Provincial Court Proceedings, 1676. 203

         Nehemiah Blackiston Arthur Thompson late of St Maryes County Liber N N
            agst was Attached to Answer unto Nehemiah
    Arthur Thompson Blackiston in a plea of trespas upon the Case
                       And whereupon the said Nehemiah by
        Kenelm Cheseldyn his Attorney Complaineth, that whereas the said
        Nehemiah the nineteenth day of November in the yeare of our Lord
        One Thousand six hundred Seaventy foure did Sell & deliver unto
        the said Arthur divers Goods & Merchandizes amounting in the
        whole to the Sume of Eight hundred and nineteene pounds of tobacco
        a particuler whereof is here in Court produced In consideration
        whereof the said Arthur did Assume upon himself e & to the said
        Nehemiah did faithfully promise that he the said Arthur when
        thereunto required the same to him the said Nehemiah would well
        & truely content & pay Notwithstanding which the said Arthur the
        said Sume of Eight hundred & nineteene pounds of tobacco to him
        the said Nehemiah hath not paid though often required but the
        same to pay hitherto hath & still doth deny to pay to the damage of
        the said Nehemiah the Sume of sixteene hundred pounds of tobacco
        & thereupon he bringeth his Suite
         And the said Arthur Thompson by John Jones his Attorney
        cometh & defendeth the force & injury when &c & prayeth lycence to
        Imparle hereunto untill next Provinciall Court, the same day is
        given to both partyes
         Now here att this day to witt the tenth day of Aprill in the first
        yeare of his Lordshipps Dominion &c Annoq Doni One Thousand
        six hundred Seaventy six came the said Arthur Thompson by his
        Attorney aforesaid, & saith, that as to seaven hundred seventy five
        pounds part of the said Sume of Eight hundred & nineteene pounds
        of tobacco he cannot game say because he oweth the same unto the
        said Nehemiah Blackistone in manner & forme as is above declared
        against him Therefore itt is Granted by the Court here that the said
        Nehemiah Blackiston recover against the said Arthur Thompson
        the Sume of Seaven hundred Seaventy five pounds of tobacco dam-
        ages occasioned by the trespasse aforesaid As also the Sume of
                 pounds of tobacco Costs of Suite
        April 14th 1676.                           p. 130
         Upon the Petition of Hugh Brulanghan and Rose O Daniel Serv-
        ants to Charles Hutchins of Somersett County and Robert Wilson
        of the same County. That the petitionrs came into this Province
        Servants to Mr John Derry and were to serve by Indentures under
        their hands & seales for the terme of foure yeares & no longer after
        the day of their Arrivall into this province Mr Derry assigned Over
        the petitioners to Edward Lappage merchant, who sold the peti-
        tioners for the Custome of the Country contrary to the true intent
        & meaning of their Indentures which the said Lappage would not
        deliver up to the petitioners.