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well together, and that the said Evelin did the same day the
said goods were landed att the said Plantation, take some
pieces of the trading Cloath then sent over and took with him
alsoe certaine Axes into the Pinnace Elizabeth and did goe a
trading into Patomeck River, as this deponent hath heard by
some of the servants that were with him, but whether the said
Evelin hath given any account thereof, this deponent knoweth
not.
Ad 22 Articulum dicit et deponit that the said Claiborne in
or about the middle of May 1637 being in preparation to come
for England, as the said Clobery told this deponent he should
doe, the said Claiborne did in the presence and hearing of this
deponent and of divers free men and servants assembled upon
the Plantation make offer unto the said Evelin upon condition
that he the said Evelin would give the said Claiborne for the
use of the said Clobery and Company a Bond of £3000 that
he the said Evelin should not sell nor make away the said
Plantation or Hands or any part thereof unto the Marylanders
or any other and not remove or carry away any of the servants
from the said Hand, that then he the said Claiborne said, he
would deliver unto the said Evelin all the goods, servants or
whatsoever belonged to the said Clobery and Company in the
said joint stocke account to the Inventory thereof made
and prepared by the said Claiborne and the said Evelin
each of them had a Coppy according to the said Clobery
advice as this deponent heard the said Claiborne and
Evelin say. But heard the said Evelin then and there
deny and refuse to give any such bond, whereupon the said
Claiborne replied that for his owne part thereof and as farr as
it any way concerned him the said Claiborne, he would not
assigne the said Plantation or any of the servants or goods unto
the said Evelin And that thereupon the said Evelin said that
he did not care to have any such assignment from the said
Claiborne, for he would have them whether he would or noe,
for he had more to doe with them, then the said Claiborne
had, and that within 3 or 4 dayes the said Claiborne departed
for England And that the said Evelin both while the said
Claiborne was there and in his absence freely disposed and
ordered all the said Plantation and the said goods and servants
as he thought good, and did appoint this deponent and all
the other servants theire labours who followed and obeyed
the said Evelin's directions, and appointed this deponent to
make quarter canns and other worke, which he did accordingly.
Ad 26 Articulum dicit et deponit That the said Evelin
about Midsomer 1637 or thereabouts came unto the Plantation
aforesaid and did there by vertue of the Articulate letter of
Attorney take possession of all the Plantations, Houses, Goods,
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