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June Court
1738
295 of tobacco to the said Russell when he should after that time he thereof Required would faithfully pay and Content Nevertheless the said John Harristoy in his life time his promise and assumption af.d in form af.d made nothing regarding but minding ^and fraudulently^ intending the said Russell in this part Craftily and Subtilly to deceive and defraud the said quantity of tobacco or any part thereof to the said Russell did not pay and the same tobacco or any part thereof the said Israel and Esther or either of them since the death of the said Harristoy to the said Russell have not paid but the same to pay altogether have refused and still doth refuse altho' that to doe the said Harristoy in his life time afterwards to witt the day and year af.d at the County af.d and often afterwards and the said Israel and Esther afterwards to witt on the third day of Mary Anno Dom MDCCXXXvij at the County af.d and often since that time by the said John Russell were severally required Whereupon the said John Russell says he is damnifyed four thousand pounds of tobacco and thereof he brings suit &.a Pledges &a J Doe & R Roe Nov.r D.r John Harristoy D.r to John Russell 1732 To tob.a Rec.d of Thomas Lord for my use ℓℓ tob.a in Leiw of ten pound 2400 due to me from him Errors Excepted p.r Nov.r 20.th 1736 Then appeared before me the above John Russell and gave me statisfactory testimony that the above account is Just and true and also personally made oath that he never Rec.d of the John in his lifetime any part or parcell thereof or any security or Satisfaction thereof or of his Adm.rx since his death Jurat Coram Ed Rownd Whereupon the said John Russell by his attorney afd prays that for as much as he [illegible] in order to an attachment he may have Judgment against the afd Israel Holland and Esther his wife adminrx of the afd John Harristoy for his damages afd by way of attachment according to act of assembly |
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