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August Court
1729
208 of the promise and assumption afd beyound his Costs and Charges by him about his Suit in that part Expended to One thousand two hundred and twenty pounds of tobacco and for those Costs and Charges to one pound of tobacco Therefore it is Considered that the afd Joseph MccClester Recover against the afd Abraham Cordery his Damages afd to One thousand two hundred and thirteen pounds of tobacco as by ye 536 Inquisition afd above appears as also pounds of tobo for his Costs and Charges by him about his Suit in that part apposed to the Same Joseph by the Court hereof at his request of Increase adjudged which Certain Damages in the whole do amount to pounds of tob.o and ye afd deft in mercy &c
a plea of trespass upon the Case &.c And whereupon the said John by Francis Allen his attorney Complains that whereas the said Drake in his Life time to witt the first day of November ann.o Dom One thousand seven hundred and ninteen at Somersett County afd within the Jurisdiction of this Court was Indebted unto the said John in three pounds nine shillings and nine pence Currant money of Maryland as p by account hereunto annexed and herein Court produced may appear and being so thereof Indebted the said Drake in his life time to witt the first day of November in the Year afd at the County afd in Consideration thereof upon himselfe did assume and to the said John then and there did faithfully promise that he the said Drake the said three pounds Nine shillings and nine pence to the said John when he should be afterwards thereunto requested he would well and faithfully pay and Content and altho' the said Drake in his Life time sixteen shillings pcell of the afd three pounds Nine shillings and Nine pence to the said John he paid and Satisfied Yett as to two pounds thirteen shillings and Nine pence residue thereof the afd Drake in his Life time and the afd Hill in his said Capacity in his life time and the afd George in his Capacity afd made the promise and assumption afd of the afd Drake in his Life time so as afd made nothing regarding but plotting and fraudulently Intending and Every of them plotting and fraudulently Intending the said John in that Part Craftilly and Subtilly to deceive and defraud the said two pounds thirteen shillings and Nine pence to the said John altho' the same to do the said Drake in his Life time to witt the afd first day of November in the Year afd and Often afterwards and the afd Hill in his Life time after ye decease of the said Drake to witt the second day of aprill seventeen hundred and twenty two and Often afterwards and ye afd George since ye Decease of the said Hill and Drake to witt on the first day of |
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