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In the Court of Chnneery, Province of Georgia C'hrnrle# Younge and Wife, and ^ others, by their next Friend,Complainants,slgtthtft ier,- T1At his Excellency theChancellor's Hou/e, i on Saturday the aXth of April, j7 31.Shem Butler, Thomas Chifoim, and Mary his Wife, late Mary Spcnccr, Defendants,ON motion of the complainants Counfel in the above caufc the f allowing Writ, and Affidavit thereon indorsed and made, were read :the grace of France, and the Faith,lt;£rc. To Shem Butler, late of St. Philip’s parlfli* in the faid province, planter j Thomas Chif-ohm, h»re of the town of Savannah, in the faid piovince, gentleman, and Mary his wife, formerly the widow of Thomas Spencer, late.of Ch'ifi Church pariih, planter, deer ifed ; fr certain cau'hs ofre red before our Governor and Ch inccllorof our province of Gleorgra; In our Chancery of our fiTd province, We command a-id ftrictly enjoin -you, th^t, laying all other matters afiie, and no:wi:h handingacrrcu ana maac, were reaa :Georgia. George the Third, by rh(L. fi.) God, of Great Britain, fi Ja. Wright. 3 Ireland, King, Defender ofany oth r c xcufc, yaU oe,rfaiu' ly appear-u^hor-o our fai J—of ApiiT-next enfifrng, 'vrbwefoerer ij fcifi then be, tp » anfwrr ^oncerntug thofc.things which lha Lthen and theie b* objrfted’to you, and to do further and iryeive what onr faid Court (hail hove confidercd in this behaifj and this you m ry in nowife omit, finder the pen.olty cf one hundred pounds refpcCtivcly, and nave there this writ. V/itnefs his Excellency' our trufiy and s/cel!-beloved Sir James Wr igHt, Baro.o’t, our Captain General arid Governor in chief in an i oyer our fai l province of Georgia, ard Chancellor, Vice,Admiral, and Ordinary of the fame, at Savannah, the thirty-fir!! day of March, in the twenty-nrft year-of our reign.To anfwer at the fu’t jof Charles Younge, his wife, aud-othcrs, bj thnr next friend. -ROiiERThON, Complainants Solicitor. Faffed Office,Gao. D’ereagx, Reg'r, Chan’y.Georgia, iT.Donald Frafer, of Savannah, in the province of Ceor-gia, Efy. Afting Provofl Mufhal of the fud province, being duly fworn, declares, That the within nsmed Shem Butler, Thomas Chi film, and Mary his wife, firmer!/ Mary Spencer, were heretofore refid nt- within this province, that is to fay, the faid Siwm Butler in rh- psrift of St. Philip within the fu*ne, and rhe faid Thom; ChifMru ' and Mary his wife in the parifh of Chrifi Church within the fame, for a long fpace of time, that is to fay, every of -them for upwards of one year. And the d-pon- nt further fays, That he hasTBflmred for and fra h~ ! r.trthc faid Shcm Butler, Thofnas Chifoim, and the faid M ry his wife, for upwards of ten day s finte he received the within proccfs, but .Could not find them, or any one or m re of them, within this province, fo as to ferrc, or caufc them to be ferved, with the faid proccfs j and the Jeponcnt further fays, tjiaf he 1:as hiea informed, and briitves, all the find porfons fo-fougTff fir wirhdrew themfefvss from this province about the tir.fe of the arrival of his Majefty’s troops about the beginning of the year one thouund feven hundred and feventy-nine. D. Fxatfi, A. P. M.Sworn tirr 2 S/6 day of Apr;!, i7Sl before rre,Geo. D’erbage, M. C. C.Whereupon his Excellency the Chancellor, at the infiance of the faid Complainants Counfel, was pleafed * to order, that the fame writ and ulfidaait^ tigether with this rule, be forthwith publifin j in the publi«k Gazette of this provincefo'r tiw fpace of three calendar nionthsfuc-celfively, and that fuch publication fhall be c.jual to perform! Orvice of the faid writ of fulpcena j and that thereafter the faid fuit fh.ali and lawfully may be profccuted, carried on, and proceeded in, without further delay, agreeable to the directions of an adt, lately paflbd in the General Af-fvmbly of this piovince, intitled, “ An Ad! for the Relief “ of fuch of his Majefiy’s loyal Subjects as have; any real “ or perfonal Property in the Province of Georgia, and “ whole Title Dedds, Bonds, Notes, Specialties, and 0-“ ther Evidences, Vouchers and Writings, have been ci-** ther lofi, defiroyed, or carried off, during the time ** herein after mentioned.1’ +ByOrdrrcfmTxcinenlftFeXFincciro??GEO. D’ERBAGE, Reg’r. Chan'y.
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Savannah Royal Georgia Gazette
Savannah, Georgia, US
Thu, May 03, 1781
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