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         Liber B.   take it, and Said this Deponent Should have the bed again

              afterwards asked mrs Hooper for the bed, and She promised

              that mr Johnson Should have it and that mr Johnson Sent this

              Deponent to mrs Hoopers for the bed, hut She denied it

                Whereas mrs Hooper tooke a bed with a Servant which

              belonged to a Servant Sold by mr Meese to Peter Johnson and

              the Said mr Meese (as appears) declared his mind was that the

              Same bed which mrs Hooper tooke Should be returned to

              the Said Peter Johnson, which being demanded of mrs Hooper

              and refused, it is Ordered that Henry Hooper Shall deliver

              to the Said Peter Johnson one bed as good as was taken away

              or Satisfaction

                Bartholomew Herring Nonsuit Phillip Hyde And is allowed

              fifty pounds of Tobacco Charge

         p. 630 mr Skippwith having arrested Richard Ricknell and the Said

              Skipwith not appearing to declare Ricknell recovers fifty

              pounds of Tobacco for his Charges

                Capt John Smith having Exhibited to this Court an ingagemt

              of Cornelius A Johnson to him in one thousand pounds of

              Tobacco and Caske due by Specialty and five hundred pounds

              of Tobacco & Caske to be paid the yeare following, and the

              Sd Cornelius A Johnson hath acknowledged the debt in Court.

              It is therefore Ordered that the Said Johnson being not a resi-

              dent in this place Shall be Committed to the Sheriffes Custody

              until he Shall Satisfie the Said debt to the Said John Smith

              or otherwise give him Security for the Same within ten clays

              with Cost of Suit.

                John Hammond hath appeared in Court and acknowledged

              a Judgment against himself for the payment of of fifteene hun-

              dred pounds of Tobacco and Caske to Capt John Smith In

              Case the Said Cornelius Johnson doth not performe the paymt

              of the like quantity according to an Order of this Court

                Action between Salter & Capt Vaughan is refferred to the

              Assembly to the fourth day or three dayes after by Consent in

              regard the Determination relats to one Gressam who hath been

              long absent and is to be present at the Assembly

                Whereas Isack Iluie being possessed of two hundred Acres

              of Land called beaver Neck was disturbed by meanes of ffrancis

              Brooke pretending a Grant from the Lord Baltemore and

              power from the Governour which doth not appeare to this