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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1737-1738
Volume 859, Page 256b   View pdf image
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        March Court                    1737             256

County Gentleman was attached to answer unto Jacob Lookerman of a plea of trespass
upon the Case &a

And whereupon the same Jacob by Charles Goldsborough his attorney Complains
wherefore whereas the af.d Jacob the tenth day of August Anno Dom one thousand
seven hundred and thirty seven at Somerset County within the Jurisdiction of this Court
accounted with the af.d Joseph of divers sums of tobacco the same Jacob by the af.d
Joseph before that ^same^ time owing and unpaid and upon their accounting the same
Joseph was found in arrear to the same Jacob in eleven hundred and eighty one pounds
of tobacco and so in arrear being found the af.d Joseph in Consideration thereof afterwards
to witt the same day and year at the County af.d assumed upon himself and to
the same Jacob then and there faithfully promised that he the same Joseph the af.d
eleven hundred and eighty one pounds of tobacco to the same Jacob when thereof
afterwards he should be required well and faithfully he would pay and Content

Nevertheless the af.d Joseph his promise and assumption af.d not minding but
deviseing and fraudulently Intending the same Jacob in that part Craftily and
Subtilly to deceive and defraud the af.d eleven hundred and eighty one pounds of tobacco
or any part thereof to the same Jacob hath not paid altho' to this the same Joseph
afterwards the fifteenth day of the same month and year af.d at the County af.d was
required but the same to him hitherto to pay altogether refused and as yett refuseth
to the damage of the same Jacob of two thousand three hundred and sixty two pounds
of tobacco and thereof he brings suit &.a            Pledges &.a J: Doe and R Roe

And the af.d Joseph Macclester by his attorney af.d Comes and defends the force and Injury
when &.a and saith that he Cannot deny the action af.d of the af.d Jacob Lookerman
nor Can he say but that he did assume upon himself in manner and form as the af.d
Jacob above against him hath complained and as to the damage of the same Jacob
by him by occasion of the premisses in that part sustained the same Joseph saith
and acknowledgeth that the af.d Jacob 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 eighty one 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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