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Aprill Court
1723
34 409 whole do amount to Eleven pounds ten shillings sterling as also the sum of Four hundred & Nine (410) pounds of tobacco by the Court here adjudged unto them for their Costs and Charges by them about their Suite in this Behalfe Laid Out and Expended and ye do to be Levied of the goods and Chattles which were of the said William Skirvin at the time of his death in the hands of the said Esther Skirvin Ex.rx as afd remaining to be administered if so much thereof in her hands she hath &.c and if so much therof in her hands she hath not &.c then the Costs afd to be Levied on the proper goods and CHattles of the said Esther Skirvin
whereas the said Abraham the twenty fourth day of march Ann Dom One thousand seven hundred and twenty at Sommersett County afd within the Jurisdiction of this Court was Indebted unto the said John in his LIfe time in two thousand three hundred Eighty five and a halfe pounds of tobacco ^as^ by an acco.t hereunto annexed may in Court appear and being so thereof Indebted the said Abraham afterwards to witt the afd twenty fourth day of march in the year afd at the Place afd within the Jurisdiction afd in Consideration thereof upon himselfe did assume and to the said John in his Life time then and there did faithfully Promise that he the said Abraham the said two thousand three hundred Eighty five and a halfe pounds of tobacco to the said John when he should be thereunto requested he would well and faithfully Pray and Content And altho' the said Abraham fifty five pounds of tobo Pcell of the afd two thousand three hundred Eighty give and a halfe Pounds of tobacco to the said John in his Life time to be Paid and Satisfied yett as to the residue thereof being two thousand three hundred thirty and a halfe pounds of tobacco the said Abraham his Promise and assumption afd in form afd made Little regarding but Plotting and fraudulently Intending the said John in his Life time and the afd Mary whilst sole after the death of the said John and the afd Thomas and Mary after the Espousalls between them Celebrated in that Part Craftily and subtilly to deceive and defraud the said two thousand three hundred thirty and a halfe pounds of tobacco or any Part therof to the said John in his Life time or to the afd Mary whilst she was sole after the death of the said John or to the afd Thomas and Mary after the Espousalls Between the Celebrated hath not Paid or in any wise for the same Contented altho' the said same to do the said Abraham by the afd John in his Life time to witt on the afd twenty fourth day of march in the year afd and often afterwards at the Place afd within the afd Jurisdiction and by the afd Mary whilst she was sole after the death of the said John and by the said Thomas and Mary after the Espousalls between them Celebrated he was thereunto requested hath not Paid but the same to the said John in his Life time or to the said Mary after the death of the said John or to the afd Thomas and Mary after ^the^ Espousalls between them Celebrated hitherto to pay hath altogether refused and the same to the said Thomas and Mary to pay still doth refuse and deny whereupon they say they are worse and have damage to the value of four thousand pounds of tob.o (And) |
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