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Provincial Court Proceedings, 1679/80. 359
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& Just quantity of five thousand forty eight pounds of good sound
Tobacco and Cascp Sufficient to Containe the same att or Upon
the Tenth day of October next Ensueing the date of the said bill or
writeing obligatory, or after Upon Demand, att the then dwelling
house of him the said Thomas Vaughan in greate Chaptanke River
Notwithstanding wch the said Thomas Vaughan the said sume of
five thousand forty eight pounds of Tobacco to the said Robert
Yeates & William Jones nor either of them hath not payd according
to the Tenor of the said bill or writeing obligatory Although often
thereunto required, but the same to pay hath denyed and as yet doth
denye Whereupon the said Robert Yeates and William Jones say
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Liber VV. C.
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they are Damnifyed and have Losse to the Vallue of Tenn thousand
pounds of Tobacco, And thereupon they bring their Suite
And the said Thomas Vaughan by Robert Carvile his Attorney
cometh and Defendeth the force and injury when &c and prayeth
liberty to imparle hereunto untill next Provinciall Court and it is
granted unto him the same day is Given to the plantiffe likewise
Now here att this day (to witt) the Two & Twentyeth day of
February in the sixth yeare of the Dominion of the Right Honoble
Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annoq Dominj 1680, Came the Said
Robert Yeates and William Jones by their Attornyes aforesaid
and offered themselves against the said Thomas Vaughan in the plea
aforesaid, but the said Thomas came not but made default There-
fore Itt is Considered by the Court here that the said Robert Yeates
and William Jones Recover against the said Thomas Vaughan
aswell the aforesaid sume of Five thousand forty Eight pounds of
Tobacco debt, as also the sume of ffive hundred ninety eight pounds
of Tobacco costs of suite, And the deft in Mercy &c
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p. 328
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Ninian Beale
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Seth Biggs
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Seth Biggs late of Calvert County was attached to
answere unto Ninian Beale of a plea wherefore by
force and Armes foure hogshds of Tobacco of the
prop goods and Chattles of him the said Ninian hee
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did take and Carry away and other harmes to him did doe &c
And whereupon the said Ninian Beale by Charles Boteler his At-
torney Complaineth That Whereas the said Seth Biggs Upon the
sixteenth day of May in the yeare of our Lord 1680 att the Westerne
branch of Petuxent River in Calvert County by force and Armes,
ffoure hogsheads of Principall good bright pickt and Guild Tobacco
Containing Sixteene hundred pounds of Neate Tobacco of the
Vallue of sixteene pounds sterl of the prop goods and Chattles
of him the said Ninion, hee did take and Carry away and other harmes
to him did doe, against the Peace and to the damage of him the
Said Ninian Beale Whereupon the said Ninian sayth hee is damni-
fyed & hath losse to the Vallue of Twenty pounds sterl, and there-
upon hee bringeth his suite
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