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( 33 ) Cause if any he can ) wherefore he hath not complyed and paid the aforesd Servants wages hereof yu are not to fail at your peril. given under my hand this 26th. day of January 1690/1 David Browne To John White to be returned to Some Justice of Peace. The said Byfield and Hobbs both appearing this day nothing materiall being shown, is Quasht. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To the Worll. Comrs. of Somerset County in Court sitting The humble Petion of Edwd ffowler humbly sheweth That whereas your Petioner is appointed to keep the fferry of Wiccocomocoe River and is allowed 3000lb= Pounds of tobacco, but the place being troublesome & the River broad, yor Petioner humbly prays yr worps to add to Some allowance as yr worps shall think fitt and yr Petioner as in duty bound shall pray &c. The aforesd Petion being Considered, by the Court, have added to ye 3000 more 500lb. tobacco. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Owen Guider. Plt. Somerset County Ss. Patrick Reed Cordweiner in the County aforesd agt. was Sumoned to answer unto Owen Guider of St. Maries County in the Patrick: Reed Deft Province of Maryland in a plea of the Case. ===== And whereupon the - - - - - - - - - - - - plt by his Attorney Peter Dent Comes and Sayes, that in the year of our Lord God 1688. the plt Owen Guider, did Sell bargain & contract with the defendants father for one Robert: Reed, which at that time was the plts Servant, and bother to the deft, and at that time did Sell and deliver the sd Robert Reed unto his ffather in Consideration of three thousand pounds of tobacco, to be paid unto the said Owen:Guider as followeth one thousand two hundred in tobacco, Seven hundred & Seventy in Shoos, and the remainer in Indian Corne is tenn barels and three pecks which the deft did at yt same time assume upon himSelfe, if his sd ffather did not pay So the sd deft ffather hath paid the tobacco which was 1200. by way of Thomas Dixon, and shoos 13 pair) So that there is still due to the plt One thousand and thirty pounds of tobacco to be paid in Indian Corn at the prise of One hundred pounds of tobacco pr Barrel. which to pay the deft doth utterly deny although often thereunto required by y plt by which fraudulent means, the plt saith he is damnified to the value of twenty barrels of the like Corn and there upon brings his suit &c. --- Dent p Quer. Pledges of prosecuting Jno. Doe Rich: Roe The defendt Comes and Sayes that the plt declareth agt the defts ffather deceased, and doth not say that the deft did assume the bargain by the deceased, and deft no wayes obliged who hath not intermedled with part or parcell of the sd deceaseds Estate, So yt the action is laid wrong agt the deft and this he desires may be enquired of by the Country James: Sangster. And the Plt by his Attorney Peter Dent Saith that he hath declared agt the deft for the said defts assumption for the dt. of his ffather. deced. &c. Dent Declaracon being Read and Issue thus joynd, the whole matter being referred to a Jury of twelve good and lawfull men, who by the Courts Comand to the Sherriffe was forthwith Sumoned,impanneld and Sworn in Open Court, who having heard the foresd declaration and plea as also the Oaths of two Evidences on part of the plt. viz Thomas:Dixon and Robert:Read, having recd their Charge goes forth to determine the Same --- The Jurors names are as followeth viz. Rich: Chambers Walter:Taylor. Jno.Colhoon. John: Broughton. Matt:Dorman. Wm: Smullen. Tho: Larramore Thomas Tull. Benjamin Deards. Wm: Planner Junor. Jno: Panter Michael: Williams - - - -which aforesd |
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