116     Court and Testamentary Business, 1642.

  Liber P. R. Copie of a mortgage 23. July 1642

         p. 9   Memorandum that in consideraon of eighteene hundred wt

                  of tobacco & cask released at my request by mr Lewger to

                  Thomas ffranclin & Peter macrill, I doe hereby assigne, convay,

                  and make over vnto the said mr Lewger & his assignes, all

                  my cropp of tobacco now being at St Jeromes to have and to

                  hold the same vnto him and them, for my vse, vntill the ifeast

                  of Christmasse next, in case before that time I shall pay or

                  cause to be paid vnto the said mr Lewger or his assignes the

                  said summe of eighteene hundred Wt of good merchantable

                  leafe tobacco & cask at some place in St George's river; And

                  if I shall not so doe, then to have and to hold it to him & his

                  assignes to his & their owne proper vse. And if &c.

                                           signed Thomas Davison

                  mark of TF Thomas ffranclin

                    Peter + macrill

                                5th decemb

                                And I Robert nicolls doe make over all my

                              interest in the said cropp for payment of such

                              debts as mr Lewger hath vndertaken for me

                                            mark of + Robt nicolls

                  Copie of a Mortgage; Mar: 8. 1641

                    ffor the security of the accompt this day owing to mr Secre

                  tary, I have made over & aliened to him all my interest in one

                  breynded cow, and one black steere, wch I bought of Arthur

                  Price of Virginea so that if the said debt be not satisfied or

                  secured before Chrjstmasse next then he is to have the said

                  cow & steere as from this day at the rate of one thousand wt

                  of tob. And if they die afore the said time, the perill is to be

                  mine, & he may demand of me other security in place of what

                  shall die. And if the said accot be satisfied or secured afore

                  the said time then they & the of them from this day are

                  to be to my vse, as if this deed had not beene

                                           mark of + Robert nicolls

                  Copie of a Recognisance 14. August 1642

                    Accompted this day wth mr Lewger, and I remainc debtor to

                  him twelve hundred and fifty Wt of tobacco & cask. ffor security

                  wherof I doe hereby make over to him all my cropp of tobacco

                  now being vpon the ground, to the vse of the said mr Lewger

                  vntill the said debt be p[d] & afterward to my vse. And vpon

                  the paymt of twelve hundred, mr Lewger promises to forgive

                  the odd fifty.

                                        mark A of Anthony Rawlins