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Well and truly pay or cause to be paid unto the above Named Wm Stevens his Certain Atto^rney Extors Adm^rs or assigns the full Sum

of five hundred Seaventy & one pounds of fatt Beef at or upon the first day of October next ensueing the date hereof at Some

Convenient place in Snow hill Landing without fraud or further delay. Then this Obligation to be void & of none effect, or

Else to Stand in full force & vertue                                                                         his

Sealed & delivered in p^rsence of                                                             William W Lawrence ❂ Sealed

                Walter: Lane                                                                                            mark

                Edmund: Howard

                                                    Upon y^e reverse of y^e foresd was writt as followeth (viz) Novemb^r y^e 18^th 1681

                Received of William: Lawrence three hundred & twenty pounds of Beef of this Bill within mentioned

                                                                                I say recd by me Oliver Berry .

                Received of Wm: Lawrence to Barrels & half Corn for y^e use of Co^ll. Stevens by me

                Novemb^r. y^e 19^th: 1684:                                                         Wm: Johnson.

                   The p^remises being Considered by y^e Wor^th Court, doe find acco^ts ballance, & no cause of accon found

                Andr: Whittington & Rich^d. Chambers Plts     Somerset County Ss//

                                    Contra                                     } Jonathan: Towers & Margarett his Wife Relict

              Jonathan Towers et Uxor Dfts. - - - -          Extrix of Wm: Galt late of this County Shoemaker

                 - - - - - - - - -                                  was attached to answer unto And:Whittington of the

Same County Innholder & Richard: Chambers Blacksmith in a plea of debt. - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

And whereupon the plts by their Attorney James Sangster Comes & Sayes, that the Said Jonathan: by his intermarriage with

Said Margarett his Wife & relick & Ext^rix of the Said Galt deceased is become & Stands justly indebted unto the plts in the

full & just Sume of two thousand eight hundred & Sixty four pounds of good Sound Merchantable tobacco, as doth and may

appear by a Certain Instrument under the hand & Seal of the Said Galt deceased, which Said Sum of 2864 lb of tobacco

being two thirds of the whole Sum of 4295 lb of tobb mentioned in the said Instrument & the Right of the Said

plts according to the tenour of the Same which is here in Court produced which Said Sum of 2864 lbl. of tobacco the

Said William Galt in his lifetime hath not paid nor y^e Jonathan or Margarett his Wife Since the decease of the said Galt

the Said Galt deceased. And the Said Deft Since his decease failing in the paym^t. or manner of paym^t Specified [in]

the Said Instrument as will more plainly appear, recourse thereunto had but fraudulently & Craftily intending to

deceive the plts of the Same hath hitherto denyed paym^t. & yett doth deny, though often thereunto required the plts

Say they are damnified & hath loss to y^e value of 4295 lb of tobacco, & thereupon brings this Sute.

                                                          Sangster p^r Que^r. pled pross { Jn^e Doe

                                                                                                                Rich:Roe}

                And the Dft by his Attorney Sam^ll. Alexander Sayes that by his intermarriage he is not become indebted to

                Said Andrew & Richard, for he was never Exto^r nor Adm^r of the Said Galt nor never was posessed w^th any

                Estate of the sd Galt & of this he puts himself upon the Court. Sam^ll Alexander p^r Dft.

                                             And the plt Sayes they are indebted as extors also in Law.. J: S:

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