Levi Patterson Sr to Linus Pratt
May 29, 1838
To any Coroner of
our county of Berkshire, the sheriff having deceased – Greeting, whereas Levi Patterson of Carlisle in the state
of Ohio, Gentleman, by the consideration of our Justices of our court of Common
Pleas, holden at Lenox, within and for our county of Berkshire, on the fourth
Monday of October A.D. 1837 recovered judgement against Linus Pratt, now and late of Ontario in the state of New York
Yeoman for the sum of two-hundred & four dollars & ten cents damages,
and sixteen dollars and twenty-nine cents costs of suit, as to us appears of
record, whereof execution remains to be done. We command you therefore, that of
the goods, chattels or lands of the said Linus
within your precinct, you cause to be paid & satisfied unto the said Levi, at the value thereof in money,
the aforesaid sums, being $220.39 in the whole with seventy five cents more for
this & two former writs, and thereof also to satisfy yourself for your own
fees and for want of goods, chattels or lands of the said Linus to be by him shown unto you, or found within your precinct,
to the acceptance of the said Levi
to satisfy the sums aforesaid. We command you to take the body of the said Linus and him commit unto our goal in
Lenox in our county of Berkshire aforesaid, & him detain in your custody
within our said goal until he pay the full sums above mentioned, with your fees
or that he be discharged by the said Levi,
the creditor or otherwise by order of law – Thereof fail not and make return of
this write, with your doings therein unto our court of Common Pleas to the
holders at Lenox, within and for our county of Berkshire on the fourth Monday
of June next –
Witness, Artemus Ward Esq. at Lenox, the
twenty-ninth day of May in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and
thirty-eight – Charles Sedgewick, Clerk.
Source: Great Barrington Town Hall, Main Street,
Berkshire Co.,