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        Nonsuit is Granted to mrs ffenwick defendt against   Liber B.

      Capt Mitchell plft & allowed for 3 days attendance 0060 No. 3.

        Whereas Cuthbert ffenwick Gent is Indebted unto Skipper

      Jacob Derrickson by Specialtie the Sume of Seven hundred

      pounds of Tobacco & Caske and twenty five pounds of

      Tobacco due more by Account, It is ordered that mrs ffenwick

      Administratrix of the Said me ffenwick deceased Shall pay the

      Said debt to mr Iohn Hatch Attorney of Skipper Jacob Der-

      rick son

       At a Count held at Putuxent for the Province of

                Maryland the 17th of June 1656

               mr Richard Preston   mr Michael Brooke

  Present mr Iohn Hatch        me Woodman Stockley

               mr William Parrott

        Administration is Granted to Agnus Norman on the Estate

      of Iohn Norman deceased.

        Whereas Robert Taylor hath presented to this Court a Ser-

      vant Named Thomas Holland which he the Said Tailor bought

      of me Thomas Bennett Mercht for the terme of Six yeares and

      the Said Holland alledging that he Came in but for four yeares

      and that he is twentie yeares old, It is ordered that if the Said

      Holland do not produce Testimony from him that Sent him in

      and Likewise Sufficient Testimony from under a Magistrats

      hand that he is Twenty Years old within the 4 years then to

      Serve the other two year to the Said Robert Taylor according P 194

      to Act of Assembly for that purpose.

        Whereas at a Court held at Putuxent the 10th of apll 1656

      Capt William Mitchell having Commenced agst James Lang

      worth & a Servant maid in the Possession of the Said Lang

      worth bought of Will. Johnson, which the Said Mitchell pre-

      tends Some Claime unto, and the Said Langworth desireing

      a Reffenrence to this Court, which upon Good Grounds was

      Granted and the Said Mitchell pretending his great want he

      was in at that present of the Said Maid to look to his ifamily

      and Children, The Said Langworth at the request of the Court

      was willing to forgoe his Said Servant untill this Court upon

      which the Said Mitchell did promise to give Three thousand

      pounds of Tob Bond not to dispose of the Said Servant, which

      being not performed nor the Sd Mitchell neither by himself nor

      Attorney appearing, And the Said Langworth Petitioning to

      be Repossest of his Said Servant It is therefore ordered that

      the Said Servant Shall Remaine in the possession of the Said