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June Court
1724
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Justices of his Lordships County Court of Somersett to be held at Dividing Creek ^the^ third tuesday of June then next to answer unto John Banister of a plea of trespass upon the Case &c and that thereof he should not fail &c And the said John Banister by Levin Gale his attorney declared against the said Alexander Carlyle in the plea afd as followeth viz.t Somersett County fs Alexander Carlyle Late of Somersett County Gentl: was attached to answer unto john Banister of a plea of trespass upon the Case &c And whereupon the same John by Levin Gale his attorney Complaines that Whereas the afd Alexander the tenth day of June one thousand seven hundred & twenty at the County afd within the Jurisdiction of this Court was Indebted unto the same John in the sum of twenty two hundred and forty six pounds of good sound merchantable Tobacco for the Like Sum received for the use of the same John and so thereof being Indebted the same Alexander in Consideration thereof afterwards that is to say the day afd in the year afd at the County afd within the afd Jurisdiction upon himselfe assumed and to the same John then and there faithfully promised that he when afterwards he should be thereunto requested the afd sum of twenty two hundred and forty six pounds of tobacco to the same John the would well and faithfully pay and Content Nevertheless the afd Alexander altho' he then and there that is to say the afd tenth day of June in the year afd at Somerset County afd within the Jurisdiction afd fourteen hundred & twenty five pounds of tobacco part of the afd ^twenty^ two hundred and forty six pounds of tobacco to the said John hath paid and Contented yett ye said Alexander as to seven hundred and fifty one pounds of tobacco the Residue of the afd twenty two hundred and forty six pounds of tobacco his promise and assumption afd in form afd made Little regarding but plotting and fraudulently Intending the same John of the afd seven hundred and fifty one pounds of tobacco according to his promise and assumption afd he hath not paid or the same John for it in anywise Contented altho' the tenth day of June ann Dom one thousand seven hundred and twenty three at the County afd within the Jurisdiction afd by the same John Banister he was Requested but the same Alexander the afd sum of seven hundred and fifty one pounds of tobacco the residue as afd hitherto to the same John to pay or fer him it in any wise to Content hath altogether Refused and still doth Refuse whereby the same John says he is the worse and hath damage to the value of fifteen hundred pounds of tobacco and thereupon he brings his suite &c L: Gale P Quer pledg & Jno Doe R Roe (A Copy) |
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