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right of the whole Hand with others Hands att £1000. att least,
and this deponent beleeveth that the Freemen upon the said
Hand would all have generally beene bound together to have
bought the said Estate, soe possessed by the said Evelin, att
the above said rates and to have paid the same in 2 or 3
yeares.
Ad 30 Dicit et deponit That the said Evelin in or about the
Month of November 1637. did come upp to the said Plantation
and brought thither a Commission under the Colony Seale of
Maryland, by vertue whereof the said Evelin was made Com-
mander of the said Ile of Kent and did by vertue of his said
Commission summon the Inhabitants and Freemen on the said
Plantation to appeare before him at the Fort And did there in
this deponent's and the rest of the Freemen there assembled
command the Patent of Maryland, then brought upp by M^r
Zachary Mottersedd a Gentleman of Maryland to be read,
although the said Freemen did not consent thereunto, And
that att the same time it was demanded of the said Evelin,
whether he were an agent for the said Clobery and Company
or for the Marylanders, whereupon he the said Evelin
answered, he was for both, and further the said Evelin then
said that whereas he had lately spoken against the Maryland
Patent, and that the said Claborne's Patent was firme and good
against the same, now he the said Evelin was better informed
and was formerly mistaken, But now he the said Evelin under-
stood it better, or words to that effect to this deponent's best
remembrance, And further deposeth not.
Ad 31. Dicit et deponit That upon the reading of the said
Clobery and Murhead theire letter of Atturney articulate, this
deponent heard M^r John Butler say, Captain Evelin what needs
that, noe body doth interrupt you in the Marchants busines,
you have done already and shall doe what you please none of
us will interrupt you, or words to the like effect, Neither doth
this deponent knowe that anybody did interrupt or hinder the
said Evelin in the peaceable injoying of the estate belonging to
the said Jointstocke to the said Clobery and Company except
M^rs Gartrude James who by vertue of a Deede from the said
Claborne did claime one sixt part of the same in the right of
the said Claborne but was denied by the said Evelin to have
any part thereof neither could she recover itt.
Ad 32. Dicit et deponit That the said Evelin did att his
goeing away make severall letters of Atturney to the articu-
late, M^r Lugarr and Walker who have thereby injoyed and
disposed of a good part of the said Jointstocke, but what the
valew thereof be, this deponent cannot certainely sett downe.
And otherwise deposeth not.
Ad 34. Dicit et deponit That the said Evelin did neglect to

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