194      Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.

             Liber N N unto them the whole & just Sume or quantity of one thousand
                    seven hundred ninety & foure pounds of good sound Mrchantable
                    leafe tobacco in caske which from them he unjustly detaineth
                     And whereupon the said Henry & ifrances by Robert Ridgely their
                    Attorney say, that whereas the said Garret the seventh day of March
                    one thousand six hundred seventy five, by his certaine bill Obligatory
                    sealed with the scale of the said Garret & here in Court produced
                    whose date is the day & yeare aforesaid, did acknowledge himselfe
                    to be oweing & firmly indebted unto the said ifrances by the name
                    of ifrances Hide the whole & just Sume or quantity of one thousand
                    seven hundred ninety & foure pounds of good sound Mrchantable
                p. 449 leafe tobacco in caske to be paid Att some convenient place in
                    St Maryes River att or upon the tenth day of October next ensueing
                    the day of the date of the same bill Obligatory And for good per
                    formance thereof the said Garret did binde himselfe his heyres Exrs
                    Admrs assignes & lawfull Attorneys Notwithstanding which the said
                    Garret the said sume of One thousand seven hundred ninety foure
                    pounds of tobacco to her the said ifrances while she was sole, nor to
                    the said Henry & ifrances since the Nuptialls between them cele
                    brated according to the tenour of the said bill Obligatory although
                    often thereunto required hath not paid, but the same to pay hath
                    denyed & as yet doth deny, whereupon the said Henry & ifrances
                    say they are damnified & have losse to the Value of two thousand
                    pounds of tobacco & thereupon they produce their suite
                     And the said Garret VanSweringen by Kenelm Cheseldyn his
                    Attorney cometh & defendeth the force & injury when &c and prayeth
                    liberty to imparle hereunto untill next Court & itt is granted him, the
                    same day is given to the plaintiffes also.
                     Now here aft this day to witt the three & twentieth day of ffebru
                    ary in the third yeare of the dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c
                    Annoq3 Doni 1677 came the said plaintiffes by their Attorney afore
                    said & offered themselves against the deft in the plea aforesaid, but
                    the defendt came not but made default, Whereupon itt is granted
                    by the Court here, that the said Henry & ifrances recover against
                    the said Garret the aforesaid debt of One thousand seven hundred
                    ninety foure pounds of tobacco As also five hundred thirty six pounds
                    of tob costs of suite

                    Garret VSweringen
                                     agt
                    James Mills Exr
                                 Sam' Boston
                    Henry Stocket & Ja:
                    Stavely Exrs Nath1
                                 Stiles agt.


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