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William Russell
vs
Simeon English
Debt $583.33 1/3
Damages $500

Filed February 21st 1823

Executed in Ozan Township March 14th 1823–

Service $...80
AF Worthen
Shff H Cty

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Territory of Arkansas
County of Pulaski

In the Superior court of and for the Territory of Arkansas to April term of said court in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty three William Russell plaintiff by his attorney complains of Simeon English administrator of all and singular the goods and chattels, rights, [missing] of John English deceased, at the time of his death who died intestate, & to of a plea that he the said defendant render unto him this said plaintiff the sum of five hundred and eighty three dollars thirty three and one third cents current money of the united states which he the said Simeon administrator of the aforesaid unjustly detains from him the said Russell For that whereas the said John English in his lifetime to wit on the twentieth day of June in the year one thousand eight hundred twenty one in the county of Pulaski & within the ? the said John English of his certain writing obligatory signed with his proper hand and sealed with his seal and now hereunto this court shewn the date whereof is of the same day and year as last aforesaid on or before the twentieth day of June one thousand eight hundred and twenty two promised for value received to pay or cause to be paid to William Russell his heirs or assigns the first [image of page 3] and full sum of five hundred and eighty three dollars thirty three and one third cents in current money of the United States with interest at the rate of ten percent a year from the time the same becomes due until paid and a discount at the same rate if paid before it becomes due the said John English in his lifetime and the said same the said Simeon English administrator of aforesaid after [missing] the said John English not regarding his promises and obligatory agreement of him the said John English but contriving fraudulently and subtly to deceive and defraud the said Russell in this behalf have not nor hath either of them paid the aforesaid owing five hundred and eighty three dollars thirty three and one third cents to the said Russell ? ? thereof altho often requested so to do But to pay this [missing] or any part thereof to the said Russell the said John English in his lifetime wholly neglected and refused and the said Simeon administrator as aforesaid have ever since the death of the said John English hath thereto hath wholly refused and still doth refuse for to do to the damage of the said William Russell five hundred dollars and therefore he sues &c
Trimble & Sevier
PQ

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the clerk of the Superior court will please issue a summons on the foregoing declaration directed to the sheriff of Hampstad county and endorse this is an action of debt for $583.33 1/3 Damage $500 no bail required
A.H. Sevier

Territory of Arkansas
United States of America

To the Sheriff of Hempstead County Greeting:
You are hereby commanded to summon Simeon English Adm. of John English decd to appear before the Judges of our Superior Court, at the Court House in the town of Little Rock, on the first day of our next term, then and there to answer William Russell to a plea of Debt five hundred Eighty Three dollars 33 1/3 damage and that you made due return of this writ to our said Court.
[stamped seal]
Wm. E. Woodruf, Printer, Little Rock
In testimony whereof, I have set my hand as Clerk, and affixed the seal of office, this 21st day of February 1823 and of the Independence the 46th
D.E. McKinney, Clerk

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