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| NB. The following has not been positively identified as
belonging to our Thomas & David, but there is a good chance it is,
as the date of the deal fits in when David was in New York as a
Merchant. |
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Thomas Galbreath
& David Galbreath New Jersey, Supreme Court of the term of November in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & ninety one. Middlesex, to wit, Thomas Galbreath & David
Galbreath complain of Abraham H. Schenck in custody & Abraham Von
Burin junr. (of which said Abraham Von Buren junr. The sheriff of the
County of Somerset hath returned that he is not to be found in his
bailiwick) of a plea that they render unto them two hundred pounds
lawful money of New Jersey, which to them they owe and from them
unjustly detains & for this, to wit, that whereas the said Abraham
H. Schenck & Abraham Von Burin on the sixth day of August in the
year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & eighty eight at New
Brunswick in the County of Middlesex were indebted to the said Thomas
and David in the sum of one hundred & forty three pounds And Kirkpatrick Att for Plff. Middlesex, to wit, Thomas Galbreath and David Galbreath put in their place and Mr Kirkpatrick their Attorney, against Abraham H. Schenck & Abraham Von Burin in a plea of debt. Judgment April 6 1792 for £140.4.4 Thomas Galbreath
& David Galbreath New Jersey to wit, The State of New Jersey to our Sheriff of our County of Middlesex, Greeting, We command you that of the goods and chattels lands and tenements in your bailiwick of Abraham H. Schenck & Abraham Von Burin junr you cause to be made as well a certain debt of one hundred and forty pounds four shillings and four pence lawful money of New Jersey in gold and silver, which Thomas Galbreath and David Galbreath lately in our Supreme Court of Judicature at Trenton, before our Justices of our said Court, recover against them, as seven Pounds sixteen shillings & four pence like money aforesaid which in our same Court before our Justices aforesaid were adjudged to the said Thomas and David for their damages which they had sustained as well by reason of the detention of that debt as of their costs and charges by them about their suit in that behalf expended, and that you have those monies before our Justices aforesaid at Trenton aforesaid on the second Tuesday in September next and to render unto the said Thomas and David for their debt and damages aforesaid so as aforesaid recovered against the said Abraham H. Schenck & Abraham Von Burin junr whereof they are convicted as appears of record , and that you have then there this writ. Witness the Honorable James Kinsey Esq., our Chief
justice at Trenton aforesaid the ninth day in April in the year of our
Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety two. Kirkpatrick Att
Howell, Clk Witness the Honorable James Kinsey Esq., our Chief justice at Trenton aforesaid the .. day in May in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety two. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- An identical order was made on the .. of May ordering the said monies be rendered by the first Tuesday in September. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By virtue of the within writ to me directed I ..
seized and taken one moity or equal half of a large brick house &
Lot thereunto belonging situate on the north side of Albany Street in
the City New Brunswick subject to prior executions & incumbrances
& are to the value of five shillings & remains unsold for want
of buyers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Also an identical statement was made by the sheriff except that he placed the house on the south side of Albany Street. Acknowledgments to New Jersey State Archives –
Supreme Court Case File # 14618 |