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Judicial and Testamentary Business of the Provincial Court, 1637-1650
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                  62     Court and Testamentary Business, 1639.

            

            Liber Z.   yor said Admraon; & the whole residue or remainder of estate

                  wch shalbe in yor hands vpon yor said accompt you will pay &

                  deliver to our said Secretary afore the first day of march next

                  to the end it may be preserved in the Court for the vse of the

                  said Catharine Smith when she cometh of age. Given at St

                  maries 16th March 1639. witnesse Or deare brother Leonard

                  Calvert &c.

                    the said William Brainthwaite & Thomas Gerard gent as

                  his surety, doe acknowledge themselves to owe vnto the Lord

                  Proprietarie six thousand weight of good tobacco to be levied

                  vpon them or either of them their or either of their assignes, in

                  case the said william Brainthwaite shall faile in any of the con

                  ditions required of him by the Commission and his oathe

                  aforesaid

                                               Willm Branthwaite

                                               Thomas Gerrard

            

                    the said william Brainthwaite made oath to the purpose above

                  mentioned.

                 1. march.1640.

            

                    this Recognisance abovesaid is cancelled, by reason the

                  Accompt is brought in; & 33 l tob. remaining vpon accont & the

                  Admraon is discharged

                                                    Jo:   Lewger

            

             101 The depson of Robert Lake of the Ile of Kent planter aged

                  twenty one yeares or thereabouts, taken by the Commander;

            

                  febru: 22. 1639.

                    This deponent saith that during the sicknes of Henry Crawley

                  deceased, & two daies or thereabouts before his departure being

                  in perfect sense and memory made his last will, and testam:

                  Elisabeth Smith the wife of John Smith being present with

                  the said Crawley when he vttered these words, that if I die I

                  doe give all my whole estate vnto Katharine Smith my God

                  daughter, save onely my long gonne, and that I give vnto John

                  Glantham if he returne to the Iland. which words being spoken

                  by the said Crawley this deponent came into the chamber, &

                  the aforesaid Elisabeth Smith desired him to beare witnesse

                  of this his will. Then this deponent asked the said Crawley if

                  that were his will, and he answered it was, saying, If I die, I

                  give all my whole estate vnto my god-daughter Katharine

                  Smith save onely my long gonne wch I give to John Glantham

                  if he returne to the Iland againe. And further he deposeth

                  not.

                     Taken before me         signed, Robert Lake.

                  signed william Brainthwaite

            



 
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