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March
Court
1726 243 afd in forme afd made Little regarding & plotting & fraudulently Intending him ye said Jos: in yt part Craftilly & subtilly to defraud & Deceive he ye afd sum of eight hundred & Sixty three pounds of tobacco or any part thereof unto the Same Joseph (altho' afterwards to witt the Same day and year afd at the County afd within the afd Jurisdiction he was thereto Requested) he hath not paid or the same Joseph for it in any wise Contented but the said James the same hitherto to do hath altogether Refused and still doth Refuse to the damage of the Same Joseph seventeen hundred and twenty six pounds of tobacco and thereof he brings this Suite &a Levin Gale P Quer Pledges &.a Jno Doe Richd Roe
A Copy of the foregoeing declaration and account were made and sent to be served on the aforesaid James Russell 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 afd writt Cometh the afd Joseph MccClester by his attorney afd and the sherr of Somersett County to whom the foregoeing writt was directed Likewise Cometh and maketh Return thereof to the Court here Endorsed in these words followeth viz.t Cepi Corpus decl delivered in time p Francis Allen sherr And the afd James Russell by George Dashiell his attorney Comes and defends the force and Injury when &.c and the same attorney sayth that he is not Informed by the same James his Clyant of any answer for the same James to the afd Joseph MccClester in the plea afd to be given and nothing Els thereof says by which the same Joseph Remaineth against the afd James thereof undefended &c Wherefore the afd Joseph his damages by occasion of the Non performance of the promise and assumption afd against the afd James Ought to Recover &c And whereupon at the prayer of the afd Joseph Macclester and by the Consent of the afd James Russell the Justices here according to act of assembly in Such Case made and provided did assess |
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