252  Provincial Court Proceedings, 1674.




    Liber M M                  answer unto Demetrius Cartwright in a plea
                               that he render unto him the sume of five
                               hundred and twenty pounds of tobacco which
                               to him he oweth and unjustly deteineth
                  And whereupon the Said Demetrius by Kenelm Cheseldyn his
                Attorny Saith that whereas the Said ffrancis the ninth day of July
                in the yeare of Our Lord God One thousand Six hundred and Sev
                enty did by his certaine writeing Obligatory Sealed with the Seale
                of the Said ffrancis here in Court produced whose date is the Same
                day and yeare abovewritten acknowledge himselfe to Owe and Stand
                indebted unto the Said Demetrius Cartwright of St Leonards Creeke
                in Petuxent River in the said County Inholder in the full and just
                Summe of five hundred and twenty pounds of good and Sound
                merchantable tobacco in caske according to act of Assembly to be
                paid at Some convenient place upon the Clifts in the County afore
                said at or upon the tenth day of October next ensueing the date
                of those presents unto the said Demetrius Cartwright his heirs ex
                ecutors administrators or assignes to which payment well and truly
                to be made he did bind himselfe his heirs executors administrators
                firmly by those presents Notwithstanding which the said ffrancis
                Neale the said summe of five hundred and twenty pounds of tobacco
                according to the tenor of the said bill hath not paid though often
                thereunto required but the same to pay hath and doth Still altogether
                deny to the damage of the Said Demetrius One thousand pounds of
                tobacco and thereupon he bringeth his Suite.
                  Now here at this day to witt the eightenth day of April in the
                two & fortith yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c the Sheriff of
                the said County of Dorcester returnes to the Court here that the
                said ffrancis Neale is not found in his Bailiwick whereupon the said
                Demetrius Cartwright prayeth the Court that an attachment against
                the goods or chattells of the said ffrancis Neale may be granted unto
                him according to the act of Assembly in that case made and pro
                vided and it is granted unto him

                Daniel Jenifer
                 a the def by John Rousby his Attorny appeares and
                    gt      imparles untill next Court.
                James Thompsonj

           p. 184 Demetrius Cartwright It was Comãnded the Sheriff of Somersett
                   agt County that he take John Little of his Said
                John LittleCounty otherwise called John Little of Pe
                tuxent River in Calvert County marriner if
                &c to answer unto Demetrius Cartwright in
                a plea that he render unto him the Summe of
                three hundred & thirty pounds of tobacco
                which to him he oweth and unjustly deteineth