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        Liber B.   upon in this Deponents presence pay the Said Ann Boulton

              Seven pounds in part of half a yeares wages and it was then

              also further agreed between the Said parties that in Case the

              Said Ann Should not like the Countrey of Maryland he the

              Said Capt Mitchell Should Send her for England at his own

              Costs and Charges, and if She the Said Ann did like to remaine

              in Maryland and not in his Service She was to be at her own

              Liberty, and to pay her for the time She Served him according

              to the Said rate of twenty pounds by the year

        Sworne the first day of december 1653 Edw: Eltonhead

                                            Sheffield Stubbs

                Elizabeth Bolton of the parish of St Martins in the ffields in

              the County of Middlesex widdow aged about fifty Years maketh

              oath that She was present when Capt Willm Mitchell hired her

              Daughter Ann Bolton to be his Servant and to goe with him

              unto Maryland, And it was then agreed between the Said Capt

              Mitchell and the Said Ann Boulton that She Should be Gov-

              erness of his Children and family and that the Said Cap'

              Mitchell Should give the Said Ann twenty pounds Sterling by

              the year for her wages for So Long time as She Should

              remaine his Servant and to pay it here in England or in Mary-

              land either in Money or Goods at the best rate as She the Said

              Ann Should Chuse, And he the Said Capt Wm Mitchell did

              thereupon in this Deponts presence pay the Said Ann Boulton

              Seven pounds in part of half a yeares wages, And it was then

              also agreed between the Said parties that in Case the Said

              Ann Should not like the Countrey of Maryland he the Said

              Cap' Mitchell Should Send her againe for England at his own

        p. 605     pper Costs and Charges, and if She the Said Ann did Like to

              remaine in Maryland and not in his Service She was to be at

              her own Liberty, and he to pay her for the time She Served

              him according to the rate of twenty pounds by the year

              Elizabeth Boulton Edward Eltonhead Sheffield Stubbs

              her E B Marke

              Coii ffrancis Yardiey plt Capt Richard Upon reading of an Order of

              Husbands p Edwd Packer Attorn deft the 22th day of November 1652

              made in this Cause and of the pltes Accompt upon Record fol

              88. by which there remains due from the defendant to the

              plantiff 1347 l Tob: & Caske, And the plfe now Making oath

              in open Court that the Said thirteene hundred forty and Seven

              pounds of Tobacco and Caske is Justly and truely due to him

              from the defendant Capt Husbands, It is thereupon Ordered

              that payment be made thereof to the pite with Court Charges.