Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.   389

        Sweringen the said sume of three thousand pounds of tobacco to Liber N N
        him the said Symon Reider according to the tenor of the said bill
        obligatory though often thereunto required hath not paid, but the
        same to pay hath refused & denyed & to pay the same as yet doth
        refuse & deny, whereupon the said Symon Reider saith he is damni
        fled & hath losse to the Value of six thousand pds of tobacco &
        thereupon he bringeth his suite
          And the said Garret VanSweringen by Robert Carvile his At
        torney cometh & defendeth the force & injury when &c & prayeth
        liberty to imparle hereunto untill next Provinciall Court & itt is
        granted unto him the same day is given to the plt also
          Now here att this day to witt the Eighteenth day of June in the
        third yeare of the Dominion of Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annocp
        Doni 1678 came the said parties by their Attorneys aforesaid And
        the said Garret by his said Attorney saith, that he hath paid
        unto the said Symon two thousand thirty & five pounds of tobacco
        part of the said sume of three thousand pounds of tobacco And as
        for nine hundred sixty & five p4s of tobacco the remainder of the
        said sume of three thousand pounds of tobacco he is content that
        judgemt passe agt him for the same Therefore itt is granted by
        the Court here that the said Symon Reider recover agt the said
        Garret as well the sume of Nine hundred sixty & five pds of tobacco
        debt As also      pds of tobacco costs of suite.

        Bennet Marchegay Thomas Helgar late of Charles County other
           agt wise called Thomas Helgar of Charles County
        Tho: Helgarin the Province aforesaid planter was Sumoned
        to answer unto Bennet Marchegay in a plea
        that he render unto him the sume of three thousand & thirty pds of
        tobacco which to him he oweth & unjustly detaineth
          And whereupon the said Bennet by Kenelm Cheseldyn his At
        torney saith, that whereas the said Tho: Helgar the sixteenth day
        of ffebruary in the yeare one thousand six hundred seventy six, did
        by his certaine writeing obligatory sealed with the Seale of the said
        Thomas here in Court produced whose date is the same day & yeare
        above written, did binde himself e his heyres Exrs Admrs to pay or
        cause to be paid unto the said Bennet Marchegay of the County &
        Province aforesaid his Exrs Admrs the just & neate quantity of three
        thousand & thirty pds of tobacco sound & Mrchantable in cask att
        or upon the tenth day of Octobr next ensueing the date Thereof att p. 617
        some convenient landing in Portobacco Creek, itt being For divers
        goods & Mrchandizes formerly received by me of the said Bennet
        Notwithstanding which the said Thomas Helgar the said sume of
        three thousand & thirty pounds of tobacco though often required
        the same hath not paid to him the said Bennet according to the tenor
        of his said writeing obigatory, but the same to pay hitherto hath &