1Correspondence of James Murray, John Fleeming, and Sheriff Stephen Greenleaf: March—May 1770 (Adams Papers)
In order to prevent as much as may be any damage to any of the parties in the said suits or to the Officers who laid the attachments the defendants friends propose that you cause the effects attached to be appraised you chusing the appraisers for the defendant and that his friends will shew you other effects of his to the full amount of the Value appraized less perishable than those now...