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bill as follows to with, "The joint answer of Hugh
Miller Sen. and Benjamin Harrison to the bill of
complaint exhibitted against them and others in the Paris
District Court. These defendants saving and reserving
to themselves all and all manner of benefit of exception
to the many errors and manifest insufficiencies in the
said complainants bill of complaint contained for
them to answer, they answer and say: That these two
defendants did on the sixth day of January 1798 for
a valuable consideration give thin bond to the said
Daniel Callaghan in the penal sum of Two thousand
pounds conditioned for the payment of one thousand
pounds to be paid in one year after the date of the
said bond. These defendants do further answer that
they at different times paid to the said Daniel Callaghan
Three hundred and fifty two pounds eight shillings
and three pence half penny. These defendants further
answer and say that on the 24th day of April 1798
some considerable time before the said Daniel Callaghan
left the state of Kentucky he assigned over to a
certain George Hamilton of Cynthiana the ballance
or remainder of said bond which these defendants had given
to said Callahan, and received a full and [compleat?]
consideration for the same as these defendants believe.
These defendants deny that they are in any manner
indebted to the said Callahan either in money, goods or
effects, whatsoever accepting the bond above referred to and
assigned to the said Hamilton on the day aforesaid as
above stated towit, on the 24th day of April 1798. These
defendants deny that they understood or knew that a
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