202 Claiborne's Petition and

P. R. O.

Colonial
Papers.

appoint the said servants theire severall labours who followed
and obeyed the said Evelin's directions, as he this deponent
hath often heard the said servants say they would doe And
further deposeth not.
Ad 26. dicit et deponit That the said Evelin about May 1637
came unto the said Plantation, and did there by vertue of the
said letter of Atturney from the said Clobery and Murhead to
this deponent's owne knowledge, take and had full possession
power and Command of all the Plantations houses goods
servants Mills and whatsoever else belonged to the said
Clobery and Company on the said Plantation without any
hindrance or interruption from M^r John Butler William Blizard
or any other in the said Claibome's right or otherwise, And
that the said Evelin did order and appoint the said servants
concerneing theire labours, And that the said Evelin did sell
and lett goe free the said servants as is articulate, before theire
times were expired, but for how much this deponent cannot
certainly tell, And that the said Evelin did carry to Maryland
contrary to his Authority in the said letter of Atturney to this
deponent's owne knowledge, Ascu, Edward Deering Andrew
Baker William Williamson and his wife, John Hatch Phillipp
West John Dandy and John Hobson, and did there att Mary-
land imploy and sett them to worke upon a Plantation And
further deposeth not.
Ad 27. dicit et deponit That the said Evelin by vertue of the
foresaid letter of Atturney from the foresaid Clobery and Mur-
head hath soe taken into his power and possession as aforesaid
and hath disposed sold and made away with the servants
belonging to the said Jointstocke and carried them to Maryland
and hath heard that the said Evelin did alsoe sell and carry
away divers of the goods as Axes, Hoes and Kettles and divers
other things belonging to the said Jointstocke, But for the
whole estate there left by the said Claborne belonging to the
Jointstocke (excepting the said Claborne's particular estate)
and take possession of and enjoyed by the said Evelin by
vertue of the said Clobery and Murhead's letter of Atturney,
this deppnent beleeveth were then of good valew viz^t the
servants being 36 in number, whose names are mentioned in
the articulate Accounts which this deponent hath seene and
perused) att the valew of £500. whose labours many of them
being Carpenters and Coopers might have beene imployed to a
greater benefitt, concerneing theire Trades, And this deponent
alsoe beleeveth that the truckingstuffe householdstuffe Pipe-
staves boates and other goods then mentioned in the Inventory
was worth or might easily have beene gained the valew of £900:
And this deponent alsoe beleeveth and valueth the 3 Mills one
then goeing and 2 in frames to be worth £300: And lastlie he
valueth the Plantation, Houses, Pipestaves, the Orchard, Hoggs