Newburyport within and for Our said County of Essex, on the last Tuesday of September current. Then and there in Our said Court to Answer unto Kate, a negro woman of Andover aforesaid Spinster, in a plea of Trespass, for that the said Moody at said Andover on the tenth day of June A.D. seventeen hundred & fifty with force and arms took her the said Kate, held and kept her in Servitude as a Slave in his Service from that day to the third day of September current without any right so to do & did her other injuries against the Peace, and To the Damage of said Kate, as she saith, the Sum of [unclear] Pounds, which shall then and there be made to appear, with other due Damages. And have you there this Writ, with your Doings therein. With Nathaniel Ropes, Esq; at Salem, this sixth Day of September in the eighth Year of Our Reign. Annoqui Domini, 1768. Joseph Bowditch, Esq. [Back] Essex SS September 7 the 1768 By virtue of this writ I have attached a hatt of the within named Moody Bridges and at the same time I gave him a summons. Thomas Bragg Dept Sheriff