124 PRINCE GEORGES COUNTY

Andrew Hurd Debtor 1696.

lbs. tobaccoe

To your Assumption to pay for John Macknew 75, to your Assumption to pay
for Daniell Pope 50 .................................................. 125

To 15 1/2 dayes worke per Daniell Connell 165, to 1 pair of fall Shews 60,
to 3 gallons Syder at 20 per gallon 60 .................................. 285

410

The plantiffe by his Attorney aforesaid Sues the Defendant in a plea of trespass
upon the Case etc. And haveing Issued out one writt against the defendant which
Said writt was Returned by the Sheriffe that the said Andrew Hurd was not to be
found in his baliwicke And Likewise have Caused a Coppy of the decleration and
Account to be Left at the house were the Said Andrew Hurd Last Lived at in this
County and alsoe on part of the Said William Philmore it is testified here that
the Said Andrew Hurd hath Elloined himselfe out of the Jurisdiction of this
Court.

Whereupon the Said William Philmore by his Attorney aforesaid prayeth that
he may have an Attechment against the goods Chatties and Creditts of the Said
Andrew Hurd as well for the Sume of four hundred and tenn pounds of tobaccoe
the Debt for damages aforesaid as alsoe the Sume of four hundred forty five
pounds of tobaccoe to the Said William Philmore at his Request for his Costs
and Charges in this behalfe Sustained According to Act of Assembly in Such
Cases made and provided etc. And by the Court here it is granted unto him etc.

Samuell Harwood plantiffe: Hugh Ryley Defendant.

Prince Georges County Ss. Hugh Ryley Late of Prince Georges County
planter was Atteched to Answer unto Samuell Harwood of a plea of trespass
upon the Case etc.

And whereupon the Said Samuell by James Cranford his Attorney Complaineth
that whereas the Said Hugh the 7th day of September in the yeare of our Lord
1696 at Charles Towne within the Jurisdiction of this Court was Indebted unto
the Said Samuell in the Sume of four hundred pounds of tobaccoe being Soe
much tobaccoe that he the Said Hugh did Ingage to pay to the Said Samuell
for one William Goodman upon the Account of one Larkin Chew and to be
paid on the tenth day of October 1696 as by a note Subscribed with the
proper hand writeing of the Said Hugh and here in Court produced may
more Appeare and the Said Hugh to the Said Samuell in manner aforesaid
being indebted Inconsideration thereof did Assume upon himselfe and to the
Said Samuell faithfully promise that him the said [Hugh] him the Said Samuell
the Said Sume of 400 lbs. of tobaccoe the Said tenth day of October aforesaid if
thereunto Requested would well and truly Content and pay Nevertheless the
Said Hugh his promise and Assumption aforesaid not at all Regarding but mind-
ing and Fraudulently Intending him the Said Samuell in this behalfe Craftily
and Subtilly to deceive and defraud the Said Sume of 400 lbs. of tobaccoe to the
Said Samuell hath not paid Although the Said Hugh to doe the Same by the
Said Saumell the Said 10th day of October aforesaid att Charles Towne aforesaid
was often thereunto Requested but the Same to pay to the Said Samuell hath
hitherto denyed to pay and Still doth denye to the damage of the Said Samuell of
800 lbs. of tobaccoe and thereupon he brings this Suite etc.

James Cranford. Pledges etc. John Doe, Richard Roe.