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(270) November Court Anno Domini 1747 Whereupon the said Samuel by Jeremiah Chase his attorney afs.d prays Judgment and those Damages so acknowledged together with his Costs & Charges by him 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 Samuel do Recover against the said Arthur his Damages afs.d to Eight Hundred and Sixty Nine pounds of Tobacco above acknowledged as also the sum of Two hundred and seventy five pounds of Tobacco for his Costs & Charges by him about his suit in that part laid out & Expended on his assent by the Court here Def.t in mea adjudged and the said Arthur in Mercy &Ca
It was Commanded the sheriff that he should take Charles Courts late of Charles County Planter otherwise Called Charles Courts of Charles County Planter if &C.a and him safe keep so that he should have his body before the Justices of the Lord Propry of his Next County Court to be holden at Charles Town on the Second Tuesday in November Next to answer unto Mess.rs Stephenson and Steel of a plea that he Render unto them the sum of Three Thousand one Hundred and seventy Two pounds Tobacco w.ch to them he owes and unjustly detains and so forth and that he should have then & there with Writt &Ca At which day to wit the Second Tuesday in November afs.d Comes the afs.d Stephenson & Steel by Jeremiah Chase their attorney and offers themselves against the said Charles and the sheriff aforesaid Returns to the Court here that he has taken the body of the said Charles Courts &Ca And the aforesaid Charles Courts In his proper person Comes and defends the force and Injury when &C.a and saith that he Cannot Deny the action afs.d of them the said Stephenson & Steel nor but that he owes to them the said Stephenson & Steel the sum of Three Thousand one Hundred and seventy Two pounds of Tobacco and no more Therefore it is COnsidered ^by the Court here^ that the said Stephenson & Steel do Recover against the said Charles their Debt afs.d & his Damages by occasion of Detaining that Debt to one Hundred and Ninety Two Pounds of Tobacco to the same Stephenson & Steel on their assent by the Court here Def.t in mea adjudged and the said Charles Court in Mercy &Ca
Charles County ss.t Thomas Green late of Charles County Planter otherwise Called Thomas Green of Charles County was summoned to answer (unto) |
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