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- Dated Sept. 20 1771 Summons to Sept. ECCP 1771. A. Shelden, E. Hircom, T. Russell, M. Rolf Citation: Samuel Taylor vs Casar, Superior Court of Judicature June 1772, 15. Suffolk # 132190.
Transcription:Middlesex Ss. To Edward Hircom Gentleman [crossed out] Joseph Phelps[crossed out] Yeoman [crossed out] Daniel Rolf[crossed out] Martha Rolf Abraham Shelden Timothy Rusel You are hereby required in HIs Majesty’s Name to make your Appearance before the Justices of Our Lord the King, at the next Inferiour Court of Common Pleas to be holden at Newburyport within and for the County of Essex on the last Tuesday this instant. To give evidence of what you know relating to an Action or Plea of trespass then and there to be heard and tried betwixt Seaser a Negro man of Andover, Plaintiff, and Samuel Taylor of Reading Cordwainer Defendant: . Hereof fail not, as you will answer your Default under the Pains and Penalty of the Law in that case made and provided. Dated in Reading the twentieth day of September ano Domini one thousand seven hundred seventy & one, an in the eleventh Year of His Majesty’s Reign. John Temple Town Clerk Copy examined by William Jeffry Clerk