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Sheweth
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That Your Petitioner hath been confined ever since September Sessions last at the
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and that Your Petitioner and the other Defendants came upon
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their Tryal at the last Sessions of the peace at
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for a forceable Entry and taking any
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That the Court was then pleased to direct all parties to execute General Releases
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and the Defendant Harford to Deliver the said Amson all the Goods upon Oath that were not
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continued in the Inventory of Distress by him made And the said Amson did thereupon
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receive his papers and other Goods as in the Affidavit annexed is mentioned but the Court
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being adjourned before the Affidavit annexed could be made the said Amson now refuses to
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discharge your Petitioner although he hath received his Goods and hath had Notice and a
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Copy of such Affidavit and although General Releases were then executed which General
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Releases were deposited in the hands of
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one of the Serjeants at Mace of the
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Said City and which he now refuses also to deliver to your Petitioner whereby your Petitioner
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and her Child another of the above Defendants are reduced to the utmost extreamily
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and want
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Your Petitioner therefore most humbly Prays That in
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tender Consideration of the Premisses your Lordship with please
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to grant an Order to discharge her from her grevious
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Confinement or to afford her such other relief as to your
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great Wisdom shall seem meet
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And Your Petitioner shall ever Pray Etc.
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