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August Court
1740
16 tobacco Conditioned to pay half that sum to the said Shary in his life Suposed to be made and Sealed by the said Charles Revell we the Subscribers having take upon us the Consideration of the premisses and haveing heard and duly weighed and Considered the Evidences and allegation of the said partys it appearing to us that the said writing is not the Act and deed of the said Charles and that the same was never Signed Sealed or delivered by him we therefore award that the said Littleton deliver up the said writing to the said Charles Revell to be Cancelled and that the said Littleton take nothing by his said Suit or Action and that Each party pay his Own Costs Given under our hands and seals this nineteenth day of August Anno Dom MDCCXL Samuel Wilson (seal) Jno Waters (seal) Nicholas Fountain (seal) Which being read and heard It is Considered by the Court here that the aforesaid Littleton Townsend Administrator of the aforesaid Job Sherry dec.d take nothing by his writt aforesaid but be in mercy for his false Clamour and that the afd Charles Revell goe thereof without day &c
that he render unto him eighty pounds ten Shillings Currt money of maryland which from him he unjustly detains &.a And Whereupon the said Littleton by George Douglas his attorney says that whereas the said Benjamin on the twenty first day of Aprill Anno Dom MDCCXXXiij at the County afd by his Certain writing Obligatory which the said Littleton Sealed with the seal of the said Benjamin herein Court brings whose date is the day and year afd did acknowledge himself to be held and firmly bound to the said Job Sherry in his Lifetime ^in^ the said eighty pounds ten Shillings to be paid to the said Job Sherry his heirs Ex.rs Adm.rs assigns or Certain Attorney when he the said Benjamin should be afterwards thereto required Nevertheless the said Benjamin the said eighty pounds five Shillings to the said Job in his lifetime or to the said Littleton since the death of the said Job hath not rendred but the same to the said Job in his Life or to the said Littleton since the ^said Jobs^ death to render altogether hath denyed and the same to the said LIttleton to render still doth deny and unjustly detain altho' thereto by the said Job in his Lifetime afterwards to wit on the day and year af.d at the County af.d and often since that time required and altho' afterwards and since the death of the said Job to witt on the tenth day of August Anno Dom MDCCXXXIX and often sine that time by the said Littleton thereto required whereupon |
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