Name/Title
1838 Joseph McLaughlin for $200 vs various namesEntry/Object ID
004263Scope and Content
Orange Common Pleas. Of May Term in the year Eighteen hundred and thirty eight. - Orange County ss: Joseph McLaughlin plaintiff by Ebenezer C. Sutterland his attorney complains of Joseph Marshall William L. Titus Stephen Griffing William H. Townsend Junior, Amos Van Duzer Gouverneur Kemble Henry W. Bertholf Hudson McFarlan William T. Hane, Ebenezer Bull, Nathaniel Ketcham and Samuel T. Seaman - defendants of a plea of trespass on the Case upon promises by a declaration pursuant to the Statute:
FOR THAT WHEREAS the said defendant on the fifth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight at Goshen in Orange County were indebted to the said plaintiff in the sum of two hundred dollars, of lawful money of the United States of America, for divers goods, wares, and merchandises, by the said plaintiff before that time sold and delivered to the said defendant and at the special instance and request of the said defendant and being so indebted to the said plaintiff the said defendant in consideration thereof, afterwards to wit, on the same day and year, and at the place aforesaid, undertook, and then and there faithfully promised the said plaintiff well and truly to pay unto said plaintiff the said sum of money last mentioned, when the said defendant should be thereunto afterwards requested. AND WHEREAS ALSO the said defendant afterwards to wit, on the same day and year, and at the place aforesaid, in consideration that the said plaintiff had before that time, at the like special instance and request of the said defendant sold and delivered to the said defendant divers other goods, wares, and merchandises of the said plaintiff the said defendant then and there undertook and faithfully promised the said plaintiff that the said defendant would well and truly pay to the said plaintiff so much money as the last aforesaid goods, wares, and merchandises at the time of the sale and delivery thereof, were reasonably worth, when the said defendant
