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Provincial Court Proceedings, 1678. 75
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Att which said ffifteenth day of October in the yeare aforesaid
came as well the said Thomas Smith by Christopher Rousby his
Attorney as the said John Dormand by Robert Ridgely his Attorney
And the Jurors impannelled being called likewise came to witt
Richard Boughton, Robert Mason, Thomas Doxey, John Doxey,
James Rumsey, Tho: Bowdle, Tho: Osborne, Lewis Blangy, Tho :
Mountford, Henry Howard, Tho: Gilbert & Richard Hodgson who
being elected tryed & sworne to say the truth in the prmisses upon
their Oaths doe say that the said Thomas Smith hath sustained
darnages by occasion of the prmisses to ffive thousand five hundred
& forty pounds of tobacco Therefore itt is granted by the Court
here that the said Thomas Smith recover agt the said John Dormand
the aforesaid sume of five thousand five hundred & forty pounds
of tobacco darnages by the Jurors aforesaid in forme aforesaid
assessed And the said Jno Dormand in mercy
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Liber N N
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ffrancis Dorrington
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Jno Sunderland Adr
James Humes
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Comand was given to the Sheriffe of St Maryes
County, that whereas John Sunderland late of
the Cliffts in Calvert County planter Admr of
the Goods & Chatties of James Humes was
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Attached to Answer unto ffrancis Dorington
in a plea of trespas on the case &c for that whereas upon the fifteenth
day of May in the yeare of our Lord God One thousand six hundred
seventy & six att the then dwelling house of the said James Humes
certaine communicacon was had & moved between the aforesaid
ffrancis Dorington & the aforesaid James Humes of & concerning
marriage between him the said ffrancis & one Sarah Humes naturall
daughter of him the said James Humes to be had & solemnized Upon
which communicacon he the said James Humes then & there in con-
sideracdn that the aforesaid ffrancis Dorington att the speciall in-
stance & request of him the said James would take to his wife the
aforesaid Sarah & would espouse the same Sarah according to the
rights & customes of this Province of Maryland, did assume upon
himselfe & to him the said ffrancis did then & there faithfully prom-
ise, that he the said James would well & faithfully content pay &
deliver to him the said ffrancis one full equall fourth part of all &
singuler the personall Estate of him the said James Humes the whole
being equally divided into foure parts And he the said ffrancis Dor-
rington in fact saith, that he the said ffrancis trusting to the faith-
full promise & assumption of him the said James aforesaid After-
wards to witt the nine & twentieth day of June in the yeare of our
Lord God one thousand six hundred Seventy & six att the house of
the said James Humes upon the Clifts in the said County of Calvert
did take to his wife the aforesaid Sarah, & the same Sarah according
to the rights & Customes of the Province of Maryland then & there
espoused Yet the aforesaid James little reguarding his promise &
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