Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677. 5'

         One bill under the hand & Seale of John Pitt dated the 28th day of Liber N N
        December 1674 for 174 l tobacco.
         One bill under the hand & seale of George Robins dated 17th Octo
        ber 1675 for 1189 t tob whereof as appeares is received by endorse
        ment 964 1 of tobacco so remaines due only 224 l tobacco.
         By accompt in the hands of the Said Man to the value of Eight
        thousand two hundred & Seventy pounds of tobacco as by himselfe
        declared
         Being in totall twenty Six thousand nine hundred ninty & five
        pounds of tobacco.
                            p me Tho: Skillington sub Sheriff
         Which being read & heard it is the judgment of the Court here
        the fifth day of October in the yeare aforesaid & doe think ffitt &
        Order that the said Severall persons in whose hands the debts afore
        said due to the said Jarvis Barty doe remaine be Served with Scire
        facias to shew cause if any they have why they should not pay the
        Severall debts aforesaid to the said Edward Man or his Attorny
        or other Order, in pursuance of an Order of this Court concerning
        attachments of the 25th of April last past.

       Thomas Jones
           agt      the Sheriffs of Dorchester & Somersett Countyes
        Thomas Pattison haveing returned two scire fecit & neither plain-
        the Same tiff nor defts appeareing these causes continued
      agt           till December Court next.
       Mathew Nelson

       Moyes Executts
            Unlesse the defendant appeare next
            agCourt the Sheriff of Charles County
        Margery Stone exrx Math:
                             amerced.
         Stone

       Robert Ridgely Comand was given to the Sheriff of St Maries
           agt County that he take Alexander Younger if &c
    Alexander Younger  so that he have him here the Second day of
                     October 1677 to answer unto Robert Ridgely
        of a plea that he render unto him Eight hundred pounds of tobacco
        which to him he oweth & unjustly deteineth—Att which said second
        day of October the Same Sheriff maketh returne of the writ a fore
        said that the said Alexander Younger is not found in his Bailiwick
        Whereupon the said Robert prayed an attachment against the goods
        & chattells of the said Alexander according to Act of Assembly & it
        is granted by the Court here.

       Robert Ridgely Unlesse the deft appeare next December Court
           ag rthe Sheriff of Talbott County amerced.
       Thomas Hemington