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       peice cutt alonge slanting the tope or upper part of the Right Liber A.

       eare, wth a slitt under the eare, unto Mary the Daughter of

       Walter, & ffrancis Peaks, to her owne use, from this day, for

       euer to aduance her a portion. And in case the sd Mary shall

       depart this life before she bee fourteene yeares old, That then

       the sd Calfe & all her female increase shall bee & remaine vnto

       ffrancis the Wife of the sd Walter, to her owne proper use

       for cur                           John Garbo

       Recognit Cora me Tho: Greene Gouer:

       Octobr 27th 1648.                          p. 196

         I ffrancis Vanden doe make OUr & conuey unto John

       Hallowes all my Sallary due to me in Mary-Land, for keeping

       my Ordinary, or any way belonging to mee & it is in con

       sideraon of a Debt, as will appeare by Bill, under my hand for

       400 l Tob: And further I the sd ffrancis doe promise to pay

       the sd Hallowes what charges he shall bee att in gathering up

       the sd Summe. Witt my hand

       Wittnes                     ffrancis Van Enden.

        James Johnson.

         Octobr 30th George Manners (att the request of Edw:

       Cottam) deposed, sayth That he uery well knoweth the Bull

       now claymed by Tho: Baker, as a gwift unto him from Walter

       Cotherill about the beginning of the Rebellion in this prouince.

       And tht to his knowledge it was a calfe of a 3 tetted Cow wch

       he credibly heard, & uerily beleiueth to bee a Cow plundered

       from Edw: Cottam, in the time of the sd rebellion by one Rich:

       Hobin. And further he declareth his knowledge of the sd Bull,

       claymed as afore for tht during the sd Rebeln hee this Dept

       bought both the sd tetted Cow & this her calfe, of the sd Rich:

       Hobin, betweene Michaelmas & Christmas in the yeare 1646.

       The sd calfe being calued about feb: or march afore. Coloured

       darke browne wth a bright list downe the backe, a white star in

       the forehead, somewhat white under the belly, & tagged tayled.

       Eare marked att the time, tht hee this Dept bought the sd Bull,

       wth one eare underkeeld, the other hauing a smale peice taken

       of slatning from under the eare, The wch after hee this Dept

       altered as followeth. The eare underkeeled hee altered nott

       att all: of the other, hee enlarged the peice taken from under

       the eare, making it another underkeele; only he left it towards

       the roote of the eare, wth an Notch in, like a little forke, wth a

       Square peice taken from ouer the sd eare. And further hce

       sayth not.

       Jurat. Coram Gour            George Manners