288Court and Testamentary Business, 1653.

         Liber B. mr Catchmey made Answer and Said he was to give Robert

              Taylor Content And further Sayth not      the mark of

              Sworne before me this 7th ofPeter PI Johnson

              may 1653 Ri: Preston

                Cornelius Abraham Sayeth that in or about January last

              goeing Down with his Sloop to Virginia overtook one Geo:

              Catchmey about Cedar point at Putuxent Rivers Mouth in a

              Small boat who desired me that I would take him into my

              Sloop and Carry him to Virga which I did, And falling into

              Some discourse Concerning Robert Taylor, about a Child

              his the Said Taylors wife had lately been brought a bed

              withall, which was reported She had laid to the Said Catch-

              mey, the Said Catchmey told me that the Said Taylor

              Carryed him to his house late one Night and Carried him

              in and Shutt the Door, which as Soon as he done, the Said

              Taylors wife rose of a bed and brought a child and Gave it to

              the Said Catchmey Saying here take yor Child wch he refused

               to doe denying that it was his Whereupon Some body in the

          p.  house Said how can you forbeare Stabbing of him to the heart,

              and the Said Taylor tooke a Gunn off where it hung which

              put the Said Catchmey as he Said in a Great feare whereupon

              he Carryed the Child to the mother and told her if it be my

              child then it is yors as well as mine, and at that time there being

              Some of the Servants in the next room Robert Taylor Com-

              manded them to goe forth, and after they were gone forth the

              Said Taylor told the Said Catchmey that he would goe to law

              with him, the next day the thing being urged again to the Said

              Catchmey (as he Said, the Said Catchmey told him that if To-

              bacco would Satisfie he did not care) Afterwards the Said

              Catch mey told this Deponent after Robert Taylor came downe

              to Virginia that the Said Taylor desired him the Said Catch-

              iney that he would be friends with him concerning the child his

              wife Laid to him.

              Sworne before me this 6th Aprill 1653

                                                Ri:   Preston

                William Phillips aged 1 9 years or thereabouts Sworne and

              Examined Sayeth, That Sarah Goulson Said to mrs Johnson

              you will burn your Glove by and by, noe, noe Said mrs Johnson,

              Soc Said mrs Johnson I Shall burn it indeed, And mrs Johnson

              Said that mr Osborne had Sent to New England for a pair for

              her, And mrs Johnson Said to Mary Taylor, I do Expect a pair

              of Gloves of you or Catchmey, And Mary Taylor made Answer

              againe why of Catchmey, And mrs Johnson replyed againe,

              that the father of the Child use to pay Midwifs ffees, And Mary