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August Court
1741
152 af.d in form af.d made little regarding but minding and fraudulently intending him the same John in that part Craftily & Suttely to deceive and defraud the said Sum of three shillings and three pence and seven hundred seventy and four pounds of tobacco or any part of the said money or tobacco unto the same John he hath not paid or satisfied altho' the same to doe the af.d Francis afterwards to witt the same day and year above mentioned at Somerset County af.d and often since that time by the same John was requested but the same to him to pay or for the same in any Sort Contented the said Francis hetherto altogether hath refused and still doth refuse to the damage of him the same John twelve pounds Curr.t money of the said province of maryland and thereof he brings Suit &c Pledg.s &c J Doe & R Roe
Att which day here Came the aforesaid John Henry by his attorney aforesaid and the Sheriffe to witt John Handy Gent now here returned that he had taken the af.d Francis Persons whose body here at this day he had ready to Answer the af.d John Henry of the af.d plea as to him it was Commanded Whereupon the said Francis Persons at the prayer of the af.d John Henry is Adjudged to give Speciall bail to the Action af.d Thereupon Came here into Court a Certain Charles Dickerson of naswaddox late of Somerset County planter in his proper person and undertook for the af.d Francis Persons (Likewise the said Francis Persons present here in Court in his proper assumed upon himself) that If it should happen that Judgment in the plea af.d should be rendred for the same John Henry against the af.d Francis Persons or that he the said Francis Persons should be therein Convict that then he the said Francis Persons should pay and satisfie unto the said John Henry the Judgment of the Court thereupon or render his body in Execution of Such Judgment to the prison of the sheriffe of the County af.d in satisfaction thereof or that he the same Charles Dickerson will doe the same for him And the af.d Francis Persons in his proper person Cometh and defendeth the force and Injury when &c and saith that he Cannot deny the Action af.d of the af.d John Henry nor but that he did Assume upon himself in manner and form as the af.d John Henry 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 Francis Persons 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 Nine pounds Sixteen Shillings and Eleven pence Currant Money of Maryland and not more and because the af.d John denys not this but the same Allegation |
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