Cumberland County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Court.....Cottrell, Benjamin October 10, 1791
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Source: Cumberland County Court Records (1774-1792)
Written: October 10, 1791


Letter concerning escape of Benjamin Cottrell from jail
Cumberland County Court Records (1774-1792)
Call Number: Mss4 C9102 c
Publisher: Virginia Historical Society

Cumberland County State of Virginia, to wit:
Walter Warfield Gentleman one of the Commonwealth Justices of the peace for the
said County of Cumberland, to the Marshal of the District of Virginia, under the
Federal Government and to all Sheriffs, Mayors, Bailiffs, Constables and Head
boroughs within the Commonwealth of Virginia Greeting,
Complaint being this day made to me by Mayo Carrington Deputy Marshal of the
said District of Virginia that Benjamin Cottrell of the said County, who was
charged in Custody of him the said Mayo Carrington as Deputy Marshall aforesaid,
and for want of bail, at the suit of Robert Donald, Andrew Donald, Thomas
Donald, Alexander Donald, Robert Donald junr and Alexander Donald junr of the
city of Glasgow in the Kingdom of Great Brittain, surviving partners and
obligees of James and Robert Donald and others late Merchants and partners of
the said City and Kingdom, acting under the firm of James and Robert Donald and
Company, in an action of Debt for two hundred and forty three pounds five
shillings and two pence Currency of Virginia damage fifty pounds, did on or
about the eighth day of the present month October, by force and without the
consent of him the said Deputy Marshall, make his escape out of the Custody of
him the said Deputy Marshall, as he was conveying the body of him the said
Benjamin Cottrell to the Jail of the said Cumberland and is now going at large:
These are therefore in the name of the United States, To require you and every
of you in your respective District, Counties, Towns and precincts, to seize and
retake the said Benjamin Cottrell, and him so retaken, to commit to the prison,
where debtors are usually kept in the county where he is so retaken, and deliver
him to the keeper thereof together with this warrant hereby commanding and
requiring you the said keeper to receive the said Benjamin Cottrell and him
Safely keep in the said Jail untill a certificate under the hand of the Clerk of
the Court of the United States for the Middle Circuit within the said District
of Virginia, that this Benjamin Cottrell hath given bail in the said suit, shall
be delivered to you, and return this warrant to the said Court at Richmond in
the said District of Virginia, pursuant to the laws in that case made and provided
Given under my hand and Seal this tenth day of October one thousand seven
hundred and ninety one WWarfield

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