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March Court
1725
117 the said Joseph then & there faithfully promised that he when afterwards he should be thereto requested he ye said sum of six hundred & Ninety Six pounds of Tob.o to ye same Joseph would well & faithfully Content & pay Never ye less ye said Tobias his promiss & assumption afd in form afd made Little regarding & plotting & fraudulently Intending the same Joseph in yt part craftilly & subtilly to deceive & defraud he ye said sum of six hundred & Ninety p.ds of Tob.o or any part thereof to ye same Joseph (although ye afd Tobias afterwards to witt ye same day & year afd Last mentioned & often afterwards at Somrsett County afd within withe Jurisdiction afd by ye same Joseph now requested hath not paid or him for it in any wise Contented but yt he ye said Tobias ye same hitherto to doe hath altogether refused & still doth refuse whereby the same Joseph says he is worse & hath damage to ye value of three thousand pounds of tob.o & therof he brings this suite ye L Gale P Quer pledges &c Jno Doe Richd Roe
attorney adjudged to give Speciall Bail to the action afd Thereupon a Certain William Merchement of Somersett County Planter present here in Court undertakes for the Said Tobias Pepper that if in Case the Said Will Joseph MccClester Shall recover Judgm.t in the plea afd against the afd Tobias Pepper or that the Said Tobias Pepper Shall be therein Convict that then he ye said Tobias Pepper shall pay the Condemnation of the Court thereupon unto the said Joseph Mcclester or render his Body to the Custody of the Sherr of Somersett County in satisfaction thereof or that he the Said William Marchm.t will do it for him &c And thereupon the Said Tobias Pepper in his own proper person Cometh and defendeth the force and Injury when &c and says that he Cannot gainsay the Plft his action afd so as afd against him brought nor Can he Say but that the Said Plft Ought to recover his damages by Occasion of the premisses afd to Six hundred and Ninty Six pounds of tobo and Costs of Suite against him the Said Plft doth not gainsay &c Therefore it is Considered by the Justices here the fifteenth day of March anno Dom One thousand seven hundred and twenty five that the afd Joseph MccClester Recover ag.t the afd Tobias Pepper as well the Sum of Six hundred and Ninty Six pounds of tobo his damages 266 afd in form afd Confessed as also the Sum of Two hundred and Sixty Six pounds of tob.o by the Court here adjudged unto him for his Costs and Charges by him about his Suite in this behalfe Laid Out and Expended and the afd Deft in Mercy &c
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