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Mills, Servants and whatsoever belonged to the said Clobery
and Company, without any hindrance or interruption from the
articulate John Butler, William Blizard, or any other in the
said Claiborne's right, this deponent being then and there
present, that the said Evelin did leave John Walker Overseer
of the said houses, goods, mills and servants and John Sturman
sonne to this deponent kept the bookes for the said Walker,
and that the said Evelin did order and direct all the said
servants concerning theire Labours, and the said servants did
obey the said Evelin as they had formerly done the said
Claiborne, And that the said Evelin did appoint divers of the
said servants for the makeing of Pipe staves to worke with this
deponent and Thomas Keyne Coopers that is to say Howell
Morgan, Thomas White, John Sturman, Roger Baxter, William
Porter, Samuell Scouell and Mathew Royden, with said servants
made thirty five thousand Pipestaves before the Government
of Maryland tooke possession of them, and that the said Evelin
did appoint Robert Turtle Millwright to grind Corne at the
Mill, and alsoe did appoint Phillipp West, John Hobson, William
Williamson, to worke with the said Turtle in makeing of a new
Mill, And that the said Evelin tooke away William Porter
from makeing Pipestaves to tend the Mill in the said Turtle's
absence, and that the said Evelin did lett Originall Browne,
goe free before his time was expired, and that Thomas Ardley
and John Scarbrough theire times of service were sold and
turned over to Servant Hugh Keyward for the quantity of
6oo^lbs of Tobacco to be paid yearly during theire service, he
this deponent being present att the bargaine makeing, and
that the said Evelin sold Edmund Parry his time of service for
3oo^lbs of Tobacco att the same time And this deponent hath
heard that he the said Evelin sold Vincent Mansfeild time of
service to Nicholas Wright for 200^lbs of Tobacco, and that the
said Evelin sold John Walker his time for 400^lbs of Tobacco
yearely, and he this deponent hath seene the Couen^ts betweene
them, and that Monjoy Evelin was (as this deponent heard the
said Capt: Evelin say) by him the said Evelin left with the king
of Patomeck to learne the language, and had severall parcells
of Trucke with him, but the certaine quantity of Beaver,
Corne or other Commodities received therefore, this deponent
knoweth not, but beleeveth he had a good quantity to the
valew of eighty or a hundred pound, and that the said Evelin
did transport and carry to Maryland John Ascu, Edward
Deering, Andrew Baker, William Williamson, and his wife,
John Hatch, Phillipp West, John Dandy, Thomas Baker, and
John Hobson, all which were servants to the said Clobery and
Company, and did there att Maryland sett them to worke
upon a Plantation (as this deponent hath heard M^r Carington

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