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       Morning, this Depont being in the yard with an Indian did See Liber B.

       the Said Susan go up into a loft, where the Said Nevill lay, No. 3.

       and hearing a busling in the Loft where the Said Nevill lay,

       the Indian went up the Lather, and looked into the Loft, and

       the Indian Comeing clown, did becken to this Depont to go up

       the Lather, and Spake in Indian, and Said Nevill & Susan was

       at Sack a Sacke, upon which this Deponent Saith he went up

       the Lather, and looked into the loft, and See the Said Nevill

       upon the Said Susan, upon the bed, with his Cloathes all off,

       but his Shirt, Whereupon this Deponent told his Dame, And

       his Dame did ask the Said Susan, what She did there, who

       replycol, She went to Carry Iohn a Pipe of Tobacco.

         And farther this Deponent Sayth that this last winter being

       a Sleep upon a bed in the Chimney Corner, in the Night

       awaking, did Sec the Said John Nevill, anti the Said Susan

       lying upon the Ground before the fire, and the Said Nevill a

       top of the Said Susan, And this Deponent Speaking to the Said

       Susan about it the next Morning, and about her lying with the

       Said Nevill, he the Said Nevill threatned the Deponent, that he

       would whip him, before the yeare Came about, till the bloud

       Should follow, And farther this Deponent Saith not

                                   Signuin

       Jurat Coram me. Richard Preston    Thomas x Plott

         Mary Gillford Sworne and Examined in open Court Sayth

       that this last Crop, She did See Susan Attcheson and John

       Nevill together, and the Said Susan Attcheson's hand in his

       Breetches, and his the Said Nevills hand in her the Said

       Susan's Hackett, and farther Saith not     Signurn

                              Mary x Gillford

         Ann Dorrington aged 37 years or thereabout Sworne and

       Examined in open Court Saith, That when major Billingsly

       Came to your Deponents house, She did hear Thomas Seamer

       demand a bill of him which Major Billingsly acknowledged he

       had received for the Said Thomas Seamers wife, And farther

       Thomas as Seamer then Said, that his wife had no time to Serve,

       major Billingsly replied, that if you would give me four Thou-

       sand weight of Tobacco, though She had not an hour to Serve,

       Should not I take it, farther Major Billingsly did acknowledge P. 281

       that he had received one hogshead of Tobacco and Six hundred

       weight of Potatoes, and Some Corne, but how much this l)epo

       nent remembers not          Signum

                            Ann A Dorrington

       Wm Marshall plft Whereas Emperor Smith Standeth in-

       Emperor Smith deft debted unto Henry ffbx three hundred and