458  Provincial Court Proceedings, 1665.






                Liber F F  Corps hath Come by his death hauing found him bruised much on
                  his Body These sworne before mee William Groome—
                  [p. 39] The Jurors names
                       William Chaplaine  Samuell Sloper
                        his marke his marke
                       Guy WhiteEdward Crockett
                       Thomas Markin his marke
                       Enoch CoomesCornelius Verhoo fe
                       Willm ReeuesGeorge Hutchinson
                       Richard Dury his marke
                       Edward CrooweHenry Osterlings
                        John Harrice aged about 22 yeares old saith That Joseph Wright
                        was riding uppon the draught tree of William Berrys Mill and the
                        Mill made a stop and he fell downe, and further he saith not—
                        Sworne before me this 2d
                          of March 1664/5
                           Willm Groome

                  July 8th Thomas Gerrard dds writt agst Richard ffoster in an accon of
                       trespass to the uallue of one hundred thowsand pounds of tohaccoe
                        Warrt to sherriffe of St Marys County to arrest &c. Ret pma
                       August next Prouinciall Court
                       County of St Marys ss: To the Honble Gouernor and Councell
                        The humble pete of Thomas Gerrard agst Richard ffoster Most
                       humbly sheweth
                        That whereas the said Thomas Gerrard by his Deed bearinge date
                       the 20th day of February, wch was in the yeare of Our Lord 1647
                       did demise & to farme lett unto Nicholas Gwyther and Thomas
                       Jackson theire Executors and Administrs one Neck or parcell of land
                       wth One Island, Called by the name of St Margarites Island Contain
                       ing in all seauen hundred acres of land scituate lying and being in
                       the County aforesaid, to haue and to hould unto the said Nicholas
                       and Thomas theire Executors and Assignes for & during the tearme
                       of twenty and one yeares from the ifeast of the Natiuity Commonly
                       Called Christmas was in the yeare of Our Lord 1643 And fully
                  [p. 40]  to be Compleate and ended, as by the said Deed more at large appear
                       eth; by wch Vertue of which said demise the said Nicholas and
                       Thomas did enter into the prmisses and the same hath enjoyed and
                       Occupied and possessed to them and theire Assignes for and during
                       the tearme aforesaid which sd tearme allthough long since Expired
                       yet the said Richd ffoster Assignee of the said Nicholas and Thomas
                       or of One of them doth Continue the possession of the ptmisses and
                       the same hath wthholden from yor petr and as yet doth wthhold and
                       Detaine to his Dathage of One thowsand pounds of Tobacco whereby
                       accon accrueth to yor petr