446 Courl and Testamentary Business, 1656.

     Liber B. Jane Whitten aged 22 years or thereabouts Sworne an

      No. 3.  Examined Saith. That this Deponent was desireous to Come

              to this Countrey and did agree with Capt William Mitchell for

              her Transportacon to Serve the Said Capt Mitchells Children

              in Maryland and that the Said Capt Mitchell. promised her that

              She Should not be Sold to any body otherwise your deponent

              had not Come to this Countrey And further Saith not.

                            The mark of

                           Jane x Whitten

                Know all men by these presents that I William Johnson of

              the Province of Maryland have Constituted Authorized deputed

              and appointed and by these prsents doe Constitute authorize

              depute & Appoint my welibeloved Brother James Langworth

              of the Province of Maryland gent my true and Lawfull Attorney

              to all Intents and purposes in all Busienesses Relateing either

              to me or aiiy Estate of mine or any Estate any wayes belonging

              to me within the Province of Maryland or Virginia hereby

              Ratifying and Confirming whatsoever my Said Attorney Shall

              doe in the premisses as fully to all Intents and purposes as if

              the Same had been done by my Self In Wittness hereof I have

              hereunto Sett my hand this Ninth of Aprill 1656.

              Signed and delivered in the   William Johnson

              presence of Robert Clarke

                       Thomas Simpson

   p. 185    To   Richard Preston in Putuxent March 29th 1656

              Sr

                This May inform you that mr Cranneg hath Shipped aboard

              Tobacco by which he hath ingaged to pay for yor use the

              Sume of Thirteen pounds and Tenne Shilling as Wittness my

              hand.

                                            Samuell Groome

           p. 186 Know all men by these presents that I Michael Brooke of

              Putuxent doe owe and Stand Indebted unto William Batten of

              the Same place, the sume of Three Thousand Eighty three

              pounds of Good and Merchantable Tobaccoe and Caske to be

              paid in Putuxent at or upon the tenth of November next,

              which Bond is for Tobaccoes paid for Coniers use unto Sirnoii

              Richeson at Wicocomoco as Wittness my hand this 27th of

              Aprill 1656.                    Mich: Brooke

                And for the true performance hereof I the Said Brooke doe

              bind over unto the Said Batten two Bills of George Newmans

              Containing one Thousand nine hundred ninety Eight pounds

              of Tobacco and two Bills of Thomas Seamors of nine hundred