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June Court
1725
42 County planter present here in Court in his own proper person undertakes for the said Michael Holland that in Case the said Levin Denwood shall Recover Judgm.t in the plea afd against the said Michael Holland or that the said Michael Holland shall be therein Convict that then he the said Michael Holland shall pay the Condemnation of the Court thereupon unto the said Levin Denwood or Render his body to the Custody of the Sherr of Somersett County in Satisfaction thereof or that he ye said Michael Holland Jun.r will doe it for him &c Whereupon the Said Michael Holland by George Dashiell his attorney Comes and defends the force and Injury when &c and Says that he Cannot gainsay the plft his action afd against him brought nor Can he Say but that the writing obligatory afd is his act and deed and that the debt therein Mentioned is yett due and unsatisfyed wherefore the same plft prays Judgm.t for his debt afd and his Costs and damages sustained by occasion of the detaining of the same debt Therefore it is Considered ^by the Court here^ be the fifteenth day of June ann Dom One thousand seven hundred and twenty five that the afd Levin Denwood Recover against the afd Michael Holland as well the sum of one hundred and sixty pounds Curr.t money his debt afd as also the sum of four hundred (409) and Nine pounds of tobo for his Costs and damages by occasion of the detaining the same debt to the same Levin Denwood of his assent by the Court here adjudged & the afd Deft in Mercy &c
him he unjustly detaineth &c And whereupon the same John by Levin Gale his attorney saith that Whereas the afd Patrick the Eighteenth day of June seventeen hundred & twenty four at Somrsett County afd within the Jurisdiction of this Court by his Certain Writting Obligatory granted himselfe to be held and firmly Bound unto the afd John in the Sum of thirteen hundred and fifty pds of tobacco to be paid unto the same John when he Should be afterwards thereunto Required yett the afd Patrick altho' often required the afd thirteen hundred and fifty pounds of tobo to the same John as yett to render hath denyed & Still doth deny whereby the Said John Saith he is worse & hath damage to the Value of five hundred pounds of tobacco and thereof he brings suite &c And brings hereinto Court the Writing afd which the debt afd in form afd doth testifie whose date is the same day & year abovesaid &c L Gale P Quer Pledges &c Jno Doe R Roe Whereupon the said Patrick Daley in his own proper person appears and thereupon the said Patrick Daley at the prayer of the plfts attorney afd is adjudged to give speciall bail to the action afd Thereupon a Certain Richard Plunkett of Somersett County Planter in his (own) |
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