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August Court
1729
209 for the rent of five years ending the twenty first day of December one thousand Seven Hundred and twenty five to the said Robert in his life time was in arrear and remaining unpaid by which action accrewed to the said Robert in his Life time to require and have of the afd John the aforesaid fifteen hundred pounds of tobacco and fifty bushells of Indian Corn Yett the afd John tho' often by the said Robert in his lifetime and by the said Archibald since the death of the said Robert thereunto required the said fifteen hundred pounds of tobacco and fifty bushells of Indian Corn to the Said Robert in his life time or to the said Archibald since the decease of the said robert hath not rendered but the Same to render hath denyed and the said John the same to the said Archibald to render still doth deny and unjustly detain to the retarding him in the Execution of the Last and Will and testament afd whereupon the said Archibald Saith he is worse and hath damage to the value of twenty pounds Currant money of Mary and thereupon he brings suit &.c and brings into Court here the Letters testamentary of the afd Robert by which it plainly appears the afd Archibald to be Executor and thereupon to have administracon &c F Allen P Quer Pledgs &c Jno Doe R Roe And the afd John Pepper by George Dashiell his attorney Comes and defends the force & Injury when &.c and prays Leave to Imparle hereunto untill the next Court and he hath it and the Same day is given to the afd Plft here also &c Att which said next Court to witt the Seventeenth day of June anno Dom one thousand seven hundred and twenty Nine Came againe as well the afd Archibald Smith Executor as afd as the afd John Pepper by their attorneys afd and whereupon the said John Pepper by his said attorney prayed further leave thereof to Imparle hereunto untill the next Court and he hath it and the same day is given to the afd Archibald here also &c Att which said next Court to witt the Ninteenth day of August anno Dom One thousand Seven hundred and twenty Nine Came again as well the afd Archibald Smith Executor as afd by his attorney as afd as the afd John Pepper by his attorney afd and Whereupon the Said John Pepper by his said attorney as before defends the force and Injury when &.c and says that he Cannot gainsay the action afd of the afd Archibald nor but that he doth detain from the said Archibald the afd Fifteen hundred pounds of tobacco and fifty bushells of Indian Corn in manner and form as the aforesaid Archibald above against him hath declared &c Therefore it is Considered that the afd Archibald Smith Executor of the Same robert Perrie Recover against the afd John Pepper his debt afd to fifteen hundred pounds of tob.o and fifty bushells of Indian Corn and his damages by Occasion of the detaining of the Same Debt to four hundred and six 406 pounds of tobacco to the same Archibald of his assent by the the Court here adjudged and ye afd deft in Mercy &c
County within the Jurisdiction of this Court was Indebted unto the Same Ebenezer and Benjamin in |
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