Court and Testamentary Business, 1654. 371

               The Deposition of John Wheatley aged about 49ty Liber B.

               yeares Sworne & Examined this 18th day of Aprill

               Anno Dni 1654 Saith.

         That about twelve years Since this Deponent and one

       Thomas Harrison Came together in the Same Ship into this

       Province with Thomas Cornwallies Esq out of England he the

       Said Harrison being Covenant or Apprentice Servant to the

       Said Capt Cornwallies at his arrivall here in this Province of

       Maryland and upon the Voyage professed himself to be a

       Cooper, but after his arrivall here did not appeare So to be for

       ought this Deponent Ever heard, And that for the first year he

       was hired out to one Randoll Revell a Cooper and at the Expira-

       tion of that year returned to the Said Capt Cornwallies Ser-

       vice, where he remained till he the Said Capt Cornwallis

       returned for England, and was by him left in the Charge and

       Custody of mr Cuthbt ffenwick together with the rest of his

       Servants, where he remained untill the arrivall of Richard

       Ingle Marriner in this Province in or about ffebruary Ao 1644

       at or about which time the Said Harrison (as appeared) de-

       parted from the Said Capt Cornwallies his Service and was

       Entertained by the Said Ingle aboard his Ship, this Depont

       being then and there detained as prisoner, And this Deponent

       hath been Credibly informed that the Said Harrison did loyne p. 582

       With the Said Ingle and his Complices in the plundering of

       his Said Masters house, And this Deponent further Saith that

       he Never knew nor heard that the Said Harrison ever after

       returned to the Said Capt Cornwallyes his Service, or Ever

       after offered his Service either to him the Said Capt Cornwallis

       or to the Said mr Cuthbert ffenwick his Attorney, neither did

       he this deponent ever know or heard that the Said Capt Corn-

       wallyes or mr ffenwick ever gave him the Said Harrison any

       leave to depart from his Said Service, This Deponent at the

       time of the Said plunder and before living at the Said Capt

       Cornwallyes his house, being then or before his Covenant Ser-

       vant, And this Depont believeth that the Said Harrison upon

       his first arrivall here was to be Servant to the Said Capt Corn-

       wallis for the term of five Years for that not long after his the

       Said Capt Corn wallis Said Departure for England, the Said

       Harrison in this Deponts hearing Seemed to be much troubled

       for that (as he Said) the Said mr ffenwick had told him that he

       Came in a Servant for five years, when he thought that his

       time had been but for four Years, All which herein before

       Expressed or the Same in Effect this Depont averreth upon his

       oath to be true, And further Saith Not.

         Jurat die & Anno Supra dict Coram Nob: William Stone

                                      Tho:     Hatton