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March Court
1724
11 the County afd within the Jurisdiction of this Court was Indebted unto the afd John Pitts in the Sum of Nine hundred and Seventy pounds of tobacco for divers goods wares & Merchandizes to him sold and delivered and so thereof being Indebted the Same Thomas in Consideration thereof afterwards to witt the day and Year afd at the County afd within the Jurisdiction afd upon himselfe assumed and to the Same John Pitts then and there faithfully promised that he the Said Thomas the afd Nine hundred & Seventy pounds of tobacco to the afd John Pitts when afterwards he should be thereunto Requested he would well and faithfully Content & pay Nevertheless the said Thomas Layfeild his promise and assumption afd in form afd made Little Regarding and plotting and fraudulently Intending the afd John Pitts in that part Craftilly and Subtilly to defraud & deceive the afd Nine hundred & Seventy pounds of tobacco or any part thereof to the afd John Pitts altho' afterwards to witt the tenth day of June Seventeen hundred & twenty three at the County afd within the Jurisdiction afd was thereunto Requested hath not paid him for it ^or^ in anywise Contented to the damage of the same John Eighteen hundred pounds of tobacco tobacco and thereof he brings this Suite &c L Gale P Quer Pledges &c Jn Doe R Roe And the afd Thomas Layfeild in his Own proper person Cometh and defendeth fo the force and Injury when &c and prayeth Leave to Imparle hereunto untill the next Court and he hath it and the same day is given to the afd John Pitts also Att which said Next Court to witt the sixteenth day of March Anno Dom One thousand seven hundred & twenty four Came againe as well the afd John Pitts by his attorney afd as the afd Thomas Layfeild in his Own proper person and the Said Thomas Layfeild saith that he Cannot gainsay the action afd of the afd John Pitts so as afd against him brought nor Can he Say but that the said John Pitts Ought to Recover his damages by Occasion of the premisses afd to Nine hundred & Seventy pounds of tobacco & Costs of Suite against him which the said plft doth not gainsay &c Therefore it is Considered by the Court here the same day and year last mentioned that the afd John Pitts Recover against the afd Thomas Layfeild as well the sum of Nine hundred and Seventy pounds of tobo his damages afd in form afd Confesed (302) as also the Sum of three hundred and two pounds of tobacco by the Court here adjudged unto him for his Costs and Charges by him about his Suite in this behalfe Laid out & Expended & the afd Thos Layfeild in Mercy &c
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