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made to the said Browne of and from all manner of service
whatsoever either to the said Claiborne or to any other what-
soever in the said Merchant's right) lett goe free before his
time was expired, and that Thomas Audley, and John Scar-
brough theire times of service was by the said Evelin sold and
turned over to Servant Hugh Heyward, he this deponent being
att the same time partner with the said Heyward) for 600lbs of
Tobacco yearly, and that Edward Parry and John Walker, told
him this deponent, that the said Evelin had sold them theire
times of service, and that the said Evelin told this deponent that
he intended to settle and did accordinglie raise and make a
Plantation to his owne use att Maryland, and told this deponent
that it would be better to live there, then where he did on the
Ile of Kent, and that the said Evelin for the purpose aforesaid
tooke with him many trees out of the garden att the said Ile of
Kent, and alsoe did transport or cause to be transported with
the said trees to his Plantation att Maryland aforesaid John
Ascu, Edward Deering, Andrew Baker, William Williamson,
and his wife, John Hatch, Phillipp West, John Dandy, and
John Hobson, and as the said servants afterwards told this
deponent he the said Evelin did employ and sett them to worke
on the said Plantation att Maryland with which servants fower
of them being carpenters and the rest labourers the said Evelin
as this deponent thinketh might have gained att least £10.
sterling a yeare a head one with another. And further de-
poseth not.
Ad 27. dicit et deponit That the said Evelin haveing by
vertue of the foresaid Letter of Atturney taken into his posses-
sion all the said Plantations on the Ile of Kent and goods,
servants, householdstuffe, truckingstuffe and other particulers
as aforesaid hath sold and made away with part of the said
householdstuffe and other goods to the Inhabitants and free-
men there, and as this deponent hath heard hath transported
other part thereof to Virginia and Maryland, but what quantity
he knoweth not, and that the said Evelin sold to William
Medcalfe one sow with Pigg that was belonging to the said
Jointstocke, this deponent then liveing with the said Medcalfe
But to what valew the said goods, servants, householdstuffe
and hoggs soe disposed of by the said Evelin were of, this
deponent knoweth not.
Ad 30. Articulum dicit et deponit, That all things therein
conteyned were and are true.
Ad 31. Articulum dicit et deponit That he this deponent
hath oftentimes heard Capt: Evelin say to the Inhabitants and
freemen on the said Hand, that it would be better to live under
the Government of Maryland then under the Government of
Virginia and did instance and give many reasons therefore,
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