Provincial Court Proceedings, 1658. 191

Stone to cutt the negro downe, & hee refused to doe it, Will^m Hewes
allso bidding him lett him alone & w^th in lesse then halfe a howre
after the negro dyed, the wind comming up att northwest soone after
hee was soe tyed up, And hee was tyed up betweene three & fowre
o'Clock in the afternoone, & dyed about six or seauen, & was kept
till next morning before he was buried.
Vppon the reading this Examinaon (Hannah Littleworth being
present in Court) When shee came to that p^eticular Concerning the
tying of the negro up by the wrists (Viz) Whither hee stood uppon
the grownd Yea or Noe ? Shee declareth That now shee uery well
remembers That hee stood uppon the grownd.

Liber
P. C. R.

Will^m Hewes sworne in open Court Sayth That hee was p^ent, att
the time when M^r Ouerzee beate his negro, w^th the Twiggs, And th^t
hee saw him beate the negro, & saw him allso powre Lard uppon him,
& that as hee conceaues & remembers, he saw noe blood drawne of
the negro, And this Deponent being willing to help the negro from
the grownd, M^r Ouerzee hauing his knife in his hand, cutting the
twiggs, threatned him to runne his knife in him (or words to that
effect) if he molested him, And that the negro (as he thinks, but
cannot iustly say) stood uppon the grownd, And sayth further That
the negro did commonly use to runne away, & absent himselfe from
his M^r Ouerzees seruice.
The Gouerno^r requests the Councell, then p^ent, to declare their
Opinions, whither it was in the power of the Court to iudge this
busines now, Yea or noe ? M^r Ouerzee humbly requesting the Court
to end it, & th^t he may be acquitted, And uppon consideraon th^t M^r
Mathew Stone was allso p^ent as is declared whose Examinaon is not
yett taken, may euidence some things materiall in the busines, It is
agread by the Board, And Ordered th^t M^r Ouerzee putt in Bond of
One hund^d Thowsand pownds of Tob, to the L^d Proprietary for his
appearance att the next Prouinciall Court, & there to attend the finall
determinaon of the same.

p. 148

It is Ordered by the Board that Henry Moore haue the Indian
Naughnongis (he paying for him One Thowsand pownds of Tob)
to him the s^d Henry Moore his heyres & assignes for euer, W^ch
Tobaccho is to goe to the defraying the charge, & paying Edmund
Phillpott. as is mentioned in the former vesterdavs order, (Viz)

Attorney
General v.
Naugh-
nongis

To Edmund Phillpott

172^l

Tob.

To Humphrey Attwicks for dyett for himselfe
& the Indian

320

ffor himselfe att seuerall times imployed
24 dayes in the Countries Seruice

480

To M^r Bretton Clerke for his ffees

028

1000