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said Claiborne's Pattent was of noe effect or force but was for
Nova Scotia and other places neere New England and did not
give Authority to trade in the Bay of Virginia or Maryland,
for he the said Claiborne had nothing to doe there, and that
the said Evelin said the Governor of Virginia would assist the
said Governor of Maryland if they would not yield upp the
said Hand quietlie, and that he the said Evelin would not be
the man that should withstand or denye itt, for he was capable
what would follow after, and that the said Evelin did att the
same time command that the foresaid letter of Atturney from
Clobery and Murhead should be there read, unto which Mr
John Butler and all or most of the Freemen replied, Capt:
Evelin what needs that, noebody doth interrupt you in the
Marchants busines, you may doe what you please, noe man
doubts your Authority.
Ad 32. Articulum dicit et deponit That the said Evelin att
his comeing for England from the said Plantation did make
severall letters of Atturney, and by the same did assigne over
all the goods, debts and servants and estate whatsoever of the
said Clobery and Company upon the said Ile of Kent unto Mr
Lugar Secretary of Maryland, which said Lugar did by vertue
thereof sell John Dandy and Phillipp West theire times of
service, and hath received severall debts due to the said
Cloberry and Company, and further deposeth not
Ad 33. Articulum dicit et deponit That he this deponent
hath heard the said Evelin say he did deliver unto one
Thomas Smith about 60 yards of Trading Cloath together
with severall quantities of Truckingstuffe; but what or what
quantitie of truckingstuffe he knoweth not but he hath heard
that Robert Turtle which kept the Mill say that the said
Thomas Smith did deliver into the Mill unto him the said
Robert Turtle forty or fifty bushells of Corne to this deponents
best remembrance, and that the said Evelin did command
the said Turtle to deliver of the same Corne and other Corne
in the said Mill (when Corne was very scarce) 4 hoggsheads
of Meale, and that the said Evelin sent the said Meale to Mary-
land whereby the said servants had been very hard put to itt
for want of Corne, if the said Thomas Smith and other friends
of the said Clabornes had not supplied them, he the said
Evelin never tooke any care thereof, by whose supplies and by
grinding of Corne att the said Mill, the servants did not want
much Corne that yeare and that the said Evelin badd the
said servants gett Oysters and shifft for themselves for he had
noe meate nor Corne for them nor could not tell where to
gett it.
Ad 34. Articulum dicit et deponit That the said Evelin did
neglect to gett Corne by trade when the said servants stood in
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