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Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8. 161 Rawbone in the now dwelling house of the said John Watkins & att Liber N N his owne costs & charges to finde & provide men sufficient & materials for the carrying on of the said worke & other worke hereafter men- coned vizt to plaister white wash & colour the new roome below & to seale the same, And to plaister white wash scale & colour the roome over the said new roome And to repaire p!aister & amend all the defects & wants of reparacon in the plaistring of three roomes in the old house All which worke is to be performed by the said James Rawbone or his assignes between the day of the date hereof & the last day of October next ensueing the date hereof That then this prsent Ob!igacon to be void & of none effect, or else the same to stand in full force & vertue, which being read & heard the said Richard Hill by Robert Carvile his Attorney cometh & defendeth the force & injury when &c and prayeth liberty of speaking hereunto untill next Court & itt is granted him, the same day is given to the said John Watkins Now here att this day to witt the one And twentieth day of ffebru ary in the third yeare of his Lordpps dominion &c Annoq Doni 1677. came the said John Watkins by his Attorney aforesaid & offered himselfe against the said Richard Hill in the plea aforesaid, but the said Richard came not but made default, whereupon the said John by his said Attorney prayed Judgmt against the Estate of the said James Rawbone for five thousand pounds of tobacco And itt is granted unto him Therefore itt is granted by the Court here that the said John Watkins recover Against the Estate of the said James Rawbone as well the said sume of five thousand pounds of tobacco As also y sume of one thousand seauenty & six pounds of tobacco costs of suite Pope Alvey John Jordaine of St Clements bay in the Province agt of Maryland gentt otherwise called John Jordaine of John Jordaine St Maryes County was Attached to Answer unto Pope Alvey of a plea that he render him Eight hun dred foote of poplar planke which to him to oweth & unjustly detaineth And whereupon the said Pope by John Jones his Attorney saith, that whereas the said John by his certaine writeing Obligatory under his hand & Seale dated the fourth day of August One thousand six hundred seventy foure here ready to be produced in Court, did binde himselfe & his heyres to Deliver unto the said Pope or to his p. 421 assignes the full & entire quantity of Eight hundred foote of good poplar plank upon the plantacon of Ann Jarboe in Brittaine bay sometyme between the date of the said writing & the last day of the said month of August as by the said writing may more plainly ap peare And although the said Pope hath often demanded the said John to deliver the said plank according to the said writeing ob!iga |
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