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March Court 1717 294 Said that they Cannot gainsay but that they have as much Tobacco and money in there hands According to the return of the afd Attachment and is willing that Judgment Should be entred for the Same in their hands Therefore it is Considered by the Court here viztthis Twentieth day of March Annoque Domini one Thousand Seven hundred and Seventeen That the afd five hundred and Seventy pounds of Tobacco in the hands of Allexander Williamson Clarke principall vestry man and his Brethren vestry men of St. Pauls Parish in Kent County afd and in the hands of Thomas Ringgold the Sume of Sixteen pounds Sterling money be Condemned According to Act of Assembly And that the Said John Evans have thereof Execution He the Said Plt. Entering Security before Execution Issue on the Judgment~ afd That if he afd Deft Should within a Year and a day from Issueing out the orriginal writ come in and appear and Answer the afd Plt in his Accon afd And make it appear that the demand afd is Satisfied or otherwise Shall discompt any part thereof that then the Plt. Shall make restitution of the afd Tobo. & money So as afd Attached & Condemned or the value there^of. &ca
Steel pone in Kent County in the Province of Maryland Planter if he Should be found in your Bailywick and him Safe keep So that you have his body before his Said Lord Ships Justices of the next County Court to . be held at our Court house in the Town of Chester in Said County to Answer unto John Williams of a plea that he render to him the full and just Sume or quantity of four Thousand four hundred pounds of good Sound Merchant :able leafe Tobacco cleare of ground leaves & trach in good and Lawfull Seasoned Cask of ye. value of Twenty two pounds Sterling money which he unjustly detains &ca. And that he have then and there the Said writ &ca. Att which Said next Court vizt. the Eighteenth day of March the Same Year last~. mentioned the day of return of Said writ Came Simon Wilmer Gent~. high Sherf of Said County and made return there |
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