Provincial Court Proceedings, 1660. 395

Subp^a ad testificand Mary Kirke the wife of Martyn Kirke, Vin-
cent Achison W^m Harper & .... in the foresaid Cause.

Liber
P. C. R.

Idem George Harris demands a writt agt William Harper in an
action of debt of 700^l Tob and Caske
Warrant inde to the Sherriffe of S^t Maryes County retorn vt
supra
Subp^a agt Vincent Achison in diet Causa.

Harris v.
Harper

William Hughes Carpinder came this day being the 16^th of Jan-
uary and demanded the Ensuing Examinations to be entred on
Record vizt Captaine Robert Vaughan aged Sixty two yeares or
thereabouts sworne examined saith, Aprill 27^th 1659
That Somtyme about July being at Saint Maryes in Captaine Wil-
liam Stone Esquires howse was present when there was a falling out
betwixt the said Captaine Stone, and one William that came out of
New England, and by their discourse this Deponent did perceiue the
difference betwixt them did arise about the foresaid Williams deny-
ing to grind upon Sarieant Maior Gibbons his Mill, which the said
William had sett up at Saint Maryes, and had allmost .... then said

Hughes v.
Stone

at that time, but after many words vsed by either party, this deponent
did heare the foresaid Captaine Stone promise the foresaid William
to see him paid for his labour, if that he would finish her, and sett
her to worke, but at that tyme the said William seemed to be very
vnwilling to haue any thing to doe with her after he had finisht her,
But the next day through this deponents perswasions and M^r
Mathew Stones, hee did make a promise to the foresaid Captaine
Stone to finish the Mill, and likewise to do his best in any thing that
did belong vnto her relying on Captaine Stone for satisfaction for
his Labour and paines therein Signed Robert Vaughan
Jurat Coram me Phill Conner.

March 14^th Anno 1658

John Buttery aged fforty Six yeares or thereabouts sworne and
examined, Saith that when the wind Mill now standing at Saint
Maryes Came in Captaine Stone then Gouernor of this Province of
Maryland sent a noate vnto this deponent by which note this depon-
ent was Certified that Maior Gibbins belonging vnto New England
had sent in vnto the aforesaid Captaine Stone a Mill, and the said
Captaine Stone by noate Certifyed this deponent that he knew not
where to sett the said Mill before this deponent came vnto him and
this deponent coming vnto the aforesaid Captaine Stone was by
him desired to looke to the Mill which this deponent did, but hauing
kep her not past a weeke this deponent and the abouenamed Captaine

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