210 Claiborne's Petition and

P. R. O.

Colonial
Papers.

gett Corne by trade when the Plantation stood in need thereof
and might have gott it by severall meanes with the estate of
the Jointstocke then in his hands, but did contrarywise lend or
sell two peeces of Trading Cloath to the Governor of Maryland,
with which he might have to this deponent's owne knowledge,
gott Corne and supplied the said Plantation, And that the
Governor of Maryland did (by persuasions as he this deponent
hath heard) come upp to the said Plantation, with the said
Evelin, and 40 armen men att least and landed upon the said
Hand, and did take possession thereof, and did take M^r John
Butler and Thomas Smith Prisoners and carried them to
Maryland wher the said Smith was condempned to this depo-
nent's owne knowledge, for he did baile the said Smith att that
time, And that the said Governor hath since againe come upon
the said Hand and Plantation and hath wholly reduced the said
Hand and the Inhabitants under the Government of Maryland
and hath hanged the said Smith and Edward Beckler as
Rebells, and hath confiscated all the Estate of the foresaid
Clobery and Company and hath not only disposed and carried
away both the estate and servants of the said Jointstocke, but
alsoe other goods Tobacco servants and Cattle, belonging to
the particuler Estate of the said Claborne, But what the par-
ticuler Estate of the said Claiborne was then worth this depo-
nent knoweth not how certainely to sett downe but beleiveth
the goods and servants being 16 in number viz^t Thomas Yoall,
Robert Cooper Robert Lake, John Glantam John Russell
William Tawbott William Jackson Thomas Kidd Nicholas
Pawlhampton Edward Hall Mathew Preist Richard Raymond
Richard Smith William Freemen William Jones and Edward
Griffin, as alsoe with the said Tobacco was worth threescore
Thousand Weight of Tobacco and Tobacco was then worth 3^d
per pound att least, And for the valew of all the said Cattle
that the said Governor hath killed taken and disposed of are
or might have beene by this time with theire encrease as this
deponent beleeveth to the number of 200 head or more, and
worth att least 6 or 7^£ a head one with another there being noe
other Cattle on the said Hand att that time, and this deponent
and many other would willingly have given as much or more
for everie of the said Cattle one with another And further
deposeth not.
Ric: Tomson
Recognit coram me
Jurat: et examinat: in presencia mei,
et per me Will: Baulke notarii
Francis Wiat publicum.
Sam: Mathews John Harvey.