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and did there att Maryland, imploy and sett them to worke
upon a Plantation there, by which Plantation and other worke
done there by them, the said Evelin hath gained or might
have gained by the said servants labours att least 8000 weight
of Tobacco att least, and find themselves Cloathes, And further
deposeth not.
Ad 27. Articulum Dicit et deponit That the said Evelin did
by vertue of the said letter of Atturney, from the said Clobery
and Murhead, take into his power possession and disposition,
and hath disposed sold and made away with severall parcells
of the householdstuffe and other goods, And did att one time
transport and carry to Maryland (to this deponent's owne
knowledge, for he was imploied in the boat that brought them)
tenn Kettles, two setts of Wedges, a Crow of Iron, a fire shovell
and tongs, a greed Iron, a pestle, a great iron pott, knives, a
new grapnell, all att one time, And to this deponent's best
remembrance, he the said Evelin did att other times bring
thither, other part of the householdstuffe and other goods, but
the severall parcells he this deponent cannot well remember,
And that the said Evelin did (to this deponent's owne knowl-
edge) transport or cause to be transported to Virginia, divers
great Kettles, and Tenn Barrells of Corne, but the valew of
the said goods and Corne, soe sold and transported to Mary-
land and to Virginia as aforesaid, this deponent knoweth not,
and further deposeth not.
Ad 38 Dicit et deponit That he this deponent beleiveth that
the servants that are mentioned in the Articulate Accounts
which the said Claiborne brought upon the said Hand and
which were not sent by the said Clobery and Company, did as
much worke and labour for the use of the said Jointstocke on
the said Trade and Plantation, as any of the servants belonging
to the said Jointstocke upon the houses and grounds att the
Articulate Plantation called Craford; And that if the said
servants belonging to the said Jointstocke did helpe the said
servants belonging to the said Claiborne att Craford, in weading
of Corne, shipping of Tobacco or any other worke, the said
Claborne's servants att Craford, did as much or more worke
for the benefitt of the said Jointstocke in leiwe thereof And
further deposeth not.
signed Z Edmondi Deering
Rich: Moryson.
Obedience Robins Juratus et exam: in presencia
Will: Frith. mei, et per me Will: Baulke
notarium publicum.
Johannes Butler de Insul Kant in provincia de Maryland
gen etatis 39 Annor. aut eo circiter natus infra pochiam de
Roxswell in Com. Essex gen.
Testis in hac parte productus Juratus et examinatus.
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