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       Cow therefore yor petitionrs humbly desireth yor worsp to be Liber A.

       pleased to take it into yor Consideration whereby they may

       be now satisfied, wch Cattle wth there increase would haue byn

       nine: And yor petitionrs shall euer pray:

         Giles Brent Esqr in the cause of Nicholas Ketin and James

       Lynsey deposeth: that hymselfe and Mr Lewger, then Comissr for

       the Lo: Proprietor priuate estate did (being appointed by his Lopp

       to prouid for Mr Gilmett) Contract wth them for thire seruice

       to Mr Gilmett, that he should haue certaine cattle, and veryly

       thinketh the bargaine to haue byn soe as is suggested in the

       petition, and the trubbles ensueing in the Country knoweth

       nothing of payment made.

         7o May 1649 In the name of God Amen 1648 I John

       Tompson doe make my will & testamt in the yeare of our

       Lord 1648.

         It first I bequeath my soul vnto God and my body to bee

       buryed in the earth. Item I give vnto Georg and his wife and

       James Walter Plantacon and all that I haue and vnto david

       Pricherd a Barrell of Corne It I give Cloues & Mace my old

       Coate and this shirt I haue on It I owe Mr Matrum 60 l of Tob:

       It I owe to Walter Beane some certaine Tobacco but I knowe

       not what it is Item I make Georg Ackrick & James Walker

       my true & lawfull executers when my debts is paid desiring

       God to bee mercifull vnto mee and to forgiue mee my sins as

       witnes my hand the 19th day of febr 1648 Jo: Tompson

         witnes david Prichard Cloues Mace his marke

         May 6o 1649 Cloues Mace at the request of James Walker

       and George Ackrick examined & deposed saith. That the

       aboue specified will is the true & last will of the John Tompson

       as hee verily beleeveth and that hee was prsent when the said

       John Tompson signed his will with his owne hand either 3 or

       4 dayes before his death. And that hee the said John Tompson

       although at that ptsent hee was weake in body yet was hee in

       pfect memory at the signing thereof     The Marke of

       jurat coram me Wm Dretton Cloues Macc

       Octb: 6to Robt Clarke Survayer, demandeth of

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       held at St     Robt Kager three hundred pounds of tobb and

       Maryescaske dew for surveying of 400 acres of land, by

       Gouernr warrant, dated prmo Jan last:

       Giles Brent the defendant denies the the demand

      Esqr      the Court found for the plantife according to the

       demand

         Slymby p Aturn Geo. manners denieth the demand to be

       trew