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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1730-1733
Volume 842, Page 239b   View pdf image
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Aug.t Court               1732                        239

Caldwell and the Same Benj.a Holland Concerning the running of a
Certain Bay ^Coloured^ horse of the Said Benj and the Running of a White or Gray
Coloured horse of a Certain James Strawbridge on which Communication
so had and Moved it was then and there agreed between the aforesd Joshua
and the Same Benj in Manner and forme following Viz.t that he the afd
Joshua Caldwell would Run or Cause to be run the afd horse of the Said
James Strawbridge with the Said horse of the Same Benja the quarter
of a Mile at the Race ground Near the Court house of the County aforesd on the
Seventeenth day of Novemb.r Ann Dom Seventeen hundred and thirty one and
that the Rider of the horses aforesd Should Ride the W^e^ight of one hundred and
forty pounds Should start themselves and if both whipt it Should be a race
and if the Said horse of the Said Strawbridge Should then and there pass by the
Pole before the Said horse of the Same Benj then the Said Benj Assumed to
pay to the Said Joshua the quantity of two thousand pounds of tobacco and
if the Said Benj Said horse Should then and there pass by the pole before
the Said horse of the Said Strawbridge then and the aforesaid Joshua assum'd
to pay the Said Benj the Quantity of two thousand five hundred pounds of
tobacco and thereupon the aforesd Joshua afterwards Vizt on the day and
year aforesd at the place and within the Jur aforesd on Consideration of the
premises and also on Consideration that the Same Benj Holland at the
Especiall Request and Instance of the Said Joshua upon himself did assume
and to the Same Joshua upon himself did Assume and to the Same Joshua
then and there faithfully promise that he the aforesd Benj would runn or
Cause to be run his horse aforesd the quarter of a Mile at the Race ground
near the Court house of the County aforesd on the Seventeenth day of Nov.r
Ann Dom Seventeen hundred and thirty one aforesd According to the tenor
of the agreement aforesd and if ^the horse of^ the Said Strawbridge Should then and there
pass by the Pole before the horse of the Said Benj ^that he the Same Benja^ would well and faithfully
Content and pay to the Said Joshua the Quantity of two thousand pounds
of tobacco when he Should be Afterwards thereto required by the Said
Joshua upon himselfe did Assume and to the Same Benj then and
there faithfully promise that he the Said Joshua Would Run or Cause
to be run the horse afd of the Said Strawbridge with the horse of the
Said Benj the quarter of a mile at the Race ground Near the Court
house of the County afd on the Seventeenth day of Novemb.r Ann Dom
Seventeen hundred ^&^ thirty one afd according to the tenor of ^the^ agreement aforesd
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