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abouts 1637. being aboard the said Pinnace called the Elizabeth
in the Bay of Virginia, and being demanded by the said Clay-
borne, that both he the said Clayborne and the said Eveline,
might assigne, underwrite and deliver to each other the
Inventory of the estate of the said Clobery and Company men-
tioned in the former Article, (but the said Eveline) then in the
presence and hearing of this deponent and divers others
aboard the said Pinnace, utterly denied to doe the same or to
give any bond as aforesaid for the true confering of the said
estate, servants and Plantation according to a promise in the
end of a letter of Attorney made by the said Clobery and
Morehead to the said Eveline, which he the said Eveline then
first shewed to the said Clayborne in the presence and
hearing of this deponent and divers others at the same tyme,
all which with severall other particulers then done and acted
were then testified in a wrighting under the hands of this
deponent: John Butler, Robert Morrison and others and
further this deponent saith not.
Tho: Adams
Rich: Moryson. Jurat: in presencia mei Will: Baulke
Will: Frith. notarii publici et examinat: per me
dictum Will: Baulke.
Johannes Fullwood aliis Sande de Insul: Kant in provincia
de Maryland etatis 33. annor. aut eo circiter natus infra pochiam
de Hope in Com Herefordise
Testis in hac parte productus Jurat et examinat:
Ad 35. Articulum Dicit et deponit That he this deponent
haveing long lived with a nation of Indians called the Susque-
hannoes as an Interpreter for the articulate Capt: Claiborne,
doth remember, that the people and the king of die aforesaid
nation did often invite the said Claiborne to come which people
did plant upon the articulate Hand called Palmers Hand, And
that at leingth (to this deponents best remembrance) in the
month of Aprill or May Armo 1637. the said king of the Sus-
quehannoes called by the name of did come with a great
number of his Councellors and great Men and with all theire
consents did give to the said Claiborne the said Palmers Hand
with a greate deale of Land more of each side, the river and
the Bay as is specified in a wrighting then made and truely
interpreted by this deponent virbatim to the said King there-
uppon by him signed and in token and confirmation of his said
guift, the said king did cutt some trees upon the said Hand,
and did cause his people to cleare some ground for the said
Claiborne to plant his corne upon that yeare, After which the
said Claiborne did (by his servants) build houses and make a
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