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and labour of servants, transporting of Tobacco, of Cattle,
many of which dyed there and yet the said Governor carried
away to this deponents best remembrance eight neat Cattle,
and kylled drove away and carried away sixtie hoggs, and
alsoe this deponent hath heard divers men say and the Gov-
ernor of Maryland confesse that the said Palmers Island is out
of the Lymetts of Maryland but that itt was given the Lord
Baltimore by the Kinge.
The marke of
William + Jones
Rich: Moryson.
Jurat: in presencia mei Will: Baulke notarii
publici et examinat per me dictum Will: Baulke.

Luce Purify de Kecoughtan in Virginia
aetatis 42. Annor. aut eo circiter natus infra Ranson in comitatis
Leicester
Testis in hac parte producta Jurata et examinata.

Ad 1 a. Dicit et deponit That she rememhreth that in Anno

1629. Capt: William Clayborne being then goeinge for Eng-
land, did deliver into the keepinge of her then husband Capt:
Thomas Purine a stocke of neate Cattle about the number of
12. belonging to Sir Thomas Gates deceased which Cattle
with all their encrease were about August in Anno 1631. by the
said Capt: Claybornes order carried upp to the Ile of Kent and
for the rate of Milke, this deponent remembreth that itt was
then sould for 12^d per gallon in mony And further saith that
the food for such Cattle is little or nothinge worth in Virginia
and that yf yt be not eaten rotteth and fadeth away or is burnt
yearely And further deposeth not.
The marke of
M^rc Luce + Purifie
Sam: Mathews
Tho. Willoughby Jurat: in presencia mei Will:
Chr. Wormely Baulke notarii publici et exam:
per me dictum Will: Baulke.

Anthoni Linny de Kecoughtan in Virginia aetatis 46. Annor.
aut eo circiter natus infra Disworth in Comitatu Lester Testis
in hac parte productus juratus et examinatus.

Ad 11. Dicit et deponit That as concerning the articulate
Account this deponent haveing perused the same beleiveth
that the disbursements therein set downe by the said Clayborne
duringe the time of this deponents aboad upon the said Island
as farr as they any way concerne this deponent or any of the
other Millwrights, Carpenters Sawiers or any of the servants

P. R. O.

Colonial
Papers.