My latest acquisition is this wonderful colonial American document of 1736. It is on hand laid paper and has a papermakers watermark and also a Massachusetts Bay Colony seal. It is a Writ of Attachment for a New England physician who monthly appeared in court for exorbitant fees. We Command You to Attach The Goods or Estate of Peter Reed of Pembrook in The County of Plymouth Sadler To The Value of Seven Pounds and for Want to Take The Body of same and him safely Keep so that you have him before our Justices of our Inferiour Court of Common Pleas to be Holder at Bristol in the County of Bristol in The 9th Tuesday of April AD 1736 Justly Indebted to The Plaintiff in The Sum of 3 Pounds and 9 Shillings and 3 Pence & a Paticular Amount for this Writ .Agreeable to The Books in Court to be Produced Promised to Pay The Sum on Demand yet the same to the Plaintiff to pay Tho often requested to The Said Peter Reed hath Neglected and From The Plaintiff Detains It. This is Aaron Bourne of Bristol in action. He had charged a Husbandman 90 Pounds to dress a finger. There is another account where a man building a house for him beat him up bad in the house, also where a man beats him up and has him on the ground and the doctor states you have broken my leg and he says, youre a doctor fix it. IN A PLEA OF THE CASE by His Note. On Verso Is a Bill Signed By Aaron Bourne Physician. also Writ Bourne Vs Reed and Deputy Sheriff Signs and States Bristol April 28th 1736 I Have attached The Body of The Deft Peter Reed & Commited Him To The GOAL. A writ of attachment is generally used to freeze assets of a defendant pending the outcome of a legal action. That is, the plaintiff obtains a contingent lien on the defendants assets that can be exercised should the plaintiff be successful in obtaining a judgment against the defendant. There are a number of different types of attachment, including garnishment, replevin and sequestration.
Posted on: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 00:02:38 +0000
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