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Court and Testamentary Business, 1649 50.165
Wm Smith is an Old aged man of 61 years, Seduced from his Liber B. Countrey wife and Children by the fair and false promises of this Mitchell delayed and put off from Court to Court by the Attorney of this Capt Mitchell and himself and ready to goe for England before any Court or relief can be had, for want of which relief he must in all likelyhood perish, this Court being a Court of Equity as well as Law doth Conceive this appear- ance of Capt Mitchell to be good, he voluntarily comeing of himself and pleading day after day in the Case desireing his Wittness to be Sent for one day and heard the next, And therefore proceeds to Sentence as followeth, That the plt ac- cording to the promise and ingagement of the Deft be Satis- fied for his charge of dyett for 1 6 months which after the rate of one hundred pounds of Tobacco p Month amounts to 1600 weight of Tobacco as likewise for his Voyage into England and return into Bedford shire 1000 l weight of Tobacco and Cask together with the Cost and Charges of Suit for the which Said Several Sumes he is hereby granted Judgment and after Judgment Execucon and as touching the pits demand of Goods and other things now Complayned, for the Court thinks fit not p. 304 to meddle any further therein for the present but doth respit the further hearing thereof till the next Court for which pur- pose the Deft is hereby ordered then to appear peremptorily. Execucon ad satisfaciend.
Know all men by these presents, that I, Geo: Mee doe firmly by these presents acquitt and discharge John Allen from all further Service which Should have been due by vertue of one Indenture by him Signed unto Mr Walter Cooper of the Island of Barbadoes or his assignes as also by one Other Indenture Signed unto Mr Edmond Hunt of the Same Island Wittness my hand this Nine and twentieth day of Aprill Anno Dni 1652. theMarkof George G M Mee Signed and delivered in the prsence of the Mark 1 of Thomas Sturman J no Sturman
Know all men by these presence that I Walter Beane in the Province of Maryland Planter Doe by these presence bind my Self my heirs Extors or Admrs in the penalty of thirteen thousand four hundred and eight pounds of Tobacco to See the Estate of William Broof deceased forth comeing and to p. 305 keep a Just and true account of the Said Estate appraised by John Wade Chirurgeon and John Taylor at 6704 l of Tobacco
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