436  Provincial Court Proceedings, 1665.






                 LiberFF   March 18th 1664/5

                        A true Copy of an Inuentory of the Estate of Joseph ffincher taken
                      by me William Burges there being prsent
                      Mr Roger Gross   Capt Thomas Besson
                      Mr George Puddington Mr Richard Ewen Commiss
                      Impt 3 Cows 1 steere 3 yeares old 3 steeres 2 yeares old apeice
                        3 steeres yearlings 1 yearling Heifer
                        about 20 head of hoggs small and greate
                        1 flock bed 2 Boulsters and 2 old pillowes
                        2 old ruggs 1 Couerled 2 Blanckitts
                        1 paire of Cowrse Sheets 1 pillow beare
                        1 small Chest one Chest more somewhat bigger
                        7 yards & ½ of Blew linnin
                        8 yards of Dowlas 3 yards of holland
                        2 Gunns 1 fixt the other unfixt
                        1 large looking glass
                        3 Iron wedges 1 pr of maule rings 1 hand saw
                        1 Auger 2 Smoothing Irons
                        1 Iron pott 1 frying pann 1 Grid Iron
                        1 pewter dish 9 pewter spoones 3 panns tinn, 1 parringer
                        3 leather Chaires 1 spitt 1 old Chamber pott
                        350 acres of land—
                                  Vera Copia teste me Nath: Heathcoate Clke

                        Christopher Stephenson dds writt agst William Watts In an accon
                      of Detinue to the uallue of 6oooth tob:
                        Warrt to sherriffe St Marys County to arrest &c. Ret June
                      next Prouinall Court

                      To the honble the Gouernor and Councell of the Prouince of Maryland
                        The humble petn of Christopher Stephenson Sheweth
                        That whereas it was agreed uppon betweene Willm Watts and
                      Christopher Stephenson that the said Stephenson should with the
                      said Watts make a Crop of Corne and tobacco this prsent yeare and
                      the said Stephenson was to pay to the said William Watts for his
                      dyett &c 300lb tob: or one steere of three yeares old, whereuppon the
                      said Stephenson brought all his Clothes and Goods to the house of
                      the said Wm Watts, and likewise one mare which the said Stephenson
                      had bought the last yeare of Hugh and William Woodbury & payd
                      the one half e of his said debt for the mare then ready downe and
                      past his bill for the remaindr of the other halfe to be paid this Crop
                      wth which the said Woodbury was Content.
                        But now soe it is, that uppon some fallings out betwixt the aboue
                      said partyes the said Stephenson not intending to liue any longer
                      wth the said Watts in regard of his dayly abusing the said Stephenson