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466Court and Testamentary Business, 1656.
Liber B. piece of the Swallow fork is quite gone away, My Son will No. 3 depose that a yeare after the Cow was driven out of the neck
She Came thither again to Calfe and then that piece was hanging at the Eare of the Cowe.
Luke Gardnor Sworn and Examined Saith that to the best of your Deponents Iudgment the Cowe that mr Gerrard Shewed your Deponent, is not directly of the Same mark that the rest of the Cattle that mr Gerrard & his Son & Slye Shewed yor Depont And further Saith not. Luke Gardnor
Walter Pake Sworne and Examined Saith, That yor De- ponent Comeing from the Court to Capt Mitchells house, your Deponent found mr ffrancis Brooke lying with his head in his wifes Lap very Sicke and yor depont asked the Said Brooke how he did, and he told your Depont that he having the flux, thought that Capt Mitchell would be the Death of him, in forceing of him to go to Court to Sue for the wages due for 216 his wifes Service, Notwithstanding he either had or was to pay him two Cowes for the Remainder of the time his wife had to Serve, And further Saith not Walter Pake
p. That when mr Potts and mr Standly Choosed mr Brookes and my Self to be Arbitrators, to the difference depending between mr Potts and the aforesaid Standly, it was found by the Arbitrators that Standley had received the Chattle, and marked the Calfes of his own marke and likewise the Said Standley, did put in the milke of the Said Cowes to mr Pott towards his dyett, onely mr Potts was hound by the Arbitrators to transport the Chattle of the Said Standleys with all Con- venient Speed upon the plantation of the Said Standleys, the Arbitrators did likewise find that a bull Calfe that was dead formerly belonging to the aforesaid Chattle did properly belong to mr Standley, and that mr Potts was to have of Standley for the Transport of the aforesaid Chattle two hun- dred weight of Tobacco and this we are able to declare upon our Oaths James Langworth the mark of ffrancis Brooke
p. 220 At a Provinciall Court held at Putuxent the 20th of October 1656 mr Mich: Drouke Present Mr Richard Preston mr John Pott mr Woodman Stockley mr Wm Parrott
Whereas George Mee demandeth a debt of 2401 of Tobacco and Caske out of the Estate of Capt John Barriffe deceased
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