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1840 Handwritten doc signed Sheriff Horace Ferris Burlington Chittenden Vt:
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Book 16 page 55
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STATE OF VERMONT,
Chittenden County, SS.
To the Sheriff of Chittenden County, his Deputy, or Constable of Burlington in said County, Greeting:
BY THE AUTHORITY OF THE STATE OF VERMONT,
You are hereby commanded to attach the goods, chattels, or estate of Asabel Stacy of Burlington in the County of Chittenden to the value of five hundred dollars, and notify thereof according to law; and for want thereof, to take the body of the said Asabel Stacy (if he may be found within your precinct) and him safely keep, so that you have him to appear before the County Court, next to be holden at Burlington, within and for the county of Chittenden, on the last Tuesday save one of August A.D. 1840, then and there in said court to answer unto Jacob Mason of Craftsbury in the County of Orleans.
In a plea of the case for that the defendant, heretofore to wit on the 13th day of June A.D. 1834, at Burlington aforesaid, by his promissory note of that date, for value received, promised the plaintiff to pay him or order one hundred dollars on demand with interest annually. Yet the defendant, his said promise not regarding, has never paid said sum of money nor any part thereof to the plaintiff, though often requested.
To the damage of the plaintiff two hundred dollars, as he says; for the recovery of which, with just cost, the plaintiff brings this suit.
Hereof fail not, but of this writ, with your doings thereon, make due return according to law.
Dated at Burlington in said County of Chittenden, this 29th day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty.
Wm. Noble, Clerk
This document is a writ of attachment dated June 29, 1840, ordering the seizure of property or the arrest of Asabel Stacy of Burlington for failing to pay Jacob Mason of Craftsbury, Orleans County, a debt of $100 based on a promissory note issued on June 13, 1834. The plaintiff is seeking damages of $200.
Chittenden County SS. June 6th 1840
Then by virtue of this writ I took the body of the within named Deft and this bail in his hearing and deemed sufficient bail.
H. Ferris, D. Sheriff