Provincial Court Proceedings, 1679/80. 117

but for ffoure yeares each of them, and that theire time of servitude
is expired Itt is therefore Considered that the said Thomas Smith
Robert Jones, Ellis Thomas and Lewis Merreddy are ffree, and
Ordered that theire said Masters Thomas Doxey, Thomas Keeting
and Marke Cordea pay them theire freedome Corne and Cloathes

Whereas, heretofore to witt the ffifteenth day of Octob^r Annoq
Domnij. One thousand six hundred seaventy eight, att a Provinciall
Court then and there held at the Citty of s^t Maryes, Itt was ordered
that the Sheriffe of Charles County ffor the secureing the estate of
John Sanders who is ffled out of this Province, that it might not
bee imbezilled, Doe take and seize into his hands such and soe much
of the Estate of the said John Sanders as are to be ffound within
his Baliwick And Whereas Afterwards (to witt) the ninth day of

Liber W. C.

October last past, Sam^ll Raspin ffactor and ajent of Nicholas Page
Thomas Welborne & Amos Bonvile informed this Court, that by
meanes and colour of the afores^d order and Judgm^t ffor ffifty two
thousand pounds of tobacco debt with ffive hundred fforty foure
pounds of tobacco costs of suite, obtained by the said Nicholas
Page Thomas Welborne and Amos Bonvile against the said John
Sanders the Eighteenth day of June One thousand six hundred
seaventy eight is rendred ffruitles and ineffectuall, And humbly
prayed that the said Order might bee sett apart & made voyd w^ch
was accordingly ordered by the Justices of this Court
Nowhere att this day to witt the Twelfth day of ffebruary in
the fifth yeare of the Dominion of the Right hono^ble Charles L^d
Baltemore &c Annoq Dominj one thousand six hundred seaventy
nine, the aforesaid Samuel Raspin ffor and on the behalfe of the
said Nicholas Page Thomas Welborne and Amos Bonvile informed
this court that the estate of the said John Sanders is attached in the
hands of his Debt^rs suite the aforesaid Nicholas Page Thomas
Welborne and Amos Bonvile, soe that noe effects is to be ffound
wherewith the said judgment may bee satisfied, and humbly re-
quested that the estate of the said John Sanders Secured and Seized
by the sheriffe of Charles County by vertue of the order afforesaid,
may be ordered to satisfie the aforesaid Judgment of the said Nicolas
Page Thomas Welborne and Amos Bonvile Notwithstanding any
Attachm^ts thereon laid, WHEREUPON Itt is ordered by the Court
here, what goods Chattells or debts were seized on and taken into
custody by the sheriffe of Charles County by vertue of the aforesaid
Order Bee and is hereby adjudged lyable to satisfie the aforesaid
Judgment of the said Nicholas Page Thomas Welborne and Amos
Bonvile, before any other debt, Notwithstanding any Attachm^ts
thereon Laid att the suite of any person whatsoever, By reason an
Execucon upon the Judgm^t afforesaid was impleaded by the Ord^r
of this Court ffor secureing the Estate of the said Sanders as
aforesaid

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