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1787 Supreme Court Session - Samuel Sparrow vs. G. Hirnish (S.C. 1787) (1) Debt-Note (2) Praecipe (3) Attachment (4) Affidavit 

[28a]

... Attachment for Samuel Sparrow against Gotlieb Hirnish of Lunenburg in the County of Lunenburg Dealer ... on Note of Hand ... Damages £ 120 By oath for £ 67: 10: 6... Issued 6^th Nov^v 1787 ...

[28b]

... to the Sheriff of the County of Halifax or his Deputy; Greetings: We command you to attach the Goods, Chattles, or the estate of Gotlieb Hirnish Lunenburg ... to the Value of Sixty Eight pounds and also to summon the said Gotlieb Hirnish ... to appear before our Justices of our Supreme Court ... on the first Tuesday of April next ... to answer the Suit of Samuel Sparrow ... upon a Certain promissory Note under the hand of the said Gotlieb, payable to the Said Samuel .... this Eighteenth Day of October in the twenty Seventh Year of our Reign ... 1787 ... Issued 6th Nov 1787 ...
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                                                                          Halifax November 87
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Sir
I have to request you will Return the writ of attachment .... as satisfied ... you mo:^t obed:t Hble Ser^t ... [Signed] Sam Sparrow

[28c]

To the Supremen Court
       Between }  Samuel Sparrow Plaintif
                      }              v
                     }  Gotlieb Hirrish, Defendant

Samuel Sparrow of Halifax Merchant the Plaintif in this Cause Maketh Oath and Saith that the Defendant Gotlieb Hirnish ... Indebted to this Depondent in the Sum of Sixty Seven pounds; ten Shillings and Six pence Currency ... upon a Certain promissory note under the hand of the said Gotlieb Hirnish bearing date the Twenty eighth Day of december one thousand Seven hundred and eighty Six ... 

Sworn Before me this          }
6^th Day of November 1787 } ....        [Signed] Sam Sparrow

[Source: Public Archives of Nova Scotia, R.G. 39 "C" [Hx], Volume 50, # 28]

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