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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1690-1691
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xber 10th. 1690 ( 18 )
Know all men by these presents that I Joseph: ffreeman Carpenter of the County of Somerset in the
Province of Maryland my Heirs Execcutors or assigns am held and firmly bound unto Peter Whaples his
Heirs Execcutors Administrators or Assigns, six thousand pounds of tob good bright Sound merchantable
tobacco and Caske to be paid upon demand to the said Peter Whaples or his Certain Attorney Execcutors
Administrators or Assigns, to which payment well and truly to be made, I bind my Selfe my Heirs, Extrs
and Administrators firmly by these presents, Sealed with my Seal, dated the twenty ninth day of
december
in the year of our Lord 1688. Joseph: ffreeman: ? Sealed.
Charles: Tindall.
her
Jeane X Yeavous
marke

The Deposition of George Benson aged fourty Seaven years or thereabouts, Declareth that being
at worke at the house of William Harper sometime in September last past, did there hear Nick:
Hartman say that he was ready to give Peter Whaples his Bill for the tobacco that Joseph ffreeman
was indebted unto the said Whaples, provided the said Whaples, would deliver up the said ffreemans

Bill, But the said Hartman questioning whether the said Whaples had any Bill of the said ffreeman
and so went and forbid Capt Smith to pay any tobacco unto the said Peter Whaples and further ye depont
saith not signum
Sworne before us. 10 ber 9th. 1690 Geo: ?? Benson
Tho Jones
John: King
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The Deposition of Mary Webb, wife to Richard Webb, and Elizabeth wife to Lodowick: ffleming
Peter: Whaples and Nicholas: Harnell being at the house of Lodowick: ffleming. Peter Whaples
asked Nicholas: Hartnell, why he did not marry Mary ffreeman Nicholas: Hartnell replyed, what was
that to him. he would first Cast him and then Marry her afterwards, this the deponents sayeth and
not further Sworne before us 10ber. ye 9th. 1690. Thomas: Jones
Jno: King. ---
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The Deposition of Michael: Dunnahoe aged thirty one years or thereabouts saith that ye Deponant
being
at the house of Mary ffreeman Sometime in November in the year of our Lord 1689. Peter:Whaples
Came
to the said house and demanded of the said Mary some tobacco that was due to him from her husband Joseph
ffreeman, and at Severall other times the said Peter Came and demanded of the said Mary in a Rayling
abusive manner the said tobacco, the sum was about nine thousand pounds of tobacco, your Deponent saith that
he heard Nicholas Hartnell make severall offers to the said Peter in Order to the satisfaction of the sd
debt, Provided he would discharge the said Joseph and accept of him the said Nicholas for pay and lett
the said Mary ffreeman live in quietness, and the said Nicholas did deliver the said Peter a Bill of Capt.Henry
Smiths of about three thousand pounds of tobacco (as they said) and Offered him his Bill for the
remainder
upon which your deponent thought they had agree. Some time after your Deponent saith that having
Some discourse with the said Peter, he did hear him the said Peter say that he would not accept of the sd Nicholas
and release, the said Joseph and take an uncertainty for a certainty, for he did not know how soon Nicholas might
run away, when he had engaged for the said tobacco he not being a house keeper, and Joseph ffreeman was a house
keeper and might come sometime or other, replying to your Deponent, that he knew how to secure himselfe other
wayes. Your Deponent likewise saith, that he hear John: ffreeman, likewise offer him to pay two thousand pounds



 
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