228 Court and Testamentary Business, 1649 50.

        Liber B.   to England being at the house where Capt Mitchell then and

              now liveth called St Thomas he the Said Capt Mitchell then

              and there in this Deponents presence and hearing appointed

              mrs Williams or Warren to lay aside those Goods which She

              claimed to be her ffathers and that he would Enquire of mrs

              Mitchell his wife concerning them, and upon his return from

              England he wquld deliver Such of them as he Should find by

              his wifes relacon did not belong to him the Said Mrs Williams

              or her father or to that Effect, and further Sayth not.

                                            Jurat

                Upon the motion of Thomas Ward Chirurgeon who hath

              Married the widdow and relict of Edward Commins deceased

              Shewing thereby that his Said wife in her widowhood Sold

              part of her land, by her lately Pattented, unto Joseph Weeks,

              who refuseth to perform the Bargaine, unless he may have a

              Grant for the Said Land from the lord Proprietary according

              to an Arbitration lately made, and a Survey by his Ldp's Sur-

              veyor Generall thereupon now produced, It was by this Court

          p. 400   discussed whether the Said Widdow could Sell the Said Land

              from her Children had by the Said Commins deceased, the

              rights upon the Grant being part of the Said decedents Estates,

              and the Grant being made to her and her heires the Said Court

              is of opinion that being a freehold She might make Sale

              thereof Lawfully, and doth order that the Said Sale be con-

              firmed and the Governour is desired to pass a Grant thereof

              under the Great Seale according to the Said Certificate of the

              Said Surveyor, and It is further ordered by the Said Wards

              consent that the Consideracon for which the Said land is Sold,

              be disposed of for the Maintenance and best benefitt of the

              Said Cummins Said Children,

                Capt Robert Vaughan maketh oath that upon demand of

              one hundred fifty and four pounds of Tobacco for the use of

              William Stone Esq Governor of this Province, by this Depont

              from William Jones late of the Isle of Kent deceased, the Said

              Jones acknowledged the Said debt to be due, which is not yet

              paid Soc farr as this Depont knoweth, And further Sayth not.

                             J urat this 24th January 1652 Coram me

                                              Tho Hatton

                          Memorand:    that the above last Deposition is

                          Crosst out in the Orriginall Record Booke

                Memorandum that I ffriendship Toung Attorny of Thomas

              Connerye doe assigne to Thomas Cornwallis Esq the Judgmt

              Granted this day by the Court against Edward Claxton at the