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to purchase Tobacco in this Province and sent the Same into this
Province by the said deft to bee sold for the Joynt accompt of the
said John and Thomas Jones and the said Thomas Bisse Upon which
Negatiacons of the said Defts for the said plt there did arise seav-
erall differences and Law suites betweene the said plt and the said
Deft in Bristoll aforesaid, and thereupon the said plt and deft in
Bristoll aforesaid the third day of August 1676 by Mediacon of
ffriends Came to an end of all differences betweene them & Released
and discharged Each other by Release in writeing under their hands
and seales bearing date the day and Yeare aforesaid Saveing Ex-
cepting and Reserveing alwayes to them and Either of them all such
Accompts and Dependences betweene them the said partyes as did
Concerne their Virginia and Maryland Trade in partnershipp as
aforesaid Joyntly & equally betweene them and the said Thomas
Bisse as by the said Writeing of Release more att Large it doth
appeare, And Whereas afterwards (to witt) the Two and Twenty-
eth of September 1677 The said John England Thomas Jones and
Thomas Bisse att the Citty of Bristoll aforesaid did Come to an
accompt together of and upon all matters and things that did relate
or Concerne to the said partnershipp betweene the said plt and the said
Deft and the said Thomas Bisse, and there was found Remaining in

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the hands of him the said Thomas Jones or in the hands of John
Brooke of Dorchester County gentt as Attorney of the said deft
by the order & authority of the said deft of the proper Tobacco of
the said plt deft and Thomas Bisse in partnershipp as aforesaid the
Sume of Twenty nine thousand one hundred & foure pounds of
Tobacco, and the said partners haveing soe as aforesaid adjusted
their said accounts, and the said plt haveing w^th the privity and Con-
sent of the sd Deft purchased of the said Thomas Bisse his third
part of the said Twenty nine Thousand one hundred and foure
pounds of Tobacco according to the Custome of March^ts There ap-
peared to remaine due from the said deft to the said John England
for the Two third parts of the said sume of Twenty nine thousand
One hundred & foure pounds of Tobacco The sume of Nineteene
thousand foure hundred and two pounds and two thirds of a pound
of Tobacco, And the said Thomas Jones did then and there give
unto him y^e said John England a Certaine writeing und^r the hand of
him the said Thomas directed to the said John Brooke his Attorney
Whereby hee did acquaint him the s^d Jn^o Brookes that the said
Twenty nine Thousand One hundred and foure pounds of Tobacco
was in Partnershipp betweene him the said Thomas Jones the said
John England and the said Thomas Bisse, and that the said Bisse
had Ordered him the said Thomas Jones to pay his the said Bisses
third part thereof unto the said John England, & therefore hee the
said Thomas Jones Did order him the said John Brookes to pay or
Cawse to bee paid to the said John England Two third parts of the
said Twenty nine thousand one hundred and foure pounds of To-

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