534    Court and Testamentary Business, 1649—50.

            Liber A. 20. No. 1649 ffrancis Vandan acknowledgeth to Georg

                  Manners a Judgmt of 940 l of Tob: and Cask to bee paid the

              p. 309   tenth of October next being in discharge of a demand of 1000 l

                  Tob. vppon Record and the suit there vpon depending and all

                  suites and demands to this prsent day and Court charges to

                  bee equally paid betwixt them witnes theire hands

                                       ffrancis Vanenden

                  Testor Tho: Hatton   The marke of Georg Manners

                     13o ffebr 1650. Execuc inde ad satisfaciend

                    20 No: 1649 John Malham maketh oath that about Sep

                  tember 1648 hee was in company of others that brought a

                  Cowe from an Indian Towne called Machoatick vnto Matapania

                  on the south side of Patomeck River wch Cowe was branded

                  vppon the Horne with the Lres J. H. one of her Hornes being

                  broke, We Cowe John Hallowes tould this depont was one of

                  the two Cowes that hee the said Hallowes had formerly lent to

                  Nichas Gwiter wch Cowes bee said had swamme from St Kath

                  erens Island to St Clements Island And this depont wished

                  the said Mr Hollis to looke after the other Cowe at the said

                  Indian Towne where shee was left or else the Indians would

                  kill her or to that effect And this depont further saith that the

                  said Mr Hallowes offered to sell the saidi Cowe soe brought to

                  Matapania as aforesaid to this deponent, and sett a price vppon

                  her wch this depont did not like, and that the said Cowe was a

                  black Cowe.

                             Jurat coram mee

                                Tho: Hatton

                    20. No: 1649. Hugh Lee maketh oath that about Septem

                  ber 1648 John Hallowes gave liberty to this depont by writing

                  vnder his hand, to take into his possession and keepe soe

                  long as this depont pleased a black Cowe with one Horne (the

                  other being broken off Wch Cowe as this depont hath beene

                  informed by John Malham and Robert Honyborne was by them

                  and others about that time brought from Machoatick vnto

                  Matapania And this depont then tooke the said Cowe into

                  his possession and kept her till about the later end of March

                  next after and then shee dyed in Calving Jurat coram mee

                                Tho: Hatton

                    These 2 deposicons last aboue recited were soe taken after

                  the deponts had beene sumoned for that purpose by my self

                                                   Tho:   Hatton

               p. 310 11o January An Administracon granted to Anne Tompson

                  the Relict and Executrix of Wm Tompson of Newtowne de