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        end of that prsent Genll Assembly shall be comenced & sued within Liber N N
        the tyme & lymitacon thereafter expressed & not after, that is to say,
        the said actions of the case (other then for slander) & the said actions
        for accompt, & the said actions for trespas debt detinue & replevin
        for Goods & Chattells, & the said actions of trespas quare clausum
        fregit within two years next after that prsent Sessions of Assembly,
        or within two yeares after the cause of such action & not after As
        by the said Act relation being thereunto had may more att large
        appeare. And itt appearing by the said Garretts own shewing in &
        by his said accompt that foure thousand two hundred thirty eight
        pounds of tobacco part of the said sume of foure thousand six hun
        dred fifty eight pounds of tobacco in the Declaracon menconed is
        above two yeares standing since the cause of Action The said John
        therefore as to the said sume of foure thousand two hundred thirty
        eight pounds of tobacco pleadeth the said Act of Assembly in barr,
        & as to foure hundred & twenty pounds of tobacco the remainder
        of the said accompt, the said John saith he aliwayes was & still is
        ready to pay, & thereupon demands judgemt if the said Garret his
        action aforesaid ought to have And the plaintiffe also Whereupon itt
        is considered by the Court here, the Declaracon & plea aforesaid being
        read & by the Justices here fully understood, that the said Garret
        recover agt the said John Blomfeild the sume of foure hundred &
        twenty pounds of tobacco damages occasioned by the trespas afore
        said And also         pounds of tobacco costs of suite

        Garre VSweringen James Mills late of Baltemore County planter p. 565
            agt      Exr of the last Will & Testament of Samuell
        James Mills Ext Boston deceased was Sumoned to Answer unto
        Sam' Boston Garret VanSweringen of a plea that he render
                     unto him the full sume & just quantity of Eleven
        thousand pounds of good sound Mrchantable tobacco & cask which
        from him he unjustly detaines
         And whereupon the said Garret VanSweringen by George Parker
        his Attorney saith, that whereas the said Samuell Boston the seventh
        day of April Annoq3 Doni One thousand six hundred seventy six by
        his certaine bond or writeing obligatory sealed with the Seale of the
        said Samuell Boston & here in Court produced whose date is the day
        & yeare first abovesaid, was holden & firmly bound to Garret Van
        Sweringen of the Citty of St Maryes in the Province of Maryland
        in the full sume & just quantity of Eleven thousand pounds of good
        sound & every way well condiconed Mrchantable tobacco & cask to be
        paid to the said Garret VanSweringen or to his certaine Attorney his
        Exts Admrs or assignes To which paymt well & truely to be made &
        done he the said Samuell Boston did binde himselfe his heyres Exrs
        & Admrs firmly by those prsent. Yet notwithstanding the said Samuell
        Boston in his life tyme nor the said James Mills since his death to