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Provincial Court Proceedings, 1679/80. 147
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wch the said Defendt, the said plt his debt aforesaid could satisfie,
to witt att Ann Arundell County wthin the Jurisdiccon of this Court,
and this hee hee [sic] prayeth may bee Enquired of by the Country.
Wch being read and heard the said plantiffe by his said Attorney
refuseth to make any further psecucon against the said Defendt
in the plea aforesaid. Therefore itt is Considered that the said plt
take nothing by his Writt butt bee in mercy for his false claime
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thereupon, and the said Defendt may goe thereof wthout day, and
alsoe that the said John Larkin administrator as aforesaid recovr
against the said James Mills the sume of Eight hundred twenty
foure pounds of tobacco for his costs & charges about his Defence
in this behalfe laid out and Expended. And the said John Larkin
may have thereof Execucon
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p. 132
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John Hartwell
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John Butcher
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John Butcher late of Charles County planter was
attached to answere unto John Hartwell of a plea of
trespas upon the case
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And whereupon the said John Hartwell by Robert
Ridgely his Attorney Complayneth that Whereas the said John
Butcher the two & twentieth day of October in the year of our
Lord 1678 stood indebted unto the said John Hartwell by bill under
his hand and Scale, the /Tull and Just sume of Eight thousand &
nine pounds of tobacco, and being soe indebted the said plt and deft
the said two and twentieth day of October in the year e aforesaid at
Charles County aforesaid came to an account of divers recconings
between them, & upon the recconing up of the said account it was
found that the said John Butcher him the said John Hartwell had
paid in part of the said bill, the sume of ffoure thousand one hun-
dred ninety & nine pounds of Tobacco, soe that there remayned
due to the said John Hartwell the day and yeare aforesaid, the
sume of three thousand eight hundred & tenn pounds of tobacco in
full of the said bill, The said John Butcher in case said John Hart-
well him the said bill of Eight thousand and nine pounds of tobacco
would deliver up, hee the said John Butcher did assume upon him-
selfe and to the said John Hartwell did ffaithfully promise, that hee
would then and there passe bill to him the said Hartwell for the said
sume of three thousand eight hundred and tenn pounds of tobacco
payable upon demand And the said John Hartwell in fact saith that
trusting to the pmisse & assumption of him the said John Butcher
to him soe as aforesaid made, hee did deliver up to the said John
Butcher the said bill of Eight thousand and nine pounds of tobacco,
& did then & there tender one bill to the said John Butcher payable
upon demand to the said John Hartwell for the sume of three thou-
sand eight hundred and tenn pounds of tobacco, the ballance of
the bill aforesaid, due to him as aforesaid, Yet the aforesaid John
Butcher his pmisse and Assumpcon soe as aforesaid made not
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