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August Court
1741
169 and saith that when he was a boy his father Shewed him the deponant a marked Red Oak standing on the Southermost side of a Ridge Called Turkey Ridge and Notherly from Nehemiah Dormans Plantation and that the said Red Oak was the first bounder of a tract of Land Called Turkey Ridge and further sayeth not Henry Dorman July ye 18.th 1741 David Polk John Gray
and forty one to Satisfie Moses Challie Jun.r of Two pounds Seventeen Shillings and ten pence in Gold and nine hundred and twelve pounds of tobacco which to the same Moses Challie in the Same Court before his said Lordships Justices at dividing Creek were adjudged for his Damages which he had by Occasion of a Certain promise and Assumption to the same Moses Challie by the af.d Nathaniel made and nor performed whereof he is Convict &c And the same day is given to the af.d Moses here &a Att which day here Came the af.d Moses Challie in his proper person and the sheriffe to witt John Handy Gent now here returned that he had Taken the af.d Nathaniel Horsey whose body here at this day he had ready to satisfie the af.d Moses of the debt and damages af.d as to him it was Commanded &c
forty one to satisfie Francis Allen twenty pounds Currt money of Maryland and three hundred and Ninety three pounds of tobacco which to the said Francis in the said Court before his Lordships Justices were adjudged for his damages which he had by Occasion of the Speaking and divulging of a Certain Scandelous words of the af.d Francis by the ^af.d^ John Evans in the County af.d whereof he is Convict &c Att which day here Came the af.d Francis Allen in his proper person and the sheriffe to witt John Handy Gent now here returned that he had taken the af.d John Evans whose body here at this day he had ready to satisfie the af.d Francis of the damages af.d as to him it was Commanded &c You John Evans Dan.l Cordry and John Evans J.r doe Confess Judgment to Francis Allen for the sum of three hundred ninety three pounds of tobacco which Sum was recovered by the said Francis Allen against John Evans on the third |
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