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       At the request of Daniel Cheston the following Statute of Bankrupt was Recorded

Ex.d & dld
Char to J.s
Cheston AA Coty
       To all whom these Presents shall come I James Hughes
       Notary and Tabellion public by royal Authority duly admitted residing and practising in
       the City of Bristol in the kingdom of Great Britain Do hereby certify and make known that
       I the said notary did on the Day of the Date hereof carefully compare and examine the two
       special Paper writings hereunto annexed marked respectively with the Letters A and B the
       Paper writing marked with the Letter A purporting to be a true Copy of a Petition of Daniel
       Cheston of the City of Bristol Gentlemane preferred to the Right Honourable Henry Earl
       Bathwest late Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain praying that a Commission of
       Bankrupt might issue against William Stevenson of the City of Bristol late partner with
       William Randolph of the same City and James Cheston of the Province of Maryland
       in America Merchant for the purposes therein expressed and the paper Writing marked
       with the Letter B purporting to be a true Copy of a Commission of Bankrupt which issued
       under the Great seal of Great Britain in pursuance of such Petition And I do further certify
       that the said annexed Paper Writings are true and exact Copies of the said Original Petition
       and Commission And that the said William Stevenson was afterwards to wit on or about
       the third day of February  In the year of Our Lord One thousand seven hundred and seventy
       seven by Rowles Scudamore Esquire and Nathan Windey and Henry Bengough Gentleman
       being the Major Part of the Commissioners in and by the said Commission named and
                         authorized upon good Proof upon Oath found and duly declared a Bankrupt
                         and that the Estate and Effects of the said William Stevenson were afterwards
       by the said Commissioners upon a Choice of the Creditors of the ^said^ Bankrupt assigned and
       made over unto the said Daniel Cheston In trust for for the Benefit of himself and
       such Other Creditors of the said Bankrupt In Testimony whereof I the said notary
       have hereunto set my hand and Seal Notarial this sixteenth Day of July In the year
       of Our Lord One Thousand seven hundred and Eighty three
(Seal)
                                                                            James Hughes   Not.y Publick


                                           (A)
                      To the Right Honourable Henry Earl Bathurst Lord
                      High Chancellor of Great Britain

       In all humble manner complaining sheweth unto your Lordship your Orator Daniel
       Cheston of the City of Bristol Gentleman as well for himself as for all other the Creditors
       of William Stevenson of the City of Bristol late Partner with William Randolph of
       of the same City and James Cheston of the Province of Maryland in America Merchant
       That whereas the said William Stevenson using and exercising the trade of Merchandize
       by way of Bargaining Exchange Bartering and Churance suking his trade of
       living by buying and siting upon just and good Causes for Wares and Merchandizes
       to him sold and dilivered and also for ready Money to him lent being
       indebted unto your Orator in the Sum of ^One^ hundred Pounds or upwards of late (that is to
       say) About


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