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March Court
1726 235 himselfe did assume and to the said Jos: then and there did faithfully promise that he the said James the said one thousand and fifty five pounds of tob.o to the said Jos when he should be thereunto Requested he would well and faithfully pay and Content and altho the said James Ninety one pounds of tob.o percell of the said Debt to the said Jos: he hath paid and satisfied yet as to the Residue thereof being Nine hundred sixty and four pounds of tob.o ye said James his promise and assumption afd in forme afd made nothing Regarding but plotting & fraudulently Intending the said Jos: in that part Craftilly and Subtilly to Deceive & defraud the said Nine hundred and forty four pounds of tob.o to the said Jos: hath not paid altho the same to Doe the said James was often thereunto Requested but the same to him hitherto to pay hath Refused and still doth Refuse and Deny to the damage of the said Jos: of Nineteen hundred and twenty Eight pounds of tob.o & Thereupon he Brings Suite &c L Gale P Quer pledges &c J Doe R Roe
A Copy of the foregoing declaration and acc.o were made and sent to be served on the afd James Perry with the writt in the plea afd &c Att which said third tuesday of march to witt the twenty first day of the same month anno Dom one thousand seven hundred and twenty Six being the day of the Return of the said writt Cometh the afd Jos: MccClester by his attorney afd and the sherr of Somersett County to whome the foregoeing writ was Directed Likewis Cometh and maketh Return thereof to ye Court here endorsed in these words following viz.t Cepi Corpus decl.n del.d in time P me Fran Allen Sherr And the said James Perry being present here in Court is at the prayer of the plfts attorney afd adjudged to give speciall Bail to the action afd thereupon a Certain Tho.s Collins of the County of Somersett Gent planter present here in Court undertakes for the said James Perry that if in Case the afd Jos: MccClester shall Recover Judgm.t in the plea afd ag.t the afd James Perry or that the said James Perry Shall be therein Convict that then he the said James Perry Shall pay the Condemnation of the Court thereupon or render his Body to the Costody of the Sherr of Somrsett County in Satisfaction thereof or that he the said Thomas Collins will do it for him &c |
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