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Febry Court 1700 30 Pounds of Tobo. Debt as alsoe ye Sume of one hundred ninety and five pounds of Tobo cost of Suite and ye Samuel Taylor in mercy Jno Dowdall Clk Comand was given to ye Sherf. of Kent County ye 28. day of March Annoq Domi. that he Take Isaac Bowles if found in his bailiwick and him Safe keepe Soe that he have his body before his majties Justices at a Court to be held for Said County ye fourth Tuesday of June next to Answer unto Isaac Davis of A plea of Trespass upon ye Case Att which Court Vizt. ye 25. day of June Anno Domi. 1700 ye Day of ye returne of Said writt Came Elias King high Sherf. of Said County & made returne of Said writt thus Endorsed Vizt. Non Est Inventus pr Elias King Sherf. Comand was likewise given to ye Said Sherf. of Kent County ye 26. day of June Annoq Domi. 1700 that he Take Isaac Bowles if found in his bailiwick and him Safe keepe Soe that he have his body before his majties Justices at A Court to be held for our Said County ye fourth Tuesday of August next to Answer Isaac Davis of A plea of Trespass upon ye Case Att which next Court Vizt. ye 27. day of Augt. ye day of ye returne of Said writt Came Elias King high Sherf. of Said County and made returne of Said writt in these words Vizt. Cepi Corpus pr Elias King Sherf. On which Said Day ye Said Defendt. by Michael Earle his Attry appeares and prayes thereof to Imparle untill ye next which was granted unto him ye Same Day is given to ye Sherf plaint. likewise Which Case being Cont. from Court to Court untill this prsent Vizt ye Eleventh Day of Febry Annq Domi. 1700 ye Said Cause Standing for Tryall ye plaint. Decln. Vizt.
Defendt. pretending A right & property in and unto A Certaine Mary Addames & ye Said Mary at Kent County within ye jurisdiction of this Court ye first Day of Janry Anno Domi. 1699 unto ye Said plaintf. for ye Sume of four pounds Sterg. one galln of Rum & four pounds of Suggar as a Servant did Sell and deliver which Said Sum of four pounds Sterg. one galln. of Rum [&] four pounds of Suggar ye Said plaintf unto ye Said Defendt. did honestly & puntuall Satisfie pay and whereas ye Said Mary Addames Afterwards that is to Say Att a Court held for ye Said County in ye Month of Janry Anno Domi. 1699 did by hir petition represent to ye Court that She was not a Servt. to ye Said Defendt. and therefore by her Said peticon humbly prayed this Court that She might be acquitted and discharged from Servitude upon which peticon of ye Afsd. Mary Addames it was then & there Considered by ye Court that ye Said Mary Addam[es] was A freewoman and that ye Said Defendt. had noe right or property in or to ye Said Mary nor ye Said plaintf. by virtue of ye Afsd. Sale Soe as Afsd. Made of ye Said Mary by ye Said Defendt. unto ye Afsd. plaint but that ye Said Mary be Utterly & Clearly Acquitted & Exonerated from [ye] Said Defendt. or any person Claiming any right property or Service to ye Said Mary by from o[r] under ye Said Defendt. in consideration whereof ye Said Defendt. upon himselfe Assumed and unto ye Said plaintf faithfully promised that he ye Said Defendt. wh[en there]unto Afterwards required ye Sume of four pounds Sterg. one Galln of rum and four po[unds of Su]ggar Soe as Afsd. paid by ye Said plaintf. to ye Said Defendt. he would well & Truly Co[ntent &] pay yet Neverthe :less ye Said Defendt. his promise and Assumption not minding nor regarding but plotting contri[v] :ing & knavisly designing ye Said plaintf. in this behalfe craftily & Subtilly to decieve and defraud ye Afsd. 4lb. Sterg. one galln. of rum and 4lb. of Suggar altho often demanded unto ye Said plaintf. ye Said Defendt. hath not paid but ye Same to pay hitherto he hath denyed and refused and Still doth deny and refuse to ye damage of ye Said plaintf. Eight pounds Sterg. and thereupon he brings this Suite Macklin pr qr. pledges &a. Jno Doe Richd. Roe |
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