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      or in the now dwelling howse of the sd Thomas Stones scituate Liber A.

      in Cateaton streete in London in forme following (tht is to say)

      on the one & twentith day of January next, ensuing the date

      wthin written one hundd & fifty pownds & on the one &

      twentith day of July then next ensuing other one hundd & fifty

      pownds in full paymt of the sd somme of three hundd pownds.

      Then this obligaon to be uoyd, or els to stand in force

        Thomas Stone of London Merchant aged 68 yeares or there

      abouts deposeth tht Thomas Weston formerly of London Iron

      monger standeth indebted unto the sd Tho: Stone principall

      debt besides interest the summe of one hundd & thirty fiue

      pownds by Bond, as by accompt sent Capt Willm Stone

                                  prme Thomas Stone

      Jurat. 100 August 1647.

              Robt:  Aylett

         Mary-Land the 3d January. 1644

      Copy Mr Weston's lre as far   Sr I haue receiued yor lre of the 2

         as concernes &c: past: Besides what is uppon yor Vncles

      accompt yor Brother Mr Jno Stone had of me many yeares past

      a parcell of Tob: wch though I never saw him since, I had notice

      from him made 70 & od pownds. I desyre you will write to

      yor Vncle, & uppon his informaon, what tht was, & what is due,

      I will by gods help make you satisfaction. I haue bene in great

      care of tht Bond. But the last yeare when I thought to haue

      gone to London, I had all my goods taken from me by Bassett

      the Vice-Admirall of Cornwall. wch though hitherto detayned

      by him, I hope is not lost, for I had order from the King to stop

      his proceedings. And the Country being troublesome I could

      not travell to make an end of the busines. But the goods is

      yett in his hands, in a howse whereof he hath one Key, & I

      another. By reason whereof I was forced to come over meanely

      prouided, & the little goods I had was forced to engage for

      hyre of the ship I came ouer in, whereof I haue not any thing

      left, worth speaking of. &c: Yor Louing ffreind to command

                                       Tho:   Weston

                           Endors.

                   To Capt William Stone

                   this dd. Accomack.

        Know all men by these prnts tht I Thomas Stone of the Citty

      of London haberdasher, haue made assigned, & in my steed

      & place by these prnts haue putt & constituted my louing

      Cossen, Capt Willm Stone of Accomack in Virginia Marcht my

      true & lawfull Attorney, for me & in my name, to ask, demand,

      sue, recouer & receiue of the Exequutors Admistrators or As-