232 Claiborne's Petition and

P. R. O.

Colonial
Papers.

Fort for their better security upon the said Hand, and further
saith that about the beginning of March following Anno 1637.
the Governor of Maryland sent thither M^r William Branthe,
Robert Vaughan, and Reynold Fleete to take possession of
the said Palmers Hand, this said Hand scituate and lying as
this depon^t hath heard by M^r John Hayes Marriner in the
degrees of 41. and 30. minutes or thereabouts of notherly
latitude And about the last of June next following the said
Governor came to the said Hand and carried away all the
servants, neate Cattle and Hoggs, with all truckingsrnffe, as
Axes, Hoes, Knives, Cloth, peake and roanoake and all the
householdstuffe, utensells whereby the said Hand was utterly
displanted but what the said Claiborne is thereby indamaged
(this deponent cannot certaynely tell but beleeveth that he
hath lost thereby at least £ 1000 specially in reguard of a greate
trade of beaver and other furrs which the said Claiborne might
have had with the mountayn Indians which live upon the lakes
of the river of Canada, this deponent further saith that he being
at the said Hand he received a letter from the said Governor
of Maryland bearing date the 19. of March 1637. wherein he
intimated unto this deponent That all the Land, servants, and
Cattle and other goods, belonging to Capt: Claiborne, and here-
tofore in M^r Thomas Smith's charge there weare then confiscated
to the Lord of that Province, wherefore the said Governor did
appoynt Serjeant Robert Vaughan with authority to take
charge of them and to dispose and imploy the servants there
as he should thinke most advantagious for the profitt of the
Lord of that Province and further this deponent saith not.
John Fullwood
Rich: Moryson
Will: Frith. Juratus in presencia mei Will:
Baulke notarii publici et exam:
per me dictum Will: Baulke.

Georgius Scouell de Virginia Mercator etatis 36 Annor. aut
eo circiter natus infra Insul: de Purback in Com Dorset gent
Testis in hac parte productus Jurat: et examinat:

Ad 3. Articulum Dicit et deponit That he this deponent
was with the articulate Claborne when the articulate Thomp-
son came down from London, for the dispatch of the articulate
shipp, and this deponent well remembreth, he this deponent
did then helpe make upp and write, the Accounts belonging to
the articulate Jointstocke, and that the said Thompson did
then knowe of certaine parcells of goods, which the said Clai-
borne then had in the said shipp, belonging to his owne par-
ticuler estate, and that this deponent heard the said Thompson