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Thomas Galley vs Richard Fowkes, Charles Co., MD
Charles County Court, Liber E, Folio 580
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Thomas Galley plt Richard Fowkes Deft
In an accon of trespas
And whereupon the Said Thomas Galley Complaineth that whereas the Said Richard
Fowke on the Last day of march in the xxxviiith yeare of the dominion of
Caecilius &c by force & armes the Close of him the Said Tho. Galley at
St Barbaras mannor did breake & the Fence thereupon & one Sixty foot
tobaccoe house did burne & with fire Consume to the ground & & other
Enormities to him did there doe against the peace &c whereupon the Said
Thomas Saith he is worse & hath Lost to the vallew of three thousand pounds
of tobaccoe & thereupon he bringeth his Suite
And the deft Came & defended the force & injury when &c & Saith
he is in nowise guilty of the Said trespas here alledged agst him & of this
he putts himself & on the Country & the Sd Plt in Like manner wherefore
a venire facias was directed to the Sheriff who returned a pannell of twelve men
whose names are hereunder written by the oathes of whom the truth Should be
tryed in the accon aforesaid vizt
John wheeler
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Humphry warren
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Kellam Magloghlin
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John Thomkinson
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Gerrard Browne
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Philip Browne
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George Godfrey
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Jno Morris
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Robert Downes
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Tho Corker
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Daniel Mathena
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Francis Wine
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who being all Sworne in open Court And having heard the Evidences
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Charles County Court, Liber E, Folio 581
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on both parts Say & for their verdict doe deliver, That they cannot finde
any Cause of accon agt the Sd Richd Fowkes. whereupon the Court grant a nonsuite
agt the plt wth Costs of Suite
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