Court and Testamentary Business, 1653/4.351

        Whereas I Lawrence Starky of the Province of Maryland Liber B.

       Esq about the beginning of the last Spring for a Valuable

       Consideration then & Since by me received of mr Thomas

       Hatton Secretary of the Said Province, Sold and Delivered to

       the Said mr Hatton one heifer then about three years old of

       my own Marke being formerly mr Copleys wth a bull Calf by

       her Side Now both of them in the Said mr Hattons possession,

       Now this present writing Wittnesseth that I the Said Lawrence

       Starky doe hereby acknowledge ratifie and Confirm unto the

       Said mr Hatton his Executors, Administrators and Assigns for

       Ever the Sale and Delivery of the Said heifer and Calfe as

       aforesaid with Warranty against all Just Claimes, Wittness 6

       my hand this 24th day of Sept Anno Domini 1653. p 55

                                        Law:   Starky

       In the presence of

        Thomas Carpenter

             Richard ifoster Sworne & Examined 24th March 1653

             Sayth as followeth

        That he Cannot Depose whether Nathaniell Batts hath any

       Estate in his hands or Noe but the Said Batts told him that the

       truck which was here was the Coll and his and before it went

       out of his hands the Said Batts would See him Satisfied for his

       Labour, After the Coll aboard his Sloop desired this Deponent

       to be Carefull in the busieness, for the Truck was his fully and

       wholly Since the Coll hath Sent to him by mr Slys Bark to gett

       Corne ready for him and more Sayth not  The mark of

       Coram me                      Richard W Foster

        Thomas Gerrard

        This Bill bindeth me Thomas Ringe my heirs Executors and

       Administrators to pay or Cause to be paid unto John Taylor

       his heirs and assigns the full and Just Sume or quantity of

       Nine hundred Seventy and Eight pounds of Good Sound

       Tobacco in Caske at or upon the tenth day of November Next

       Ensueing and for the true performance of which paymt I doe

       hereby make and bind over unto the Said John taylor my

       Cropp wch I Shall plant this Year as alsoe what I shall make

       and gett by Smiths Work with my Smiths Tools or what else

       belonging to me at present or hereafter belonging and due to

       me till the abovesaid debt be fully paid to the Said John Taylor

       as abovesaid. Wittness my hand this 10th Aprill 1654.

       Testis                        the marke of

         William Britten            Thomas x Ringe

                       may the 16, 1652

        Know all men by these presents that I Richard Husbands

       of wappin in the County of Middlesex Mariner doe make