176 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1761-1769.

Lib. J. R.
& U. S.

Wife, left his Cousin Peter Bainbridge as he said a Power of
Attorney to Rent and dispose of her Lands and Tenements as
he seed Cause, and a short time after Armit went away, the
said Bainbridge was at this Affirmers House and told him and
his Wife that Armit was gone to the West Indies and that he
had a Power of Attorney from Armit to Rent her Lands and
Tenements and that she should have nothing from him to live
upon and that her Step Father was not able to maintain her
and that she should not live with him her said Uncle and when
she was low enough that then he wou'd send a Letter for
Armit and that he would come and then buy all her Lands
and Tenements and that she would be glad to go with him
any where.
Affirmed to before Yost Blickenstaff .
W^m Luckett.

The Deposition of Mary Ann Christy Abigail Armit Taken
before me the Subscriber One of his Lordships. That whereas
this Deponent was in Possession of some Land in said County
and a House and a half Lott in Frederick Town, and as this
Deponents Uncle Cap^t Peter Bainbridge, had a Cousin as he
said that came from Philadelphia, One Samuel Armit, whom
said Bainbridge Reported was worth some Thousand Pounds
and by her Uncles recommendation of him and her Uncles Ad-
vice and Persuasion to her and her Mother this Deponent
Married said Armit and remained some time in her Uncles
House, and as her Husband against her Inclination wanted
to sell the said Land and upon her being unwilling her Uncle
told that she must and shall make it over and told her if she
would not that he would buy said Land and keep her out of it
as long as her Husband lived and to the best of her Remem-
brance he said that he would Cut down the Timber off said
Land and the said Deponents Husband did sell a small Quan-
tity of said Land and through Persuasions &c she Consented
to sign an Obligation Bond with her Husband, and he made
away with the Price of it and now he has gone and left her
she knows not where and did not give her a penny to support
her, and also left her in a bad State of Health and this Depo-
nent declares to be the best of her Knowledge.
Mary Ann Christy Abigail Armit.

Frederick County ss :
The Deposition of Jacob Sayler taken before me the Sub-
scriber One of his Lordship's Justices of the Peace for said
County this day of 1766. That Whereas a
Certain Yost Leezer Jun. Warranted this Deponent for Ten