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March Court
1734
263 at Somerset County aforesaid within the Jurisdiction of this Court was Indebted unto the said Joshua in the quantity of two thousand two hundred and forty nine pounds of tobacco for Leveys and Sundry other matters and things properly lying in account as by an account thereof herewith into Court brought and hereto annexed may appear and the said Thomas being so thereof Indebted on Consideration thereof upon himselfe did assume and to the said Joshua then and there faithfully promise that he the said Thomas the said Two thousand two hundred and forty nine pounds of tobacco when he should be afterwards thereof required to the said Joshua would well and faithfully Content and pay and altho' the Said Thomas hath paid to the Said Joshua the quantity of One thousand four hundred & twenty one pounds of tobacco part of the said two thousand two hundred and forty nine pounds of tobacco Nevertheless as to Eight hundred and twenty Eight pounds of tobacco residue of the said two thousand two hundred and forty nine pounds of tobo the said Thos his promise and assumption afd in manner and form afd made little regarding but plotting and fraudulently Intending the said Joshua in that part Craftilly and Subtilly to deceive and defraud the said Eight hundred and twenty Eight pounds of tobacco to the said Joshua hitherto hath not paid or in any sort Contented but the Same to him to pay hath altogether refused and still doth refuse altho' by the said Joshua afterwards to witt the day and Year afd at the County afd and often afterwards thereto required whereupon the said Joshua says he is damnified twelve pounds Curr.t money of maryland and thereof he brings Suit &a pledgs &a Jno Doe & R Roe
by his attorney afd and the Sheriff of Somerset County to whom to the foregoing writt was directed likewise Cometh and maketh return thereof to the Court here Endorsed in these words Following vizt Cepi Corpus decln delivered in |
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