70  Provincial Court Proceedings, 1672/3.




          Liber M M  ceased in a plea that he rendr unto them three thousand seaven hun
                  dred Seaventy and nine pounds of Tobacco wch he unjustly Deteineth.
                   And whereupon the said ffrancis and Elizabeth by Robert Carvile
                  their Attorney say that whereas the said Samuell Cressy upon the
               p. 25th day of May in the yeare of our Lord 1669 by his certeine writing
                  obligatory sealed with the seale of the said Samuell here in Cort
                  pduced whose date is the day and yeare abovewritten did acknowl
                  edge himselfe to owe and stand indebted to the said Daniel Johnson
                  in the full and Just sume of One Thowsand Eight hundred pounds
                  of sound Merchantable leafe Tobacco pcell off ye aforesayd sume
                  of 3779l of Tobacco to be payd Conveniently in Charles County afsd
                  on or before the tenth day of November next Ensueing, And
                  whereas the said Samuell Cressy upon the said 25th day of May
                  aforesayd in the yeare aforesayd by his certeine other writing obliga
                  tory sealed with the seale of him the said Samuell and hereafter in
                  Cort pduced whose date is likewise the day and yeare abovewritten,
                  did acknowledge himself to owe and stand indebted unto the said
                  Daniel Johnson the sume of One Thousa [nd] nine hundred seaventy
                  and nine pounds of Tobacco & caske residue of the aforsd Sume
                  of 3779l of Tobacco to be payd Conveniently in Charles County at
                  or before the tenth day of November next ensueing the date thereof
                  wch said severall sumes of Tobacco in the whole amounting unto
                  the sume of three Thousand seaven hundred seventy and nine pounds
                  of Tobacco, the said Samuell though often thereunto requested
                  to the said Daniel Johnson in his life time or to the said Elizabeth
                  while she was sole to whome Lres of Admcon of all the goods &
                  Chattells wch were the aforesd Daniels at the time of his Death by
                  the hono:ble Wm Talbot Baront Cheif Judge fo[r] probate of
                  wills and graunting of Admcons the one & Twentieth day of Janu
                  ary in the yeare of our Lord 1670 were comitted or to them the said
                  Francis or Elizabeth since their Espowsalls betweene them cele
                  brated hath not renderd bu[t] the same to them to render hath
                  Denyed and the same to them the said ffrancis & Elizabeth to
                  render as yet doth Deny and unjustly Deteyne, whereupon they are
                  Damnifyed and have Damage to the vallue of 5000l of Tob and
                  thereupon the[y] bring their suite, And the said ffrancis and Eliza
                  beth bring here into Cort the Lre of Admcon to her the said Eliza
                  beth graunted of the goods and Chattells of the a foresayd Daniel
                  Johnson that it may appeare to the Cort here that they have
                  Administration.
                   And the said Samuell Cressy by Benjamin Rozer his Attorney
                  comet[h] and Defendeth the force and injury when &c and prayeth
                  liberty of Speaki [ng] the reunto untill the E!eaventh day of ffebru
                  ary next being the first day of the next Provinciall Cort and the
                  same Day is given to both ptyes.
                   At wch day that is to say the Eleaventh day of ffebruary in the