306  Provincial Court Proceedings, 1664.






                Liber B B ffincher declared to the dutchman & the dutchman to us, and further
                      Saith not—                  William Gunnells thke
                 [p. 376] Lawrence Organ aged 35 yeares or thereabouts sworne In Court
                      deposeth as followeth
                       This Depont saw Joseph ffincher beate his serut wth his hand &
                      kickt him wth his feete and likewise saw the said ffinchers seruta
                      nostrills of his nose bloody in the house where he was dead & further
                      saith not               Lawrence L 0 Organs thke

                       Thomas Miles aged 45 yeares or thereabouts sworne in Court de
                      poseth as followeth
                       This Deponant being in the feud saw Joseph ffincher loading of
                      plants upon his man he being not able to carry them fell downe plants
                      and all, and Joseph ffincher loaded his maid, soe when she was gone
                      he ran to the fellow and fell a beating of him kicking of him and
                      cuffing of him saying can yow neither carry plants nor walke turn'd
                      him home, his wife meeting of him turn'd him back againe till he
                      came to the tobacco howse or thereabouts there the fellow would goe
                      noe further but fell downe, she call'd to her husband and told him the
                      fellow would not walke, he the said ffincher throwing downe the said
                      plants that was in his armes and runn up to the tobacco howse and
                      tooke up a stick and gaue him foure or flue blowes and kickt him and
                      Cuift him againe then about the 2d or 3d hour of the day this depont
                      being in the feilde wth his people heard a greate noise in the tobacco
                      howse like the Clatterring of sticks and crying gett up gett up why
                      doe yow not gett up, soe prsently after this depont saw the wench
                      running home and after her Thomas Whyniard, seeing these thinges
                      this dept pondering in his minde what was the matter and it rise in
                      his hart that the fellow was dead prsently this depont called to Law
                      rence Organ and told him what he thought who answered yor dept
                      Come let's goe and see, soe when we came to the tobacco howse dore
                      Wee saw the fellow upon the ground leaning agst his Mrs knee he
                      being blooddy about the nose this depont askt Joseph ffincher how it
                      came who answered this dept that he fell downe agst the tobacco
                      sticks and further this dept saith not Tho Miles
                     Vera Copia Teste me Theo: Lewys Cler: Com Ann Arundell—
                          Examinacons taken before the Gouernor & Councell
                       Joseph ffincher confess that Jeffery Hagman dyed the 27th day of
                       August 1664—
                       Thomas Miles being further examined upon Oath saith that when
                      he Came into the tobacco howse the said Jeffery Hagman was dead
                      and further he saith he saw black spotts upon his body and hinder
                      parts, Joseph ffincher was urgent wth the said Myles to bury him
                 [p. 377] before any body saw him and further he saith that upon report he
                      was beaten wth 2 Tobacco sticks by the said Joseph ffincher—