Fredericksburg District Court
Superior Court of Law
CR-SL-L  Document #573-14
1807
Nimrod Saunders vs John Taliaferro
King George County,
Nimrod Saunders complains of John Taliaferro in custody &c of a
plea of trefspafs on the case. For that whereas the said John on
the   day of   in the year to wit at the parish of    and county
aforesaid was indebted to the said Nimrod in the sum of sixty one
pounds ten shillings and five pence half penny for the work and
labor, care and dilgence of the said Nimrod as a House Joiner by
him the said Nimrod before that time done, performed, and
bestowed in and about the businefs of the said John and for the
said John at his special insistence and request, and also for
divers materials and other necefsary things found, provided, used
and applied by the said Nimrod on that occasion and at the
special insistence and request of the said John; and being to
indebted he the said in consideration thereof afterwards to wit
on the same say and year aforesaid undertook and faithfully
promised the said Nimrod to pay him the said sum of money when he
the said John should be thereunto afterwards required.

And whereas afterwards to wit on the day and year aforesaid at
the parish and county aforesaid in consideration that the said
Nimond at the like special instance and request of the said John
had before that time done, performd, and bestowd other his work,
and labor, care and diligence in and about other the businefs of
the said John, for the said John, and at his like special
instance and request: and had also at the like request of the
said John found, provided, and applied divers other mateirals and
other necefsary things in and about the said businefs, he the
said John there and then undertook and faithfully promised the
said Nimrod to pay him so much money as he therefore reasonably
deserved to have pd.  the same when he the said John should be
thereto afterwards requested. And the said Nimrod avers that he
therefore reasonably deserved to have of the said John for the
same this sixty one pounds ten shillings & five pence half penny.
To wit at the parish and county aforesaid whereof the said John
afterwards to wit on the same day and year aforesaid then had
notice.  Yet the said John not regarding his said several
promises and understandings by him and in his behalf as aforesaid
but contriving and fraudulently intending craftily and subtlily
to defraud and deceive the said Nimrod in the behalf hath not yet
paid the said serval sums of money or any parts thereof to the
said Nimrod (altho so to do he the John was requested &c) but to
pay the same the said John hath betherto wholly refused and still
doth refuse to the damage of the said Nimrod œ110 and therefore
he brings suit.
Rootes pg

Col John Taliaferro's Bill

To framing 70 Squares @ 7/ per Square               24.10.0
To Casing 9 windows @ 12/ per window                 5.08.0
To casing 2  do     @  7/6   2 do @ 4/               1.03.0
To weatherboarding 19 Sqrs @ 7/                      6.13.0
To casing porticoe plate 32 feet @6d per ft          0.16.0
To geting shingling lath 800 feet @ 3œ per M         2.08.0
To geting 3500 feet featheredge plank @ 3œ5s per M  11.07.6
To puting up 56 feet box & cornish @ 1/ ft           2.16.0
To geting 3200 feet scantling @ 4œ per M            12.16.0
To shingling 8 Sqrs @ 7/ per Sqr                     2.16.0
To building a kitchen charge 13œ10s                 13.10.0
To drefsing 5000 shingles @ 5/ per M                 1.05.0
To puting up 72ft bargeboards with moulds @4d per ft 1.04.0
To puting up 44ft corner boards @ 4d per ft          0.14.8
To making 2 doors @ 12/ door                         1.04.0
To geting 11 posts for porticoe & poarch @ 6/ ea     3.06.0
To one hand following ye cart 8 days @ 3/ per day    1.04.0
Amt of Bill                                        œ93.00.2
a third laid on                                     31.00.0«
whole amount                                      œ124.00.2«

1801 By Goods & c of G. Tod  œ47.09.9
     By my ??       G Tod
     against you              15.00.0
                              62.09.9               62.09.9
Due Nimrod Saunders                                œ61.10.5«