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and did there by vertue of the foresaid letter of Atturney (to
this depone.nt's owne knowledge) take and had full possession
and Command of all the Plantations, houses, goods Mills
servants and whatsoever else belonged to the said Jointstocke,
in the said Plantation, without any hindrance or interruption
from this deponent William Blizard, or any other in the said
Claiborne's right (to this deponent's knowledge) And that the
said Evelin did appoint divers of the servants to make Pipe-
staves, and other worke as is articulate, and that the said
Evelin did transport and carry to Maryland John Ascu Edmund
Deering Andrew Baker, William Williamson and his wife,
John Hatch, Phillipp West, John Dandy, John Hobson, and did
(as this deponent hath heard) imploy and sett them to worke
upon a Plantation there, And further deposeth not.
Ad 27. dicit et deponit That the said Evelin by vertue of
the foresaid letter of Atturney from the said Clobery and
Murhead hath soe taken into his power and possession as
aforesaid, and hath sold and mad© away with part of the
householdstuffe, truckingstuffe and other goods to the Inhabit-
ants and Freemen on the said Plantation, and hath transported
other part thereof to Maryland and to Virginia, and there sold
and disposed of Kettles, Tradeing Cloath and other things as
is articulate But the valew of the said goods soe sold and dis-
posed of by him the said Evelin, this deponent cannot certainely
sett downe And further deposeth not.
Ad 28. Dicit et deponit That the said Evelin delivered the
Governor of Maryland severall peeces of Dutch trading Cloath
and other truckingstuffe, but how many peeces or how much
Trucke or what he the said Evelin hath received therefore this
deponent knoweth not and further deposeth not.
Ad 29. dicit et deponit, That (to this deponent's owne
knowledge) the said Evelin did soone after the departure of
the said Claiborne for England, goe severall times to Maryland,
and did there (as this deponent beleiveth) invite and persuade
the Governor of Maryland to come with armed men, and take
possession of the said Plantation and Ile of Kent, Because the
said Governor of Maryland did tell this deponent he had not
soe soone come to possesse the said Ile of Kent if the said
Evelin had not much urged him thereunto And further
deposeth not.
Ad 30. Dicit et deponit, That the said Evelin in or about
November 1637 : came upp to the said Plantation from Mary-
land, and to this deponent's owne knowledge, brought a
Commission under the Colony Seale of Maryland by vertue
whereof he the said Evelin was made Commander of the said
Ile of Kent And by vertue of the said Commission summon
the Inhabitants and freemen on the said Plantation to appeare
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