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       & eight pounds tobacco when thereunto required would well & truely Liber N N
       content & pay Yet the aforesaid Margarett in her life tyme nor the
       said John since her death to whom Admcon of all & singuler the
       Guuds Chattels & Creditts of the said Margarett since her death hath
       been comitted the said sume of foure thousand three hundred & eight
       pounds of tobacco to him the said Thomas in his life tyme nor to the
       said Rebecca since his death to whom the ExecucOn of the testament
       of the said Thomas since the death of the said Thomas hath bin
       comitted, nor to the said John & Rebeccah since the Nuptialls be
       tween them celebrated hath not paid though often thereunto required
       but the same to pay have denyed & as yet doe deny to the damage
       of the said John & Rebeccah five thousand pounds of tobacco, & in
       retardacon of the Execucon of the said Thomas, & thereupon they
       bring their suite.
         And the said John Ireland by Kenelm Cheseldyn his Attorney
       cometh & defendeth the force & injury when &c and saith nothing in
       barr of the action aforesaid of them the said John Addison & Rebec
       cah his wife whereupon itt is granted by the Court here, the 20th of
       ffebruary 1677 that the said John Addison & Rebeccah his wife Exx
       of the said Thomas Dent recover against the Estate of the said
       Margarett Penroy aswell the sume of foure thousand three hundred
       & eight pounds of tobacco damages occasioned by the prmisses As
       also the sume of ffiue hundred fifty two pounds of tobacco costs
       of Suite

       Oliver Davis 1 Daniel Hamand late of St Maryes County planter
          agt was Attached to Answer unto Oliver Davis of a
       Daniel Hamandj plea of trespasse upon the case
         And whereupon the said Oliver Davis by Robert Ridgely his At
       torney complaineth, That whereas the said Daniel Hamand between
       the first day of ffebry One thousand six hundred seventy five, & the
       last day of Octobr One thousand six hundred seventy six bought
       had & received of the said Oliver divers Goods & Merchandizes
       amounting to the sume of fourteene hundred & eleven pds of tobacco p. 407
       And also received to & for the use of the Said Oliver severall sumes
       of tobacco amounting to the sume of Eight hundred pds of tobacco,
       a particuler aswell of the said Goods & Mrchandizes as also of the
       said tobaccoes received the said Oliver here in Court produceth
       amounting to in the whole the sume of two thousand two hundred &
       eleven pounds of tobacco In consideracon whereof the said Daniel
       did assume upon him selfe & to the said Oliver did faithfully promise,
       that he the said Daniel to him the said Oliver the said sume of two
       thousand two hundred & Eleven pounds tobacco to him the said
       Oliver when thereunto required would well & truely pay Yet the
       aforesaid Daniel Hamand his promise & assumpcon so as aforesaid
       made not reguarding but deviseing & fraudulently intending him