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( 24 ) The premises being Considered after 5 Evidences Sworn & examined, a Ballance being made & found to be due to the plts 2504 pounds of tobacco which this Court grants Order for agt ye Dfts wth Cost als Executio —
Capt. Wm: Whittington Enters his assent to ye Court house to be at Dividing Creek ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ___________ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ________ ~ ~ ~ ~ These are to Certifie that I have attended as an Evidence between And. Whittington & Rich: Chambers plts & Jona Towers dft 4 dayes & I humbly Crave an Order Robt. Miller. for ye plts Sworn before me Jno King . Sampson Wheatley having attended four dayes besided Comeing & Going between Jno Kirke plt & Geo: Wilson dft on part of the plt Craves Order for Attendance // 11th. of August 1693: Sworn before me Jno King Crt Samuel: Marchment having attended two dayes as Evidence in a Contraversie depending in Court between Tho:Jones plt & Rich: Wharton: Dft on part of the plt Craves Order for attendance &ca // August 11th. 1693. Sworn in Open Court before me. Edmund. Howard //
Courts adjourned till tomorrow at 8. a Clock
At a Court held by their Maties Justices of the Peace the 12th. day of August for the County of Somerset in the Province of Maryland Anno Domini: 1693 // - - - - - Comrs prsent: mr. ffra: Jenckins mr. Samll. Hopkins mr. Tho: Jones mr Edmd. Howard. & Capt. Jno: King ~ ~
George: Layfield &ca Plts Somerset County Ss // Contra } Wm: Laws late of Somerset County was attached to answer unto George Layfield, Esqr William: Laws Dfendt. & Eliz. his Wife Extrix of ye last will & Testamt of Coll. Wm:Stevens decd of a plea ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ of trespass on ye Case &ca. ____ And whereupon the said George & Eliz by Peter [Dent] their Attorney Complains that whereas the said Wm:Laws the day of in ye year of Our Lord 1685 at Monacan within the Jurisdiction of this Court was indebted to ye sd Coll. Wm: Stevens in his lifetime in the Sum of five hundred pounds of tobacco being as well for four hundred pounds of tobacco at ye Speciall [inss- - ] and request, and for ye debt of the said Wm: Laws, by ye said Coll Wm Stevens pd unto one Capt Marshall as also for One hundred pounds of tobacco by the sd Stevens for ye said Laws paid unto one James Obratten which said [two] Sums amounts to the Sum of five hundred pounds of tobacco and the Said Wm:Laws to ye Said Wm: Stevens in his life time in manner aforesd being indebted did assume upon himself & to the Said Wm: Stevens in his lifetime then and there faithfully promise that he the said Wm: Laws the said Sum of five hundred pounds of tobacco when he should be thereunto requested, would well and truly Content & pay, Nevertheless the said Wm: Laws his promise & assumption not regarding but minding & fraudulently intending him the said Wm:Stevens in his life time Craftily & Subtilly to deceive & defraud, the same to the sd Wm: Stevens in his life time nor to the said Eliz. after ye death of the sd Wm Stevens while She was Sole & unmarried, nor to ye said George & Elizabeth Since the marriage between them had and Solemnized, nor to any of them hath not paid, but hath hitherto refused and doth Still refuse to ye damage - - -
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