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65 bearing Date on or about the nineteenth day of January seventeen hundred and eighty three due from a certain Thomas Clark to the aforesaid Edward Nicholls for the Sum of one hundred and twenty five pounds Specie with Interest from its date To have and to hold the said Negro Slaves above named together with their increase and all his the said Edward Nicholls right title and Interest to the note aforesaid unto the said Oneill and Deakins their Executors Administrators and Assigns forever to their only proper use and behoof Provided always and it is the true intent and meaning of these presents that if the said Edward Nicholls do and shall within the term of one year from the date hereof pay to the said Oneill and Deakins or their Assigns the aforesaid quantity of thirty three thousand four hundred pounds of fresh merchantable neat inspected Crop Tobacco with Interest from the first day of July instant then this instrument of writing and every clause therein contained shall be void and of none effect but if the said Edward Nicholls shall refuse neglect or omit to pay and deliver the said Tobacco together with Interest to the said Oneill and Deakins or their Assigns at the time limited for payment of the same that then and in such case they the said Oneill and Deakins and their Assigns shall have full power and Authority to set up and expose the said Negroes to public Sale and the monies arising therefrom to apply towards the payment and discharge of the aforesaid quantity of Tobacco at the Current price thereof at the time of receiving the said money And the said Oneill and Deakins for themselves their heirs Executors and Administrators Doth covenant and agree with the said Edward Nicholls his Executors Administrators and Assigns that they the said Oneill and Deakins in case of the receipt of the said Sum of one hundred and twenty five pounds Specie with Interest thereon on the note above mentioned from Thomas Clark that they will discount the same out of the Tobacco debt aforesaid at the Current price of Tobacco at the time the said Sum of money shall be received and the same shall be applied towards the payment and discharge of his the said Nicholls bond for the debt above recited In Witness whereof the said Edward Nicholls hath hereto set his hand and Seal the day and year above written Edw.d Nicholls (seal) Signed sealed and delivered in presence of R.d Ridgely On the back of the aforegoing instrument of writing was thus written Viz.t Received the day and year within mentioned of and from the within named Oneill and Deakins the Sum of thirty three thousand four hundred pounds of neat crop Tobacco the consideration within mentioned Edw.d Nicholls Witness R Ridgely County of Baltimore to wit On the 15.th day of July 1783 Came before me the Subscriber one of the Justices of the peace for the County aforesaid the within named Edward Nicholls and acknowledged the within Instrument of writing as his Act and Deed according to the true intent and meaning thereof acknowledged before Ab.m V.n Bebber Ex.d Recorded 21.th July 1783 Ex.d This Indenture made this thirty first day of July in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and eighty three between William Paca Esquire of the City of Annapolis of the one part and Robert Morris Esquire of the City of Philadelphia of the other part Witnesseth that the said William Paca Esq.r in consideration of the Sum of forty thousand pounds Continental Current money to the said William Paca Esq.r party hereto in hand paid by the said Robert Morris Esquire party to these presents the receipt whereof the said William Paca doth acknowledge and |
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