Provincial Court Proceedings, 1661. 565

tyme this depon^t sayth that she heard her brother in Lawe discoursing
with M^rs Piles aboute her husbands takeing the plantacon againe,
and that vpon that discourse her Brother in Lawe did press hard to
haue, for the Childs vse the halfe of such proffitts as M^r Piles should
make by selling the Plantacon againe He selling itt for more then the
Eight thousand pounds of tobacco which was his due by Condicon
And this depon^t heard M^rs Piles replye that his demand vnconscion-
[able] for these reasons, that the plantacon mought run to Rujne and
lye long vpon their hands and .... husband wanted pay no sayth she
our full due and my husband shall bate yo^u five hundred pounds of
tobacco of the debt, many more words did pass Betweene them two
to this or the like purpose this depon^t remembers whereby her brother
in Lawe stiffly urged her for the takeing the plantacon and M^rs Piles
as earnestly pressed for the Tobacco, farther this depon^t sayth that
she remembers that on a certaine tyme which tyme this depon^t can-
not certainly call to minde at this depon^ts now dwelling howse where
her Brother in Lawe then lived that M^rs Piles did earnest urge M^r

Langworth to tell her whether there were any thing else to be done

aboute the plantacon that noe future Controversyes might arise, and
that her Brother in Lawe did make answere that the plantacon was
her husbands and he might doe with itt as he pleased And farther this
depon^t sayth not Emma Turner
Sworne before me Tho: Turner.
The Deposicon of Robert Cole aged thirty foure yeares or there-
abouts being Sworne and Examined Sayth That Comeing over Wic-
cocomaco Riuer from Cap^t Fendall's to M^r Robert Slyes howse when
they tooke the Indian Prisoner at Choptico in company with Cott W^m
Evans and .... with severall others they there accidentally ....... M^r

Liber
P. C. R.

Langworth fell .... he ought to haue Entred upon itt by just Course
att Lawe, and that by way of Extent, But what M^rs Pilles replyecl to
this allegacon of M^r Langworth this depon^t remembers not but they
talked hard and lowd and further sayth not Robert Cole
Jurat coram me Luke Gardner.
This bill bindeth me John Greenwell my heires Executors Adm^rs
and Assigns to pay or cause to be payd vnto John Pille his heires
Executors Administrato^rs or Assigns the full and just Sume of Eight
thousand pounds of good sound merchantable Tobacco, and Caske
to be payd att some Convenient place in New Towne att three severall
paym^ts as followeth the first paym^t this p^rsent yeare att or before the
tenth of November next ensueing the date hereof seaventeene hun-
dred seaventy nine pounds and three thousand seaven hundred
twenty and one pounds of tobacco on the tenth of November next
following which will be in the yeare 1657 and five and twenty hun-
dred pounds of tobacco on the tenth day of November which will be
in the yeare 1658 and for the true performance and for the further
& better secureing of the said John Pille of each and all the afore-

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