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June Court
1741
140 in an account as by an account thereof hereinto Court brought may appear and so thereof Indebted being the af.d Joshua afterwards (to witt) the same day and year af.d at Somerset County af.d in Consideration thereof upon himself did assume and to the same William then and there faithfully promise that he the said Joshua the af.d sum of twenty and one pounds unto the same William when thereto afterwards Requested would well and faithfully pay and Content and whereas also the af.d Joshua afterwards to witt the first day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred thirty ^and^ nine at Somerset County af.d was Indebted unto the same William in ^one^ other sum of twenty and one pounds Like Current money of maryland for other money by the af.d Joshua of the same William before that time borrowed had and Received and so thereof Indebted being the af.d Joshua Afterwards (to witt) the first day of July in the year last above mentioned at Somerset County af.d in Consideration thereof upon himself did assume and to the same William then and there faithfully promise that he the said Joshua the same twenty and one pounds last mentioned when thereof afterwards he should be Requested unto the same William would well and faithfully pay and Content and whereas also the af.d Joshua afterwards to witt the first day of July in the year above mentioned at Somerset County af.d was Indebted to the af.d William in other twenty and one pounds like Currt money of maryland for other money by the af.d Joshua to the use of the same William before that time had and Received and so thereof Indebted being the af.d Joshua afterwards (to witt) the af.d first day of July in the year af.d at Somerset County af.d upon himself in Consideration thereof did assume and to the same William then and there faithfully promise that he the said Joshua the af.d twenty and one pounds Last mentioned unto the same William when thereof afterwards Requested would well and faithfully pay and Content Nevertheless the af.d Joshua his several Promisses and assumptions af.d in form af.d made not Regarding but minding and fraudulently ^Intending^ the same William in this part Craftilly to deceive and defraud the severall sums of money af.d or any peny thereof to the same William (altho' the same to do the af.d Joshua afterwards (to witt) the tenth day of July in the year af.d and often since that time at Somerset County af.d ^by the same^ William was Requested hat not paid or in any sort Contented but the same to him hetherto to pay or in any sort Contented hath altogether refused and still doth Refuse to the damage of him the said William Fifty pounds Currt money of the province af.d and thereof he brings suit &.a Pledges &.a J Doe & R Roe
March 20.th 1739 Then Came the above named William Scott before me the Subscriber and proved the above account in due form of Law Jam.s Martin And the af.d Joshua Sturgiss by George Douglas his attorney Cometh and defendeth the force and Injury when &.a and Prayeth Leave thereof to Imparle here untill Court to be held at dividing Creek in and for the County af.d the third |
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