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Court and Testamentary Business, 1649—50. 541
Georg Watts being examined & sworne saith, that the Cowe Liber A. wch Capt Brent hath received out of the possion of Anthony Rawlins is none of Capt Brents Cowe And further saith that the Heifer wch hee the said Capt Brent claymeth is dead and further saith not Sign Geo: Watts Jurat in Cur teste me Ro: Sedgrave cl de Corn Northumbland.
And the deft Mrs Margaret Brent acknowledged that her p. brother Capt Giles Brent never had any Cowe out of Anthony Rawlins possion but the Cowe in question Whereby it mani festly appeared vnto this Court that the said Cowe did not belong to Capt Giles Brent as was formerly supposed It is therefore ordered vppon the proofe and acknowledgrnt afore said that the said former order bee discharged And the said Mrs Brent in whose possession the said Cowe nowe is shall de liver vpp the possession thereof to the Plaintiff vppon demand Mr Richard ilusbands Marriner plte The plaintiff complayneth against Mr Phillipp Land deft the deft for that hee vniustly de Cur 15o ffebr teyneth from him certaine goods & writings de Present as the day before livered to him by John Treleague the pltes servant and Captand craveth to haue the same returned to him in John Price . . — . , kinde or present satisfaccon in Tobacco. lo wch the deft confesseth hee had certaine goods & writings of the said Treleague, divers of wch goods hee had disposed of and alleadged bee bought the same of him for the next yeares pay but could not make the same appeare It is therefore ordered that the said deft shall forthwith returne to the plaintiffe the said writings and such of the said goods as are still in his custody viz: An Angell peice of gould 1 2 paire of Irish stock ings 2 shirts one paire of stockings and a sea Bedd And for the goods wch bee had disposed of shall forthwith satisfy and pay to the Plaintiff seaven hundred sixty seaven pounds of Tob: in Caske wch they were valued at in open Court together with Costs of suite being seaventy pounds of Tob in Caske
Thomas Sturman plte The Plaintiffe craveth to bee releived Mrs Margaret Brent deft against the deft for that she vniustly dis turbeth him in his possession of a House & Plantacon in St Michaell Hundred hee claymeth to belong to him by vertue of grant heretofore made to Thomas Pasmore of 1000 Acres of land by the late Governor of this Province Leonard Calvert Esqr deceased within divident the said Plantacon lyeth And the defendant denyed that Mr Calvert whose Executor shee is ever granted to Pasmore 1000 Acres in that Place being within the said Mr Calverts Mannor wherevppon the originall Grant to Pasmore was read as also 2 other subsequent
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