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Short Title: (i) Adams v Nesbitt; and (ii) Smith v Nesbitt. Plaintiff(s): (i) James...

Catalogue reference: E 134/27Geo3/East3

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This record is about the Short Title: (i) Adams v Nesbitt; and (ii) Smith v Nesbitt. Plaintiff(s): (i) James... dating from 1787 Apr 25-1787 May 21 in the series Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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E 134/27Geo3/East3
Date
1787 Apr 25-1787 May 21
Description

Short Title: (i) Adams v Nesbitt; and (ii) Smith v Nesbitt.

Plaintiff(s): (i) James Adams; and (ii) William Smith esq, John Randall esq, and James Jackson, assignees of the estate and effects of James Adams, a bankrupt.

Defendant(s): (i) Thomas Nesbitt; and (ii) Thomas Nesbitt.

Depositions for: Plaintiffs.

Subject of Depositions: The sale or barter, etc, by defendant of the goods, etc, constituting the cargo (being the property of and shipped by said James Adams on board the brigantine or vessel called the Eltham in the port of London) at the island of Madeira or elsewhere, previous to the arrival of said vessel on the coast of Africa in 1780, etc [two cases].

County: London; Madeira [Portugal]; Sierra Leone.

Taken at: Court of Exchequer.

Date of Commission: 25 Apr 1787.

Document Type: Commission; interrogatories and depositions (26 Apr 1787); the further examination of the defendant Thomas Nesbitt taken before Francis Ingram, deputy remembrancer of the Court of Exchequer (pursuant to an order of said Court made 13 May 1782). See also: E 134/26Geo3/Mich14.

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