228 Claiborne's Petition and

P. R. O.

Colonial
Papers.

thereof tooke possession of severall Pinnaces, boates, and other
things belonging to the said Claiborne in partnershipp with
the said Clobery and Company. And further deposeth not.
John Harvey
Francis Wiat
Sam: Mathews Juratus in presencia mei Will:
Will: Frith Baulke notarii publici et exam:
per me dictum Will: Baulke.

Thomas Woodhouse de Smiths Fort in Virginia Millwright
etatis 32 Annor. aut eo circiter natus infra, •pochiam de Holden
in Com. Ebor—
Testis in hac parte productus Jurat et examinat.

Ad 11. Articulum Dicit et deponit That for the wages paid
by the articulate Claiborne to this deponent being Thirty nine
pounds Three shillings sterling he this deponent acknowl-
edgeth to have received of him the said Claiborne, and beleiveth
that the severall sommes mentioned, to be paid to Anthony
Linney John Bennett Richard Hobin William Ellins and
Richard Hill are true and soe paid to them by the said Clai-
borne, because he this deponent hath heard them say they
were all contented by the said Claborne, And further deposeth
not.
Ad 19. Dicit et deponit That he this deponent was one of the
Millwrights sent over as is articulate, and sayth that there were
noe Millstones then sent, but that there came soone after a
small paire of Welsh stones which were unserviceable, and not
used att all, Alsoe this deponent saith that the said Clobery and
Murhead in England gave unto the said Millrights, many
faire promises, and that they should gett a great deale besides
theire wages, for worke on the by, as much as theire wages
came to, But saith that he knoweth that because the said
Clobery and Murhead did not pay the Atturneys of the said
Millrights in England, theire wages according to condition,
viz^t Anthony Linney John Bennett and Richard Hobin, there-
upon when riewes came out of England thereof, the said
Linney being the principall workman said, his wife and children
were starved and dead by the said Clobery and Murheads
meanes and therefore he the said Linney and most or all the
said Millwrights did much hinder theire worke, and further
deposeth not.
The marke of

Thomas M Woodhouse
Francis Wiat.
Sam: Mathews. Juratus in presencia mei
Will: Frith. Will: Baulke notarii publici et
exam: per me dictum Will: Baulke.