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       parties to these presents have hereunto Set their hands the day Liber B.

       and year before written          Wm Mitchell

       Wittness Wm Eltonhead Richd

       Hodgskins John Henshawe

         Know all men by these presents that Wee William and

       Thomas Daynes of Virginia Merchants Doe hereby authorise

       Constitute and appoint our Loveing ffriend Henry Coursey

       our true and Lawfull Attorney for us and in our name to ask

       demand Recover and receive, All Such Tobacco's as Shall be

       due to us as Administrators to Mr Walter Coopers and Mrs

       Ann Cooper's Estate deceased by any party or parties to Sue

       and arrest implead and imprison and out of prison again to

       Release, and acquittance or acquittances or other discharges in

       our name to give make, and in our name upon receipt of Sat-

       isfaction of the aforesd debts, ffurther authorising and by these

       presents giveing unto our sd Attorney full power to execute

       and perform all Such, thing and things as Shall be expedient

       and necessary to be done in the pries as We our Selves were

       personally present, And what our sd Attorney Shall doe in the

       aforesd premises, We Willm & Thomas Daynes doe bind our-

       selves our heirs or Assignes to allow ratify and Confirm, Witt-

       ness our hands this third of November 1651

                                   Wm Daynes:

        In the presence of Cornelius LLoyd     Tho Daynes:

       wm Wells

         This Indenture made the first day of Janry Anno 1650, Be-

       tween Wm Stradder of the one party and Walter Cooper Gent

       on the other party Wittnesseth that the Sd Wifim Stradder

       doth hereby Covenant with the Sd Walter Cooper his Extors

       or Assignes to Serve him the Just and full terme of two years

       and Nine Months in the Barbadoes or Virginea next ensueing

       the date hereof. In Consideracon whereof the Said Walter

       Cooper doth hereby Covenant and grant to and with the Said

       William Stradder to pay for his passage and to find and allow

       him meat drink and apparell & lodgeing with other necessarys

       during the Sd term and at the end or expiracon of the Said

       term to pay or Cause to be paid to the Sd Wm Twenty pounds

       Sterling or the Value thereof in that Countrey's Commodity p. 251

       at the prices Current, In Wittness whereof the parties above

       menconed to these Indentures have Interchangably Set their

       hands and Seals the day and year above Written

       Sealed and delivered in the) The mark of W Wm Strader

       prsence of Joseph Manning

       Abraham Pope