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       which Shall happen at any time hereafter to be brought Com- Liber B.

       menced or prosecuted against her the Said Administratrix in

       any Court within this Province touching the Said Estate con-

       trary to the direction herein before Expressed. Given at St

       Maries under &c the 7th day of march Anno Dni 1652

                                me Tho: Hatton Secret

         Be it Knowne unto all men by these presents that Cap' George

       Evelin Esq doe acknowledge to have had and received of mrs

       Temperance Jay the Suffie of one hundred and twenty pounds

       of lawfull money of England, for the which mony I doe bind

       my Selfe my heires Executors or Assignes firmly by these

       presents to pay or cause to be paid unto the Said mrs Jay in

       Virginia Twenty pound Sterling p Ann, beginning Nine

       weeks before Michaelmas 1649 which twenty pounds is to be p. 405

       paid Every Yeare during her life, and because money is Scarce

       in Virginia I doe oblidge my Selfe to pay unto the Said mrs

       Jay, Soc much Goods as She Shall like of amounting to the

       Said Sume of twenty pounds Sterling, and that the Said money

       or Goods be paid at every half yeares end according to pro

       portion And if in case the Said mrs Jay Should dye within a

       yeares Space, then I the Said George Evelin doe promise to

       pay or cause to be paid, twenty pounds Sterling to Such per-

       son or persons as the Said mrs Jay Shall appoint me before her

       decease, Moreover if in case mrs Temperance Jay Should

       return into England within the Space of three yeares after her

       arrivall in Virginia, I doe bind my Self my heires Executors or

       Assignes to pay or Cause to be paid unto the Said mrs Jay,

       within three months after her arrivall in England the Said

       Suffle of one hundred and twenty pounds Sterling of Lawfull

       money of England. And in case of non payment I the Said

       George Evelin doe bind over to the Said mrs Jay a considerable

       quantity of Land in Greendall old ffort or middle plantacon

       amounting to the Said Sume of Twenty pounds Sterling p

       Ann. In Wittness hereof I have hereunto Sett my hand &

       Seale this 11th day of October 1649George Evelin

       Test Tho: Pott, Sam: Cooper           Seale

       John ffoxe

               This presents Wittnesseth that I Lieutenant Wil-

       11 Martij 11am Lewes in the Province of Maryland doe acknowl-

       edge to owe and be indebted unto Capt Wm Stone his heirs

       Executors or Assignes the full Some of five thousand three

       hundred thirty ne pounds of Good Tobacco in cask to be paid

       at or before the twentieth day of November next Ensueing the

       clay of the date hereof at niy now dwelling house Scituate in

       Portoback And for the better Security of the Said Judgment