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plaintiff or defendant for the execution
aforesaid from Sept. 1898

Answer. Because the defendant claimed
of this deponent, sheriff fee, whichis as
yet unsettled, and this deponent expected
to settle the execution aforesaid with the
defendant, until the plaintiff came and paid
the amount to this deponent SC. - The
reason why paid Mr.. t5aily 9th of August,
one thousand seven hundred and ninety-
six was, because the defendant had previ.
ously swore to his answer above stated, de-
nying having received II, and | then tho't
it high time, Mr.. Baily had MS money as
afurther conformation OF the business OF
this debt, George Summers hath snbse-
quent to his answer, and the above adcPo-
=sltion given me his obligation TO pay 4 ON
demand and which IS now in my posses,
sion. The foregoing will serve as sample.
OF the aanner and way, IN which George
Summers shath conducted himself, as re.
specss those parts Of the bill and answers.
have before observed that my father had
granted George Summers all has interest in
the sheriff's Office in 1885, on certain con.
ditions, one of which was, that George
Summers should collect his balances then
|. due, & wind up his public account &c. No
settlement Of which tookplace between ihem
though often requested, by my father, un-
iii the 9Th of June. one thousand seven
hundred and ninetytw on which.day it ap.
pears from George Summers's certi-
6cate wrote in my fathers books, that full
settlement Of all their accounts and trans.
actions had at that time been made, rac.
knowlcdging himself in debt to my father
81. 14s. 11f1-2d. and s2S lbs. lobaeco-.-st
which time the said George Summers
delivered to my father list of balances
said to be still due him, of money, to-
bacco, and ccsti6cates, which were of va
lue upwards of 1901. and informed the
said Iohn Radcliffe that he must take out
warrants, and he, Geo. Summers, would
appear to them on trial. 1t further APP
PEARS that at the aforesaid settlement,
George Summers obtained from the said
| John Radcliffe certificate stating their
accounts all to have been then settled ;
and that i'll some short time after, Geo.
Summers called on John Radcliffe, and
after seeing list Of warrants which John
I Radcliffe was about to get signed, in cr-
| der to proceed TO recover some OF the
| aforesaid balances returned by George
Summers to him unsolicited, that George
Summers asked for said list and on some
consideration, spoke of some mistake--and
THAI he then took back the list and ultimate.
" did refuse either to account with the
said John Radcliffe, therefor, or return the
lisr again, and proceeded to collecr and
| appropriate those balnces to his own pri-
vate use. The said George Summers hath
to many believe, reported that l had ia.
ken advantage of him, by procuring deed
/ of gift from my father, for all his property
and thereby depriving his wife of her divi-
dend Of h;s estate: to prove that in this in.
/ stance, as in all the others, and many err;
| roneous tales of his, he had stated untru:hs
~ stare the following as facts relative to
that circumstance, viz. that some time pre-
vious to February one thousand seven
hundred and ninety six, my father inform-
ed me of several debts he owed, and wish
ed paid, but that he had it no, in his power
to pay them without selling properly, and
whichhe me ant 10 do, unless | could raise
as much money as would answer the pur.
pose with convenience, and was willing to
| do So..-T That il t would, he would secure
1 .he repayment by making deed ofgift for
all he owned, on condition that | would
! execute a bond to him, that at his death
or my heirs. should call on three disin.er.
ested men, who should yalne his property,
from which amount was then and not till
| then, TO deduct what should be Cue me,
and the balance to be divided into three
eqaal parts, to which proposition | agreed
and went on to discharge the debts a
foresaid to a considerable amount. Some
time after thi. transaction my father again,
as l was informed, applied to- George
Summers for the aforesaid list Of balances,
but without any satisfaction. lin oonse-