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refuse to the damage of the sd Samuel of 3000 lbs of tobacco and

thereupon he brings this Sute                         Jn^o Doe

       Alexander p^r Que^r. Pledgs &ca.               Rich Roe }

And the Dft by Peter Dent his Attorney defends y^e force and

injury & Saith he is not indebted as the plt as in his Declⁿ

he hath averred & this he prayes may be enquired of by y^e Court

                                               Dent

Thle plt not proving his Declⁿ. was willing to Suffer A

Non Sute which this Court likewise Orders w^th Cost &ca.

George Layfield Esq^r plt          Somerset Ss

Benj^m Deards Dfend^t }        Benjamine Deards of Somerset County

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~                   Sawyer was attached to answer unto

George Layfield Esq^r & Eliz.his Wife &ca. of an accon of the Case —

And whereupon the sd George & Eliz. by Sam Worthington their Attorney

Complains that whereas the sd Benjamine Deards in the year of our

Lord 1692 at Pocomoke within the Jurisdiction of this Court with

force & Armes &ca. did forceably enter upon Tract of Land Called litle

Convenience belonging unto the afd George Layfield & Eliz. his Wife as

p^r Conveyance from Thomas Miller & Sarah his Wife doth and may

appear & did fell Cutt down Waste & destroy & Carry away of the afd

Land Called litle Convenience Cypresse Timber to the value of Eight

Thousand pounds of Tobacco without the Consent knowledge & privity of

them or either of them & the sd George & Elizabeth for [which they]

in fact Saith they are damnified to the value of Sixteen thousand pounds

of tobacco & thereof they bring this Sute &ca.           Jn^o Doe

                  Worthington p^r Que^r Pledgs &ca.                Rich Roe}

The Decl being read y^e foresd Alinacon being produced it was

the judgm^t of the Justices that the plts acco^t did not lye within y^e

Jurisdiction of this Court & therefore doe Ord^r a Non Sute w^th Cost &ca.

George Layfield &ca. plts      Somerset Ss //

Edward Jones Dft }            Edward Jones of Somerset County

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~                   Attorney at Law was attached to answer

unto George Layfield Esq^r & Eliz. his Exto^rs of the last will & Testam^t

of Co^ll Wm Stevens Deceased of a plea of debt &ca. – And whereupon y^e

Said George & Elizabeth by Samuel Worthington his Attorney Complaineth &

Saith that whereas the sd Edward on y^e 28^th day of August in y^e year of our

Lord 1686 at Pocomoke with the Jurisdiction of this Court by a Certain

Bill Obligatory under the hand & Seal of him the said Edward became indebted

unto him the afd William Stevens in the just Sum of eleaven hundred and

Eighty pounds of good Sound Mertable leafe tobacco in Caske Convenient in

Somerset County the date whereof is the day & year afd , And the sd Edward being

indebted in manner & form afd the sd Sum of tobacco to the William faithfully

paid in his lifetime nor to the sd Eliz.in the time of her being Extrix nor

the Sd George Since the intermarrying with the sd Eliz though often there

unto required ,for which the sd George & Eizabeth Saith they are