12        Provincial Court Proceedings, 1663.

             Liber B B  with shortnes of breath, & spitting of blood. Thereby is gathered tht
                   certaine & speedy Death is att hand, Wth followed on the 17th of the
                   sd instant. In wittnes whereof I haue hereunto sett my hand.

                                           Stephen Clifton Chyrurgeon.

                        March 150 1662.
                     Tobias Dunkin aged 32 yeares or thereabouts sworne sayth.
                     That this Depont went on shoare to the plantaon and asked whose
                   plantaon tht was? and a woeman told this Depont it was Patricke
                   Dues, & I further asked her, if it was not the plantaon tht was
                   Bromalls? & shee sayd yes it was, then I enquyred If there was not
                   some Tob of Mr Cookes? & the man sayd there was a hogshead, & I
                   enquyred also for James Veitch & John Addams their plantaons?
                   And he sayd tht James Veitch was on the other side the Creeke. Then
                   hee asked mee where I landed? And I told him in the Coue, where
                   the Canow was. Hee sayd There were Oysters in the Canow & did
                   hope the Seamen would not take them away. And I promised him,
                   when I gott downe, They should take none of them away. Soe I
                   went to roule the hogshead of Tob out of the Tobacco howse, And
                   in the interim the man went downe wth his Gun (as the woman told
                   mee, for I did not see him) And further hee sayd They might eate
                   oysters, soe they did not carry them away. And I promised him they
                   should not. And further sayth not. Tobias Dunkin.
                     Sworne before us John Bateman William T Turner.
                     Elias Chandler aged 22 yeares or thereabouts sworne Eodë die,
                   sayth
                     That hee this Depont came to the plantaon of Willm Bromall the
                   14th of this instant, And seeing a Canow wth oysters in it, went into
                   the Canow & eate some of them. And in the interim the Boy came
                   downe & rayled att us, asking of us what wee did doe there? And I
                   answered him tht wee were eating a few Oysters, Telling him wthall,
                   Hee need not bee soe angry for eating a few oysters, for they cost
                   him nothing. And the Boy replyed againe They cost him his labour,
                   for that hee had beene all the day in getting of them. Then I told
                   him Wee would pay him for them. In this interim came the man
                   downe wth his Two Doggs, swearing Damme mee you Dogges I
                   will kill you, If there bee noe more Sea Dogges in the world, & corn
                   ming closse to the Boate side, fyred his Gun amongst us, & wounded
                   one of our men, & mee in the Cheeke. Then afterwards hee putt his
                   hand to his pockett, & the mussle of his Gun in the other hand closse
                   to his pockett ailso & sett his Doggs uppon mee, & forced mee into
                   the water up to the middle & presented his Gun to mee & swoare you
                   Dogge, I will kill you, if there bee noe more men in the world. And
                   further sayth not             Elias EC Chandler.
                     Sworne before us John Bateman William T Turner