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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1737-1738
Volume 859, Page 154b   View pdf image
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    November Court                       1737                         154

ensuing the date of that note by means whereof and by force of the statute in that case
lately made and provided the said James became chargeable chargeable to pay to the said
John the said quantity of tobacco according to the tenor of the said note and so being
thereof chargeable to witt the day and year last af.d at the County af.d on Consideration
thereof upon himself did assume and to the said John then and there faithfully promise to
pay the Contents of the said note according to the tenor of the said note  Nevertheless
the said James his promise and assumption af.d in form af.d made not regarding but minding
and fraudulently intending the said John in that part craftily and Subtilly to
deceive and defraud the said Contents of the said note according to the tenor of the said
note to the said John hath not paid or him for the same in any sort contented but the
same to him to pay hath refused and still doth refuse altho' thereto afterwards to wit
on the second day of march in the year last af.d at the County af.d and often since that
time by the said John required  Whereupon says he is damnifyed twenty pounds
Curr.t money of maryland and thereof he brings suit &.a      Pledges &.a J Doe & R Roe

    Att which day here before the Justices of his Lordships County Court of Somerset at deviding
Creek Came the af.d John Caldwell by his attorney af.d and the sherriffe to witt
John Henry Gent at the same day here returned that he had taken the said James
Townsend whose body hereat this day he had ready to answer the af.d John Caldwell
of the af.d plea as to him it was Commanded and the same sherriffe further returned
that he had served the same James Townsend with a Copy of the declaration af.d
according to the act of assembly in such case made and provided &.a

    And the af.d James Townsend in his proper person Cometh and defendeth the force and
Injury when &.a and saith that he Cannot deny the action af.d of the af.d John
Caldwell above against him hath Complained and as to the damage of the same John
by him by occasion of the premisses in that part sustained the same James Townsend
^saith^ and acknowledgeth that the af.d John hath sustained damages by occasion of the
premisses beyond his Costs and Charges by him about his suit in that part
apposed to eleven hundred and forty pounds of tobacco and not more and because the
                                                                                                                            af.d


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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1737-1738
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