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Wm Densom made Oath in Open Court that he attended fourteen dayes

as Evidence for Wm Smullen agt Jeremiah Harris & humbly Craves

Order for the Same w^ch to him was granted &ca.

Richard Shockley made Oath that he attended for William Smullen

as Evid agt Jeremiah Haris Tenn dayes & humbly prayes Order

for y^e Same which p^r Court was granted &ca.

Donnam Olandman made Oath in Open Court that he attended Five

dayes as Evid for James Barry agt John Rowell & prayes Order

for y^e Same which to him was granted &ca.

John Barber made Oath that he attended the Court as Evidence

for Jeremiah Harris dft Wm Smullen plt on p^rt of y^e defend^t

nine dayes before m^r Sam Hopkins & m^r Edmund Howard .

Maryland Ss May the 4^th 1695

These presents Witnesseth that I Thomas Hill of Boston in New

England Marriner am firmly bound & Justly indebted unto Thomas

Jones of Anamessex in Somerset County Gent. in the full and just

Sum of one hundred pounds of Sterling money of England to [be]

unto the Said Thomas Jones his Heirs Extors Adm^rs or Assigns

Convenient upon demand to which payment well & truely to be made

& done I the sd Thomas Hill doe bind my self my Heirs Extors &

Adm^rs in the whole & for y^e whole firmly by these presents sealed

with my Seal & dated the day & year above Written &ca.

The Condicon is such that whereas the Said Thomas Jones

hath bought Two Negros of the sd Thomas Hill the one named

Ned the other Called Robin & for y^e Consideration of Seventeen

thousand Six hundred pounds of tobacco & Caske in hand pd Now

So it is that if the Said Thomas Jones shall from time to time

& at all times Have Hold & enjoy the sd Negroes without

out lett hinderance or molestation of any p^rsons or p^rsons w^tsoever

that this Obligation to be void or else to Stand remaine and be

in full force & Vertue &ca.               Tho. Hill ❂

Signed Sealed & delivered

in p^rsence of us — }

              John Brown

              The marke of R Robert Prentis

              The marke of O O Elinor Sampll

Memorandum that this day (viz) the 9^th day of 7ber an^o Domini

1695 Came Robert Prentice & Elinor Sample & made Oath upon

the holy Evangelists that they See this Within said Hill Seal

Sign & deliver y^e within Sd Bond as his Act & deed before me

                                                                 Thomas Dixon

     Test West Clr Cur Comit Somerset

                            Courts adjourned till tomorrow at 8 a Clock