“RESOLVE ON THE PETITION OF JESSE WARE, DIRECTING HIM TO NOTIFY JAMES NICHOLS TO APPEAR AT THE TIME AND PLACE MENTIONED.

On the petition of Jesse Ware, of New Braintree, in the county of Worcester, praying for a re-hearing of an action, in the Supreme Judicial Court, brought against him by James Nichols:

Resolved, That the said Jesse Ware, cause the said James Nichols to be cited to appear on the second Wednesday of the next sitting of the General Court, to show cause (if any he hath) why the prayer of said petition should not be granted, by lodging with the said James Nichols, or at his dwelling house in Brookfield, in the county aforesaid, an attested copy of the abovementioned petition, and the order thereon, at least thirty days previous to the second Wednesday aforesaid; and that all proceedings by virtue of an execution of the judgment mentioned in said petition, be in the mean time stayed.  November 24, 1785.“

Reference Data:

Acts and Resolves Passed by the General Court of Massachusetts, by Massachusetts, 1784, page 785