Warrant on Fi. Fa. in Assumpsit. Samuel Raymond Esq., Deputy Sheriff of the District of Port Phillip, in the Colony of New South Wales, to William Johnson Sugden, my Bailiff, Greeting:

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Sydney : W. J. Row, Government Printer, [1842, or earlier]. Foolscap folio (335 x 210 mm), single sheet of laid paper with Britannia watermark, printed recto only, with manuscript entries; a warrant on Fieri Facias In Assumpsit empowering William Johnson Sugden, the Deputy Sheriff s Bailiff, to recover the sum of £23 10/- 8d in damages and costs from Thomas Softly Kay (Little Bourke Street), owed to the plaintiff, Andrew Crockett (Little Flinders Street), as ruled in the Supreme Court of New South Wales, for the District of Port Phillip, and to be delivered to the Court before 10 February 1842; the document is dated 4 January 1842; embossed court seal at lower right; signed by Raymond and countersigned by the plaintiff s attorney, David Ogilvy, at the foot; verso with clerical summary Crockett Plaintiff / Kay Defendant / Warrant on Fi. Fa. / D. Ogilvy Plaintiff s Attorney; original folds, fine. A very early Port Phillip legal document, associated with several significant pioneer colonists. William Johnson Sugden (c.1804-1868) was one of the most notable early Port Phillip colonists. A portrait of him by Thomas Foster Chuck was published in Chuck s The explorers and early colonists of Victoria (1872). Sugden, formerly a soldier in the Life Guards and attendant to George IV, arrived in Australia in 1834. He lived in Hobart where he was the licensee of the Dorchester Butt Hotel in Campbell Street, between September 1835 and May 1836, before being declared insolvent. He left Van

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