William Clerk by his at torney, complains of John Roach of a plea of trespass on the case, for that whereas the said defendant heretofore to wit on twenty first day of april in the year eighteen Hundred and thirty four at the County aforesaid was indebted to the said plaintiff in the sum of five Hundred dol-lars lawful money of the United States for so much money by the said plaintiff to the said defendant before that time lent and advanced to and paid laid out and expended for, the use of the said defendant and all his special instance and request and being so indebted, he the said defendant in consideration thereof afterwards to wit on the day and year last aforesaid at the County afore-said undertook and then and there faithfully promised the said plaintiff to pay him the said sum of money above mentioned when he the said defendant showed he thereunto afterwards requested. nevertheless the said defendant not regarding his said promise and undertalking hath not as yet paid to the said plaintiff the said sum of money above mentioned or any part thereof but to do the same hath hitherto wholy neglected and refused and still doth reject and refuse to the damage of said plaintiff five hundred dollars and there for he brings his suit & c.

We command you to Attach John Roach by all and singular has lands and tenements, goods, chattels, moneys, credits, and effects, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to secure the sum of One Hundred and Eighty dollars with interest and costs of suit, in whose hands or possession soever the same found, in your bailiwick, that the said John Roach be and appear at the next term of the Circuit Court , before the Judge there of, on the first day of said term, to be holden at the city of St Louis , within and for the county of St. Louis , on the Fourth Monday July next then and there to answer unto William Clark of a plea of Trespass on the case to the damage of said plaintiff of Five Hundred dollars: And also that you might summon all and every person, in whose hands or possession soever, any such lands, tenements, goods, chattels, mo neys, credits or effects may be found, and particularly that they be and appear before the judge of our said court, on the first day of the term aforesaid, then and there to answer unto what may be objected against them; and have you then there this writ.