Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.    409

         in the full & just sume or quantity of two thousand & six hundred Liber N N
         pounds of good sound & Mrchantable tobacco & cask itt being for a
         grey gelding by the said Garret before the signing & deliuery thereof
         bought & received, which said sume or quantity of two thousand six
         hundred pits of tobacco the said Garret his heyres Exrs or Admts
         did promise & ingage to pay or cause to be paid unto the said Gasper
         Herman his assignes or certaine Attorney in some convenient place
         in Cecil County upon all demands after the tenth day of Octobr then
         next ensueing the date thereof, for the true performance whereof he
         the said Garret did binde himself e his heyres Exrs & Admrs firmly by
         those prsents Yet the said Garret the said sume of two thousand six
         hundred pounds of tob to him the said Gasper although often there-
         unto required according to the tenor of the said bill obligatory hath
         not paid, but the same to pay hath denyed & as yet doth deny, where
         upon the said Gasper Herman saith he is damnified & hath losse to
         the Value of foure thousand pds of tobacco & thereupon he bringeth
         his suite.
          And the said Garret VanSweringen in his proper person cometh &
         defendeth the force & injury when &c and saith nothing in barre
         or avoidance of the action aforesaid of him the said Gasper Herman,
         for that he oweth unto the said Gasper the aforesaid sume of two
         thousand six hundred pounds of tobacco Therefore itt is granted by
         the Court here, that the said Gasper Herman recover agt the said
         Garret VanSweringen as well the sume of two thousand six hundred
         pds of tobacco debt As also five hundred thirty six pits of tobacco
         costs of suite.

         Ralph Harwood Thomas Hinton late of St Maryes County other
            agt wise called Thomas Hinton of Black Creek in
       Tho: Hinton  St Maryes County in the Province of Maryland
                    Bricklayer was sumoned to answer unto Ralph Har
         wood in a plea that he render unto him the sume of three thousand
         five hundred pounds of tobacco which to him he oweth & unjustly
         detaineth
          And whereupon the said Ralph by Kenelm Cheseldyn his Attorney
         saith, that whereas the said Thomas Hinton the tenth day of June
         in the yeare one thousand six hundred seventy five did by his certaine
         writeing obligatory sealed with the seale of him the said Thomas
         here in Court produced whose date is the same day & yeare above
         written, binde himself e his heyres Exrs Admrs or assignes firmly
         by those prsents to pay or cause to be paid unto Ralph Harwood of
         London Mrchant or to his heyres Exrs Admrs or lawfull Attorney the
         just sume of three thousand five hundred pounds of good sound
         mrchantable leafe tobacco with cask to containe the same, & the said
         tobacco to be paid in some convenient place in the aforesaid County,
         or in Charles County att or before the tenth day of October next