This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/JEB.2ACE/255 Message Board Post: Greetings, I have an original summons for a David Swall of Cumberland co, Maine. I have listed the information in the summons below. Please let me know if I can be of any help. PS: I do not personally research this surname, just trying to help. Ashley Surname Heirlooms www.surnameheirlooms.com Information: Cumberland SS To David Swall (J=poss. Jr) Greetings IN the name of the State of Maine, you are commanded to appear before me Jacob Mitchell Esquire, one of the Justices of the Peace for the county aforesaid, at my dwelling-house, to wit, at my office in North Yarmouth in said county, on Saturday the nineth day of September 1826 at one the clock in the after noon; to answer unto Samuel (Sweetsen or Sweetson) of North Yarmouth aforesaid merchant in the plea of "the case" as is more fully set forth in the writ. which plea the said plaintiff hath commenced to be heard and tried before me: and your goods or estate are attached to the value of twenty dollars, for security to satisfy the judgement which the said plaintiff may recover upon aforesaid trial. Fail not of appearance at your peril Dated at North Yarmouth aforesaid the twenty ninth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty six. Signature of Jacob Mitchell