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November Court
1740
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Ordered that William Stoughton Esq.r be allowed one thousand pounds of tobacco for the keeping and maintaining a Certain Emanuel Jarvis (a poor Object Boy) p year &.a
af.d Michael Holland in the plea af.d in form following Somerset County ss.t Michael Holland late of Somerset County planter was attached to answer ^unto^ William Whittington of a plea of trespass upon the Case And Whereupon the said William by Francis Allen his Attorney Complains that whereas the said Michael the Eleventh day of May Anno Dom Seventeen hundred and forty at Somerset County af.d within the Jur of this Court was Indebted unto the said William in Four hundred twenty and nine pounds of tobacco for Sundrys properly chargeable in Acco.t as by Ac.t thereof here in Court ready to be produced may appear and being so thereof Indebted the said Michael in Consideration thereof the day and year af.d at the County af.d upon himself did Assume and to the said William then and there did faithfully promise that he the said Michael the af.d Four hundred twenty and nine pounds of tobacco to the said William when he should be thereto requested well and faithfully he would pay and Content Nevertheless the said Michael his promise and Assumption af.d in forme af.d made nothing regarding but plotting and fraudulently intending the said William in that part Craftily and Subtilly to deceive and defraud the said Four hundred twenty and nine pounds of tobacco to the said William Altho' the same to do the said Michael on the af.d Eleventh day of may in the year af.d and often afterwards at Somerset County af.d he was thereunto requested hath not paid or Contented but the same to him hitherto to pay or Content hath refused and still doth refuse and deny to the damage of the said William of Eight hundred pounds of tobacco and thereupon he brings Suit &c
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