Middlesex County (Mass.). Warrant to attach goods of Timothy Phelps and John Farwell, 1773. Small Manuscript Collection, Harvard Law School Library.

Middlesex, ss GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of GOD, of Great-Britain, France and Ireland, KING, Defender of the Faith, etc.

To the Sheriff of Our County of Worcester his Under-Sheriff or Deupty, Greeting.

WE Command you to Attach the Goods or Estate of Timothy Phelps Cooper and John Farwell Husbandman both of Harvard in the same County to the Value of Twenty ------Pounds, and for want thereof to take the bodys of the said Timothy and John (if they may be found in your Precinct) and them safely keep, so that you have them before Our Justices of Our Inferiour Court of Common Pleas, next to be hold at Charlestown within and for Our said County of Middlesex, on the second Tuesday of March next. Then and there in Our said Court to Answer unto Nicholas Patterson of the District of Shirley in said County of Middlesex Husbandman in a plea of the case for that the said Timothy and John at said Shirley on the twenty sixth day of August AD by their note of hand by them subscribed for value received promised one James Prescott to pay him or his order the sum of thirteen pounds six shillings and eight pence at or before the twenty fifth day of February then next with interest till paid, and the said James there afterward the same day for value received of the 7th by him the same James's endorsement on said note, ordered the contents thereof then being unpaid to be paid to the full according to the tenor of said note, of all which the said Timothy & John there afterward the same day full notice from the (XXXXX) & thereby (XXXXX) obligated to pay him the contents of said Note according to the tenor thereof, & the said Timothy & John then and there in consideration thereof promised the (XXXXX) so to do. Yet the said Timothy and John though requested have never paid the same sum or said interests and bear neglect so to do To the Damage of the said Nicholas as he saith the Sum of Twenty Pounds, which shall then and there be made to appear, with other due Damages. And have you there this Writ, with your Doings therein. Witness Samuel Dunforth, Esq; at Cambridge, this twenty second Day of February in the thirteenth year of Our Reign. Annoque Domini, 1773

(Signed....), clerk

Patterson vs Phelps

Worcester, February 23rd 1773 I attest I a pair of [XXX] presented to be the eflate of the within named Timothy Phelps and a chair [XXXX] to me by the within named John Farwell to be his eflate and at the same time I left a summons at the Timothy last and of real place of abode in Harvard in the county for his appearance and delivered the [x] John a summons at the same time for his appearance. [xxxxx xx xxxxx xxx xxx] Peter A Thornton [xxxxx xxxxx]