104 Court and Testamentary Business, 1649—50.

        Liber B. The Deposition of Richard Gripwood planter aged about

              16 years Sworn and examined the last day of July 1651 Saith

                That he was a board the Vessell mentioned in the Deposition

              of Richard Pynner above written when the Boat therein men-

              coned was lost, and further Saith that the Boat, which John

              Merriday upon Monday last Shewed to the Said Pinner and

              this Deponent, menconed also in the Sd Pinner's deposition, is

              the Same Boat which was then lost from the Stern of the Said

              Vessell as aforesd wch boat this Deponent hath heard and verily

              believes was and is John Merriday's boat:

                Uterq Jurat die & anno Supradict coram me

                                           Tho:  Hatton Secr

                           To my honre friend Capt Willm Stone Govr

                           of Maryld

                           prsent These

              Good Sr

                I received your Letter by Mr Copley concerning the assur-

              ance to you of my house at St Maries which I did once Offer

              to Secure to you against all Just claymes, but at our last parting

              you cannot forget that I desired you to See in the the Record

              what right I had to it, and that I would advise with my brother

              before I would make any writeing to you I further told you that if

              my title were not good I would return the house into the Inven-

              tery, and would not intangle my Self in Maryland because of

              the Ld Baltemore's disaffections to me aRd the Instruccons he

              Sends agt us This Sr if please you to call to mind what past

              I know you will remember, Yet verily Sr I doe not refuse to

              make you Security for any doubt I have of my title, but because

              I know it will be more for the avoyding of trouble both to you

              and me to disinterest my Self in it I will at my comeing down

          p. 227   bring with me the Coppy of the Statute to Justifie my right to

              Mr Calverts Land, and I hope to have a tryall for them in your

              own Court, and Soe I shall make an end with you to your own

              content I beseech you Sr be pleased to dispose of those goqds

              I laid by because I have been forced to provide my Self by my

              brother in Virginia, Soe I Shall want the Tobacco to furnish

              ourselves with other things, Be pleased to prsent &c July

              22th 1650.

                                Yor humble Servt Margaret Brent

             To the Right worpll Cap. William Stone &c

                my brother is now Soe extreamly Sick that We have noe

              expectation of his life, Soe that I know not what trouble it may

              throw upon me or how inconvenient my comeing down to

              Maryland in June may be to me, I wd therefore desire you to