( 197 )       March y^e 16^th 1692/3
(of the Said) Thomas Signed bringeth here unto Court, the date whereof is the day & year aforesd
(pledged) himself to be indebted to the said Wm.in his lifetime in the Said Sum of 1400=
Pounds of tobacco to be paid to the Said Wm. convenient to the which the Said Thomas bound
himself firmly by the said Bill Nevertheless the Said Thomas the Sum of 1400 Pounds of
tobacco to the Said Wm in his life time, nor to the Said Elizabeth while She was Sole and
unmarried nor to the Said George & Elizabeth Since the Marriage between them had and
Solemnized nor to any of them according to teno^r of the Said Bill hath not paid but hath
hitherto refused & doth Still refuse to the damage of the Said George & Elizabeth of 2800=
Pounds of tobacco & thereof they bring their Sute. Dent p^r Que^r  Pleg &ca   Jn^o Doe
    Rich:Roe}
 
Know all men by these p^resents that I Thomas Morris of Somerset County in Maryland
now living at m^r Rounds of Assateague, doe acknowledge & Confess my Self to be indebted
to Wm: Stevens of Rehobeth in the Same County of Somerset Merchant in the full & just
quantyty of fourteen hundred pounds of good Sound Merchantable tobacco & Caske to contain
the Same. due to be paid to the Said Wm:Stevens, his Extors Adm^rs or Assigns for the true p^rformance
of the Same I Thomas Morris bind my Self my Heirs Extors & Adm^rs  firmly by these
presents, it being for & in Consideration of the like value given the said Morris to Anne B
Roberts, as Wittness my hand the 8^th-day of October 1686.
Signed & delivered in p^rsence of us.                                                       Thomas Morris
   James:Round.
   John: Vigerous //        Upon the back of y^e foresd Bill was writt recd 6.bush Mault
at 40^lb. p^r Bush. C  240:  Ball due 1160 // which the sd
Morris did in Open Court Confess: judgm^t for. Ord^r granted p^r Court
for the Same alias Executio . ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~
 
George Layfield et Uxor      Somerset County Ss //
Plts Contra            }   John Coleston late of this County was Sumoned to answer
Jn^o: Coleston Dft                              unto Ge Layfield Esq^r. & Eliz: his Wife Extrix of
~      ~     ~      ~      ~                           Co^ll Wm. Stevens deceased of a plea that he render unto
them the Sum of thirteen hundred pounds of tobacco which from them he unjustly detains
And whereupon the Said George & Eliz.by Peter Dent their Attorney Say that the Said
John the (10^th) day of Decemb^r in the year of our Lord 168(7) at Pocomoke within y^e Jurisdicon