>Return-Path: DARNELL-L-request@rootsweb.com >Resent-Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 20:21:57 -0800 (PST) >From: Altomonte <Altomonte@aol.com> >Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 23:11:22 EST >To: darnell-l@rootsweb.com >Cc: Wabcd@aol.com >Subject: David Darnell >Organization: AOL (http://www.aol.com) >Resent-Message-ID: <"6vITfD.A.cuF.LJrz0"@fp-1.rootsweb.com> >Resent-From: DARNELL-L@rootsweb.com >X-Mailing-List: <DARNELL-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/227 >X-Loop: DARNELL-L@rootsweb.com >Resent-Sender: DARNELL-L-request@rootsweb.com > >According to Stafford County, VA Order Book in Court held on March 13, 1690, >Capt. George Brent, Attorney for John Rayley in Maryland, obtained a judgement >against David for 1,287 lbs. of tobacco on December 11, 1689. Brent claimed >that David did not pay the debt due. Through his attorney Richard Gibson, it >was proven that David had paid the debt and the court officially discharged >him from the debt. Brent was ordered by the court to make payment of 50 lbs. >of tobacco to David including court costs. > >George Brent was a successful attorney from a prominent family in Maryland who >often found himself on the opposite side of David in court as well as in >political and religious matters. Brent was a Catholic and his family was >close to the Calvert family who was granted all of Maryland by the King of >England. David was an ardent Protestant and friend of the revolutionaries >that overthrew the Calvert government in Maryland and also opposed the >government in Virginia. > > Lucy Barron (617) 495-2446 Senior Serial Cataloger e-mail: lbarron@fas.harvard.edu Widener Library, Rm. 87 Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138