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       looke after the Same and Endeavour to improve or advantage Liber B.

       the Same by encrease Dairie or otherwise for both their profitts,

       Item that in Regard of this Necessary Separation and that the

       Said Sympson Shall peradventure live as a Sojourner or other- 8

       wise a part and Soc by consequence not in Capacity to Enter- p. 487

       taine his friends or acquaintance, It is concluded on that he

       Shall as he Shall fipd Occasion Send for provisions or have

       his freinds there and at the Said Peakes his house entertained

       and accommodated, Item that every party Give Notice if pos-

       sible to the other of any Bargaine made release or disposall of

       any thing that each other's advice or consent may be had

       therein, whereby they may be the better Enabled to consider

       thereof, And that this Condition or agreemt remaine and be in

       force untill either of them Shall acquitt or forsake the Countrey

       now Seated or hereafter to be Seated within the Capes of Ches-

       apeake Bay, or that the Said Sympson Marry, or with a mutuall

       friendly Consent on both Sides, and then an Equall Division

       of their Estate to be made, And for the better Managing of

       their affairs, that each give to the other under their hands and

       Scales, an irrevocable and unlimited Lre of Attorney to re-

       maine dureing their Copartnership, And lastly that if the wife

       of the Said Peakes happen to dye dureing this Copartnership

       that then it Shall and may be Law full for the Said Sympson to

       inhabit in the Same house or if She Shall goe for England or

       other Countrey dureing her absence. In Wittness hereof the

       Said partys have hereunto Interchangeably Sett their hands

       and Scales this 20th of Sept 1653.

       Signed Sealed and Delivered     Paule Sypson

       in the presence of

        John Hammond

        Richard x Ware

             his mark

        Know all men by these presents that I Paul Sympson have

       and doe hereby Constitute make and Ordaine my Loving

       freind Walter Peakes my true and Law full Attorney irrevocable

       in my Name and for my use to arrest Sue and Implead any

       manner of person or persons any way Indebted to me, or any 88

       with whom I have any Cause of Suit quarrell or differrence as

       alsoe to acquitt release and discharge any Such party or any

       other any way oblidged ordifferring with me as alsoe to appeare,

       answer and Defend me in any Court of Justice whatsoever or

       otherwise, and whatsoever my Said Attorney Shall doe by way

       of Composition Suite or otherwise either by himself or Sub-

       stitute, which I hereby Authorize him to Make 1 bind my Self

       hereby to ratifie, con firme, and allow of in as ample Manner as

       may or might be Expressed or as if my Self were personally