(seq. 1)

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