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82 Provincial Court Proceedings, 1675. Liber N N of the said Richard and here in Court produced whose date is the day and yeare abovesaid did bind himselfe his heirs executors admrs or assignes to pay or cause to be paid unto the said Gervase Ballard his heirs executrs admrs or assignes the summe of seaven thousand eighty & One pounds of good sound merchantable tobacco in caske in Petuxent River upon demand notwithstanding which the said Richard though often demanded the said Summe of Seaven thou- sand eighty & One pounds of tobacco to the said Gervase according to the tenor of the said bill hath not paid but the same to pay hitherto hath denyed and still doth deny and refuse to the damage of the said Gervase fourteen thousand pounds of tobacco and thereupon he bringeth his suite. And the said Richard by Mathew Warde his Attorny cometh and defendeth the force & injury when &c and Prayeth liberty of Speake- ing hereunto untill the next Provinciall Court the same day is given to both parties. Now here at this day to wit the twelfth day of ffebruary in the yeare One thousand six hundred seventy five came the said Gervase by the Attorny aforesaid and offered himselfe against the said Rich- ard in the plea aforesaid and the said Richard came likewise and the said Richard saith that as to three thousand One hundred ninty six pounds of tobacco the remainder of the said Summe of seaven thousand eighty One pounds of tobacco he cannot gainsay for that he oweth unto the said Gervase the said summe of Three thousand One hundred ninty six pounds of tobacco Therefore it is granted by the Court here that the said Gervase recover against the said Richard Bayley aswell the summe of three thousand One hundred flinty six pounds of tobacco the debt aforesaid as also the summe of pounds of tobacco costs of suite. John Quigley James Lewis late of the County of st Maries other- agt wise called James Lewis of st Maries County in the James Lewis Province of Maryland planter was Sumoned to answer unto John Quigley One of the Attornys of the Pro- vinciall Court according to the priviledges &c in a plea that he render unto him twelve hundred seventy five pounds of tobacco which to him he oweth and unjustly deteineth And whereupon the said John in his proper person saith that whereas the said James the third day of March in the yeare of Our Lord One thousand six hundred seventy three did by his certaine writeing Oblig- atory sealed with the seale of him the said James and here in Court produced whose date is the same day and yeare abovewritten, bind himselfe his heirs executors and admts to pay or cause to be well & truly paid unto him the said John Quigley his heirs executors & admrs the just & full quantity of twelve hundred seventy & five pounds of good sound leafe tobacco in caske due to be paid the twelfth day of this instant march it being for and in consideration of his passage |
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