Daniel Hartwell Court Documents (1804-1807)
Daniel Hartwell Court papers - 11 Jan 1806
The following document from the Essex County Court of Common Pleas shows a request from Daniel Hartwell for an attachment of goods valuing $70 from Calvin Bunker. Click on the image below to view the full document in a new window.
Source: Essex County.Court of Common Pleas
Transcription
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
The Several Sheriffs of our Countys of Essex and Nantucket, Deputy to either of the Constables of the town of Salem in said County
We command you to attach the goods or estate of Calvin Bunker of Nantucket in the County of Nantucket, mariner, to the value of seventy Dollars, and for want thereof to take the body of the said Calvin (if he may be found in your precinct) and him safely keep to that you have him before our Justices of our Court of Common Pleas, next to be holden at Ipswich within and for our said County of Essex, on the last Monday of March next, then and there in our said Court to answer to
Daniel Hartwell of Salem in said County of Essex, mariner, in a plea of trespass on the case, for that the said Calvin at said Salem on the day of the purchase of this writ being indebted to the Pltf [plaintiff] in the sum of twenty four dollars & seventy cents to the amount annexed, in consideration thereof, then and there promised the Pltf. in a certain other sum of twenty four dollars & seventy cents for so much money before that time had received by the said Calvin to the Pltf's use in consideration thereof then and there promised the Pltf. to pay him the same sum on demand, yet though requested the said Calvin hath never paid the same amount either of them but returns so to do.
To the damage of the said Pltf (as he says) the sum of seventy Dollars, which shall then and there be made to appear, with other due damages.
And have you there this writ with your your doings therein.
Witness Timothy Pickering, Esquire, at Salem, this eleventh day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and six
Ichabod Tucker, CLERK
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
The Several Sheriffs of our Countys of Essex and Nantucket, Deputy to either of the Constables of the town of Salem in said County
We command you to attach the goods or estate of Calvin Bunker of Nantucket in the County of Nantucket, mariner, to the value of seventy Dollars, and for want thereof to take the body of the said Calvin (if he may be found in your precinct) and him safely keep to that you have him before our Justices of our Court of Common Pleas, next to be holden at Ipswich within and for our said County of Essex, on the last Monday of March next, then and there in our said Court to answer to
Daniel Hartwell of Salem in said County of Essex, mariner, in a plea of trespass on the case, for that the said Calvin at said Salem on the day of the purchase of this writ being indebted to the Pltf [plaintiff] in the sum of twenty four dollars & seventy cents to the amount annexed, in consideration thereof, then and there promised the Pltf. in a certain other sum of twenty four dollars & seventy cents for so much money before that time had received by the said Calvin to the Pltf's use in consideration thereof then and there promised the Pltf. to pay him the same sum on demand, yet though requested the said Calvin hath never paid the same amount either of them but returns so to do.
To the damage of the said Pltf (as he says) the sum of seventy Dollars, which shall then and there be made to appear, with other due damages.
And have you there this writ with your your doings therein.
Witness Timothy Pickering, Esquire, at Salem, this eleventh day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and six
Ichabod Tucker, CLERK
