4

Farmer if he shall be found in your bailiwick and him safe keep so
that you have his body before the Justices of our next County Court to
be held at the court house in Elizabeth in said country on the fourth
tuesday of November and to oanswer unto Elisha Lackland in a plea
of trespass on the case and so forth. Hereof fail not ye. Witness John
Stull Esquire Chief Justice of our said Court the 25th day of August
1789. Issed the 26th day of September 1789. Elie Williams Clk

At which mentioned day, to wit, the fourth Tuesday of November
in the year aforesaid comes here the aforesaid Elisha Lackland by
John Thompson Mason his Attorney and offers himself in the plea
aforesaid against the aforesaid Lakin Dorsey, And the Sheriff of the
County aforesaid, to whom the aforegoing writ was directed, likewise
comes and makes return thereof to the court here thiss Indorsed to wit
Cefice, Danl. Stull Shff.

And the aforesaid Lakin Dorsey appears in Court here by Richard
Potts his Attorney and thereupon at the prayer of the Plaintiff by his
Attorney aforesaid the aforesaid Lakin Dorsey is ruled to give a special bail in
the plea aforesaid. Whereupon Robert Smith farmer comes here
into Court before the Justices aforesaid in his proper person and
becomes pledge and bail for the aforesaid Lakin Dorsey that if it
should happen, that Judgement by the Court here for the aforesaid
Elisha Lackland in the place aforesaid against the aforesaid Lakin
Dorsey should be rendered then the said Robert Smith grants that
all such damages costs and charges which unto the said Elisha
Lackland in this part by the Court should be adjudged of his
lands and chattels should be made and to the use of said Elisha
Lackland levied if it should happen that the said Lakin Dorsey
the said damages and costs unto the said Elisha Lackland should
not pay or his body in Execution of the said Judgement to the
custody of the Sheriff of Washington County aforesaid by that
occasion should not render -- And thereupon day is given
as well to the said Elisha Lackland as the said Lakin Dorsey
by the court hree untill the fourth Tuesday of March next.

At which day, to wit, the fourth Tuesday of March Anno Domini