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Chancery Court, Chancery Record, 1671-1712
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       on Marriage w.th his wife settled on her or Trustees for her by Judgment or
       Recognizance sixty thousand pounds of Tobacco w.ch would take place of a
       bond being done in Consideration of Marriage and the said Garret haveing
       beene much afflicted w.th the Gripeing of the Gutts and was more like to
       Dye then to Live all w.ch made his Credito.rs Come soe feircely upon him
       That the Comp.lt left a Considerable sume of Tobacco in the Province and his
       Kinsman John Deery his Attorney and w.th him left all his bills bond &
       writeings and accompts hopeing the said John Deery would have paid his
       debts and have Received a Considerable sume of Tobacco to have loaded on board
       the said shipp but found Deery dead and his Concernes Neglected & the
       Comp.lt disaponted of Tobacco to Load the said shipp and his pson and Goods
       like to bee sued & taken in Execution  That the Deft impart of pay for the
       said Twenty Eight thousand Eight hundred and Eighty pounds of Tobacco due
       to bee payd the Comp.lt upon the 28.th day of october 1677 had drawne a Noate
       on Coll Vincent Lowe then high sheriffe of Talbott County for Fifteene
       thousand one hundred and Twenty pounds of Tobacco Payable to Derry the
       Comp.lts Attorney and Deery upon Creditt of that Noate upon the sixteenth
       day of Novemb.r drew a Noate on Coll Lowe for Tenn thousand pounds of tobacco
       to bee paid Thomas Matthews in Virginia but Coll Lowe refused to accept of
       it or pay the same  Whereupon Matthews sued the Comp.lt and the Complt
       to p.rsent Execution was forced to pay him in goods and sarvants at a Low rate
       to his greate dammage and the said Deery being dead and not haveing Rec.d one
       pound of the said Twenty Eight thousand Eight hundred and Eighty pounds of
       Tobacco Nor one pound of the said Twenty five thousand seaven hundred and
       fifty pounds of Tobacco to bee paid the said Tenth day of octob.r for the said
       Provisions the Defend.t administred the said Deerys Estate  And the Judge
       for Probate of wills and Granting Administrations being informed that the
       said Deery had in his Custody Seaverall bills bonds and Papers belonging to the
       Comp.lt Amounting to the sume of Three hundred thousand pounds of Tobacco &
       in pticuler the said Two bonds of the said Defend.ts  The said Judge caused
       the same to bee secured in a Chest locked and Delivered the Key thereof to one
       Edmond Dermott for the Comp.lts use till the Comp.lt Came into the Province
       That the Comp.lt being Arrived Could not get his papers and writeings and in
       pticuler the said defts two bonds till the middle of June  That the Comp.lt at
       his Arrivall did Acquainte the defend.t that hee had brought in all the
       Provisions hee was bound to Deliver and that hee was then Ready to deliver
       the same but desired to Know where the def.t would ord.r him his Tobacco
       according to the said bond  The Deft told the Comp.lt hee had noe Tobacco left
       but that if the Comp.lt would stay till another yeare hee would pay the Comp.lt
       but the Comp.lt told him hee Expected psent pay w.ch the said Deft said hee
       Could not doe and soe desired the Comp.lt to spare him for his owne use a hhd or
       Two of Malt and some small Quantity of the rest of y.e Provisions at the same
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