This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JEB.2ACE/382 Message Board Post: Greetings, I do not personally research the above surname lines, but have a document that may be helpful to those who do. I have attaced a copy of the document on the rootsweb message board and also on my website. The court summons reads: *********************************************************************** "Cumberland SS....... To David Swall 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 ninth --- day of September 1826 at one of the clock in the after noon: to answer unto Samuel Sweetser of North Yarmouth of said merchant in a plea of the case ------- as is more fully set forth in the writ Which 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 judgment which the said plaintiff may recover upon the 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. Jacob Mitchell *********************************************************************** If you have trouble viewing it at rootsweb, I also have it on my site at http://www.surnameheirlooms.com/fiaprmay2003.html I hope this helps genealogy researchers : ) Have a blessed day