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Provincial Court Proceedings, 1683. 431 Jones, Edward Ward, Richard Edelen Bryan Dailey, John Smith, Liber W. C. William Roswell, & Thomas Simpson, Who being elected tryed and sworne to say the truth in the prmisses Upon their Oathes doe say That the said Owen Newen is not guilty of the prmisses above by the plt Imposed upon him in manner and forme as the said ph. hath above declared against him, Itt is therefore considered by the Court here that the said James Mills take nothing by his writ aforesaid but be in mercy for his false clayme therein And that the said Owen Newen goe thereof without day. And that the said Owen Newen Recover against the said James Mills the Sume of One thousand two hundred eighty and two pounds of tobacco for his Costs and Charges by him about his defence in this behalfe Laid out and expended, And the said Owen may have thereof Execution John ILewellin The defendant by Kenelm Cheseldyn his Attorney agt appeares and Imparles untill the next Provinciall John Worth Court Abraham Hooke Stephen Murty late of St Maries County gent? p. 745 agt was attached to answere unto Abraham Hooke Stephen Murty of a plea of trespas of the Case And Whereupon the said Abraham Hooke by Anthony Underwood his Attorney complaineth That Whereas the said Stephen the ninth day of November 1682 was indebted to the said Abraham the sume of five thousand forty Eight pounds of tobacco for soe much he Assumed to pay to the said Hooke for one Samuel Jefferson, In consideracon whereof the said Stephen did assume upon himself and to the said Abraham did then and there faithfully promise That he the said Stephen him the said Abraham the said Sume of ffive thousand forty eight pounds of tobacco when hee should be thereunto required would well and truly consent and pay, Yett nevertheless the said Stephen his promise and asumption to the said Abraham soe as aforesaid made little regarding but deviseing and fraudulently intending him the said Abraham to de fraud & deceive The said sume of ffive Thousand forty eight pounds of tobacco according to the tenor of his promise and As sumption atoresaid hath not paid although the said stephen to doe the same hath been solemnly thereunto required (to wit) the twentyeth day of March att Newtowne Anno Doni. 1682 afore said in St Maries County aforesaid, but the same to pay hath denyed and still doth denye To the damage of the said Abraham Tenn thousand pounds of Tobacco And thereupon he bringeth his suite Memorandum That this day (to wit) the Sixth day of June Anno Donij One thousand six hundred & Eighty Three Before me Henry Darnall Esqr |
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