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vertue of a letter of Atturney from the said Clobery and
Murhead, take and had full possession, power and Command
of all the Plantations Houses goods Mills, servants, and what-
soever belonged to the Jointstocke on the said Hand, without
any hindrance or interruption from M^r John Butler William
Blizard or any other in the said Claborne's right, as this
deponent beleeveth, and that the said Evelin did order and
direct all the said servants theire severall labours some to one
thing some to another, and did sell some of the said servants
theire times of service, and did lett others goe free as is
articulate, and that the said Evelin did transport or cause to
be transported to Maryland John Ascu Edward Deering John
Hatch Phillipp West John Dandy John Hobson Andrew Baker
William Williamson and his wife and did to this deponent's
owne knowledge employ and sett them to worke upon a
Plantation att Maryland, by whose worke the said Evelin
hath gained or might have gained, as this deponent beleeveth,
fewer of the said servants being Carpenters, yearely 10000^lbs
of Tobacco and find them Clothes and further deposeth not.
Ad 27. Dicit et deponit That the said Evelin by vertue of
the said letter of Atturney, from the said Clobery and Mur-
head as aforesaid hath soe taken into his power possession and
disposition as aforesaid and hath disposed sold and made away
with a great part of the said goods unto this deponent and
other Freemen on the said Hand And that the said Evelin to
this deponent's owne knowledge hath transported other part
thereof to Maryland and to Virginia, and there sold and dis-
posed .of the Axes hoes &c. But for the valew of the whole
estate then left by the said Claborne belonging to the Joint-
stocke (excepting the particuler estate of the said Claborne)
taken possession and Injoyed by the said Evelin by vertue of
the said Clobery and Murheads letter of Atturney, this de-
ponent beleeveth were then of good valew, viz^t the servants
being 36 in number att the valew of £500 whose labors many
of them being Carpenters and Coopers might have beene
imployed to a greater benefitt in making Mills Pipestaves and
other good workes, Next this deponent rateth the trucking-
stuffe, householdstuffe, Pinnaces, boates, and other goods then
mentioned in that Inventory to be worth £900. or £1000.
sterling and might easily have beene made of a farr greater
valew, And that lately the Goverment of Maryland asked
this deponent for some part of the trucke then yett remaining
16000^lbs of Tobacco And this deponent hath been offered by a
Marchant 2^d 1/2 a pound for Tobacco to be paid by bill of
Exchange, Then the Windmill goeing and 2 frames of Mills
this deponent valeweth att £,400 sterling, and lastlie the
Plantation, Houses, Pipestaves, the Orchard, hoggs, and the