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(250) November Court Anno Domini 1747 And the said Virlinda Sanders the said sum of Nine Hundred Pounds of Tob.o Altho solemnly Called Comes not but makes default and the afs.d William Duncan into Court herein his proper person Comes & Confesses that at the time of laying the attachment afs.d he had and stil has of the Effects of the said Levet to the Value of Six Hundred pounds of Tobacco and no more Whereupon the said Joseph by Jeremiah Chase his attorney afs.d prays Condemnation of the sums so as afs.d in the hands of the Garnashees afs.d with Execution thereof to him to be adjudged Therefore it is Considered by the Court here that the said Joseph have Condemnation of the sums of Tobacco afs.d in the hands of the Garnashees afs.d by the Court here adjudged according to the form force & Effect of the Act of Assembly in such Cases late made & provided and that the said Joseph have thereof Execution &Ca Memorandum JChase security on Condemnation
It was Commanded the sheriff that he should take Mary Neale late of Charles County Widow if &C.a and her safe Keep so that he should have her body before the Justices of the Lord Proprietary of his Next County Court to be holden at Charles Town on the Second Tuesday in November Next to answer unto Joshua Willson of a plea of Trespass upon the Case and so forth and that he should have then & there that Writt &Ca At which day to wit the second Tuesday in Novr afs.d Comes the said Joshua by Jeremiah Chase his attorney and offers himself against the said Mary and the sheriff aforesaid Namely Thomas Hungerford Gent Returns to the Court here that he has taken the body of the said Mary Neale And the afs.d Mary in her proper person Comes & defends the force and Injury when &C.a and says that she Cannot deny the action afs.d of him the said Joshua nor but that she did assume upon herself in manner & form as the said Joshua above against her hath Complained nor also but that the s.d Joshua hath sustained Damages by means of not Performing the Promises and Assumptions afs.d to one Thousand five Hundred and Twenty five pounds of Tobacco as the said Joshua above supposes Whereupon the said Joshua by his attorney afs.d prays Judgment and those Damages so acknowledged together with his Costs & Charges by her about his suit in this part laid out and Expended to him to be adjudged Therefore it is Considered by the Court here that the said Joshua do Recover against the said Mary his Damages afs.d to one Thousand five Hundred and Twenty five pounds of Tobacco above acknowledged as also One Hundred and Eighty Pounds of Tobacco for his Costs & Charges about ^by^ her about his suit in this part laid out & Expended on his assent by the Court here Def.t in mea adjudged and the said Mary in Mercy &Ca |
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