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1672 Seaven and a halfe p Cent.o That the Defend.t haveing made sale of all the said Wynes and being called to an Account by the Complt for the same had Rendred an Imperfect Account which ought to have beene Rectifyed in that he had put in an excessive Rate for the hyre of Sloopes and men which he never hyred either, As also for Cooper to mend the Casque when there was not Occassion, And sold sev.rall of the said wynes for Two Thowsand pounds of Tobacco & Pipe when the Complt with the privity of the Defend.t had Agreed with the same psons for Two Thowsand Five hundred pounds of Tobacco & pipe whereby the said Complt and partner were Damnyfied Three Thowsand pownds of Tobacco at least And the Defend.t hath also Ommitted out of his Account Six barrells of wyne which was Stollen or drunck by his Servants who had the Key of the store which at foure hundred pownds of Tobacco p barrell Come to Two Thowsand foure hundred pownds of Tobacco besides he had Omitted these sumes and quantityes Following (vizt) Sold unto John Browneing Fourteene barrells of wyne for Seaven Thowsand pownds of Tobacco To M.r Measure One gallon To M.r Chaffe Two gallons To John Charles Two gallons To Matewood six gallons To Arthur Thomson one gallon in all Twelve gallons which amounted to the sume of Two hundred & Fortye pownds of Tobacco for all which e ought to have Accounted and ought to be allowed to the Complt and his Coepartner besides foure Barrells he had spent for his owne Family drinkeing which comes to Two Thowsand pounds of Tob As also the Complt and his partner are Damnifyed Foure Thowsand Eight hundred seaventy and five pownds of Tobacco in that the Defend.t had Contrary to the Complts order which he was to follow sold Thirty nyne Barrells more then the first Pypes for Two Thowsand pownds of Tob & pipe when he might and had order not to sell the same under Five & Twenty hundred pownds of Tobacco And the Complt Further shewed that the said M.r Nethway did give order To M.r William Taylor of Boston in New England to send into this Province vessells to take in the Tobaccoes which was the produce of the said wynes And Accordingly the said Willm Taylor did take freight upon the Endeavor of Boston whereof was Master Samuel Legg for Fifty Hogsheads of Tobacco at Twenty shillings p Hogshd and although the Complt did give order to the Defend.t to Lade the said quantity of Fifty hogshds of Tobacco and that the said Defend.t had in his hand reced of the produce of the said wynes more by much then would Answer the said Freight yet the Defend.t did Lade noe more then Thirteene Hogsheads of Tob and seaven Barrells of Porke wherby the Complt and his Coepartner were Damnifyed the sume of Thirty five pownds in money which the Defend.t ought in Equity to make good And the Defend.t Refused to let the Complt have the Remaynder of the produce of the said wynes or the Bills taken for the same that he might Endevor the recov.ry thereof to the Complt |
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