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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 y^e Dfts w^th Cost als Executio —

                     Cap^t. Wm: Whittington Enters his assent to y^e Court house to be at Dividing Creek

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These are to Certifie that I have attended as an Evidence between And. Whittington & Rich: Chambers plts &

Jon^a Towers dft 4 dayes & I humbly Crave an Order Rob^t. Miller. for y^e plts

                                                                        Sworn before me Jn^o King .

   Sampson Wheatley having attended four dayes besided Comeing & Going between Jn^o Kirke plt & Geo: Wilson

    dft on part of the plt Craves Order for Attendance // 11^th. of August 1693: Sworn before me Jn^o 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 11^th. 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 12^th. day of August for the County of

                            Somerset in the Province of Maryland Ann^o Domini: 1693 // - - - - -

              Com^rs p^rsent: m^r. ffra: Jenckins m^r. Sam^ll. Hopkins m^r. Tho: Jones m^r Edm^d. Howard. & Cap^t. Jn^o: King ~ ~

George: Layfield &ca Plts           Somerset County Ss //

                     Contra }        Wm: Laws late of Somerset County was attached to answer unto George Layfield, Esq^r

William: Laws Dfend^t.               & Eliz. his Wife Extrix of y^e last will & Testam^t of Co^ll. Wm:Stevens decd of a plea

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~               of trespass on y^e Case &ca. ____ And whereupon the said George & Eliz by Peter [Dent]

                                                                their Attorney Complains that whereas the said Wm:Laws the day of in y^e year of

Our Lord 1685 at Monacan within the Jurisdiction of this Court was indebted to y^e sd Co^ll. Wm: Stevens in his lifetime

in the Sum of five hundred pounds of tobacco being as well for four hundred pounds of tobacco at y^e Speciall [inss- - ]

and request, and for y^e debt of the said Wm: Laws, by y^e said Co^ll Wm Stevens pd unto one Cap^t Marshall as also

for One hundred pounds of tobacco by the sd Stevens for y^e 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 y^e 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 y^e death of the sd Wm

Stevens while She was Sole & unmarried, nor to y^e 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 y^e damage - - -