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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1737-1738
Volume 859, Page 230b   View pdf image
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    March Court                   1737                 230

Somerset County af.d within the Jurisdiction of this Court did make a Certain note
in writing called a promissory note with his proper hand subscribed bearing date
the day and year last mentioned and that note to the said William then and there
did deliver by which note the said Frances did promise to pay to the said William
the sum of three pounds five shillings and eight pence Currt money of maryland
to be paid in timber that is as much timber as will make forty and four thousand
foot of plank or as much as will make up the said sum of money at eighteen
pence p.r thousand when she should be afterwards thereto required and in case she
the said Frances should fail therein that she the said Frances would pay the af.d
sum of money in sterling money and by means thereof and by force of the statute
in that case lately made and provided the said Frances became chargeable to pay
to the said William the said money in timber at the rate af.d or the said sterling money
according to the tenor of the said note ^and^ so being thereof chargeable afterwards to
witt the day and year af.d at the County af.d upon her self did assume and to the
said William then and there faithfully promise the af.d sum of money in the timber
at the rate af.d when thereto afterwards required or if she failed therein
in sterling money according to the tenor of that note to the said William to pay
and Content  Nevertheless the said Frances her promise and assumption af.d in
form af.d made not regarding but minding and fraudulently intending the af.d
William in that part to deceive and defraud the af.d sum of money in timber
at the rate af.d altho thereto on the day and year last mentioned at the County af.d
^and often afterwards^ by the said William required or the said sum in sterling ^money^ altho' thereto afterwards
to witt on the first day of January in the year last af.d and often since that time
at the said County by the said William required to the said William hath not
paid or him for the same in any sort Contented but the same according to the
tenor of the said note to him to pay hath altogether refused and still doth refuse
to the damage of the said William ten pounds Currt money of maryland and thereof
he brings suit &a                                                   Pledges &a J Doe and R Roe

And the af.d Frances Bowger by Frances Allen her attorney comes and defends
the force and Injury when &a and prayeth leave thereof to Imparle here untill
next Court to be held at deviding Creek in the County af.d the third tuesday of
                                                                                                      November


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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1737-1738
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