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court and Testamentary Business, 1654.405
Court. It is therefore Ordered that mr Phillip Conniers Corn- Liber B. mander of the Ile of Kent Shall Cause the Said Sheriffe to give the Said Iluie quiett possession of the Said Land. It is Likewise ordered that those that dispossest the Said Iluie Shall pay Cost of Suit.
The Sheriffe is to produce the body of Marke Pheboe to the p. 631 next Court to Answer the Complaint of mr Beard in an Acon of Debt or else the Sheriffe to make Satisfaction to the Said mr Beard.
Refference of Suit is Granted unto Thomas Bennett deft in a Suit depending between the Said defendt and Walter Peake to the next Provinciall Court houlden at Putuxent.
It is the Judgment of the Court in regard that, that John Tennis and his wife did not performe the agreemt made with Johnson to Satisfie his damage occasioned by the Said John Tennis wife being then Servant to mr Johnson. It is ordered that John Tennis Shall pay to mr Johnson three hundred and fifty pounds of Tobacco and Caske, to be paid in the year 1655 with Cost of Suit.
Peter Joy aged twentie Sixe yeares or thereabouts Sworne Saith, That mr Harnbleton Came to Samuell Griffins and told your Deponent that he had bought two hundred acres of Land of mr Phenwicke at the head of St Cutbeards Creeke and going along with the Said Hambleton in a Canoe the Said Hambleton would have agreed with your Depont for to build him a house of thirty foot Long with a Shed at the End, and when your Deponent was frameing a house at mr Phenwicke, mr Hambleton proferred to Change his two hundred acres of Land for your Deponents hundred Acres and your Deponent would not, and further Saith not
Cornelius Cannady aged thirty yeares or thereabouts Sworne Saith, That your deponent asked mr Hambleton whether he had bought any land of mr Phenwick and he Said yea, and your Deponent asked him whether he had paid for it this yeare and he Said noe but mr Hambleton Said that nf Phen- wick owed him Seven or Eight hundred pounds of Tobacco, and for the rest he thought he Should worke it out in the 632 house and further Sayth not.
ffriendship Tounge aged twentie Sixe yeares Sworne Saith That your deponent went with in Phenwicke and rnr Ham-
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