238 Claiborne's Petition and

P. R. O.

Colonial
Papers.

and this deponent saith that for so many of the XI. servants
as could welbe spared from the trade the said Clayborne did
Joyne in copartnorship with one Alaxander Mountney and
John Smyth and their servants which were freemen and did
settle a Plantation called Craford and cleard ground and built
houses and as farr as this deponent could understand he verily
beleiveth that the said Claybornes owne particuler servants soe
planted at Craford aforesaid, did more worke and labour for
the use and benefitt of the said trade and Plantation then any
of the servants of the Joyntstocke did at that tyme upon the
house and ground at Craford in lieu thereof and further
deposeth not.

Ricardus Browne de Kecoughtan in Virginia aetatis 25
annor. aut eo circiter natus infra
in comitatu. testis in hac parte productus juratus et examinatus.

Ad 34. Dicit et deponit That this deponent living at Mary-
land at the tyme when the articulate Capt: George Evelin was
there and saith that the said Evelin did persuade the articulate
Governor of Maryland this deponent and many more to goe
to take the Isle of Kent and beleiveth that the said Evelin was
the cause that the said Governor of Maryland did goe to take
the said Isle, and that this deponent being unwilling to goe did
aleidg that he this deponent should loose by goeinge ioo^lbs of
Tobacco per weeke upon which the said Evelin replyed that
this deponents pillaidg their would be worth so much but how-
ever, yf he the said Evelin might have the said pellaidg he the
said Evelin would give this deponent for yt 100^lbs Tobacco per
week whereupon wittnes was taken thereof, After the voyage
was ended he this deponent did receive of the said Evelin
100^lbs of Tobacco and further this deponent saith not, savinge
that divers of the men that went the voyage beinge unwillinge
to goe, the said Evelin persuaded and incouraged them and
warranted them that their pilliadg should be worth to them
more then the losse of their tyme.
Richard Browne.
Rich: Moryson.
Jurat: in presencia mei Will:
Baulke notarii publici
et exam: per me dictum Will: Baulke.

William Leuermore Aliis Cox de Kecoughtan in Virginia
aetatis 28 Annor. aut eo cerciter natus infra Rumsey in Comitatu
Hamsheere testis in hac parte productus juratus et examinatus.

Ad 12. Dicit et deponit That he this deponent well remem-
breth that in Anno 1629 Capt: William Clayborne being then