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generally reported) was ledd by the said Evelin, and that the
said Evelin came with the said Governor att the same tyme
and landed att the said Plantation, and that the said Governor
of Maryland tooke possession thereof and tooke this deponent
and Thomas Smith and carried them to Maryland where the
said Thomas Smith was condempned And the said Governor
of Maryland hath since the aforesaid tyme come uppon the
said Plantation with aboute 50 armed men as this deponent
beleiveth and hath wholy reduced the said Hand and the Inhab-
itants under the Government of Maryland and did hang the
said Smith and one Edward Beckler and did confiscate all the
estate of the said Clobery and Company and that the said
Governor of Maryland hath disposed and carried away not
only the goods and servants belonging to the said Jointstocke,
but alsoe other Cattle, servants Tobacco, Bookes and other
goods belonging to the particuler estate of the said Claiborne,
which were then of a great valew And further deposeth not.
Ad 35 dicit et deponit That he this deponent hath often
heard and verely beleiveth, that the said Evelin did persuade
the Governor of Maryland to goe to the Susquehanoes where
the said Claiborne had planted upon an Hand called Palmers
Hand scituate and lying (as this deponent hath heard Mr Hayes,
Mariner, say) in the Degrees of forty one, and thirty Minites of
Northerly latitude, whereupon as this deponent beleiveth, the
said Governor of Maryland comeing to the Fort and houses
there erected, did displant the same and killed divers hoggs
there and carried away from thence all the men and Neate
Cattle unto Maryland, with all the goods and household stuffe
there, belonging to the said Claiborne, and hath utterly ruined
and laid void the said Plantation, whereby the said Claiborne
is dampnified and hath lost (as this deponent beleiveth) the
valew of £ 1000 att least, And further deposeth not.
Ad 36 dicit et deponit That by the said Evelins evill dis-
posall of the goods and servants of the said Joint stocke, and
by his ill carriage and neglect in those affaires, and by the
reduceing of the said Plantations and Ile of Kent under the
Government of Maryland, The said Plantation is dampnified
as this deponent beleiveth att least £10,000 sterling. And that
if the said Evelin had managed his busines as he should have
done, the said Plantation and Trade would have yeilded fan
greater profitt to the said Jointstocke, And further deposeth
not.
Ad 37 Dicit et deponit, That the said Evelin (to this depo-
nent's owne knowledge) had an Invoice of all the goods, and
servants, and of all the estate belonging to the said Jointstocke
att the time of the departure of the said Claborne for England,
and that the said Evelin often shewed the said Invoice both in
Maryland and in Virginia, and further deposeth not.
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