Rebecca Butler v. Mary Shervin. Memorandum

 

Rebecca Butler
against
Mary Shervin

Be it remembered that heretofore towit, or the Fourteenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety; Rebecca Butler by Gabriel Duvall her attorney preferred and filed in the General Court here her Petition for Freedom against Mary Shervin, which is in form following towit. (here insert petition) Whereupon in pursuance of the Rule and order of the Court here insert case made and provided, on the Seventh day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety, the said Rebecca Butler by her attorney aforesaid prosecuted and so forth out of the General Court has the writ of the State of Maryland of Subpoena ad respondendum against the said Mary Shervin, directed to the sheriff of Charles County in form following towit (insert Summons)

And now at this day towit, the said Second Tuesday of Mary being the Tenth day of the said month in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety one, and the day of the return of the aforegoing Summons comes into the General Court here, the said Rebecca Butler by her attorney aforesaid; and the sheriff of Charles County aforesaid to whom the said Summons was in form aforesaid (directed)   directed, makes return thereof to the Court here thus endorsed towit. "Summoned. Thos A Dyson Shff of Chas County." Whereupon comes into the General Court here, the said Mary Shervin by Thomas Du Hurst Merrick her attorney And the said Mary Shervin by her attorney aforesaid and Saith (&c as 2 Harris Entries page 122.

Costs 565 Tobo

Memorandum. The parties aforesaid by their attornies aforesaid agree that the Judgment of [strikethrough] the Court of Appeals on the petition of Mary Butler against Adam Craig [strikethrough] shall be the Judgment in this case & that the same shall be as effectual and binding on each party in every respect as if the Judgment was given in this case.

Test John Gwinn Clk

 

No. 84.

Rebecca Butler
vs
Mary Shervin

Petition for Freedom

May 1791