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Proceedings of the Provincial Court, 1663-1666
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                482  Provincial Court Proceedings, 1665.






                Liber F F ayding & assisting to the sd murther, att the time & in the place aforesd.
                      Wittnesses Agatha Langworth      Witt Caluert
                         Elizabeth Brumley Lucy Good.
                         Tho:  Haylings, Bennett Marchegay/
                       J ures Returne Endorsd Billa Vera/
                       Agatha Langworth aged 50 yeares or thereabouts sworne on the
                     27th day of Septembr 1665 sayth,
                       This Depont Lay sick on her Table on the 17th day of August last,
                     & better by an hower & a half e of sunne when came ffower Indians
                     & knock'd att the doare. The wench by name Lewis Good told this
                 [p. 70]  Depont That shee thought it had beene the Children But Cryed In
                     dians & flung open the doore, wth tht this Depont turnd about, & made
                     to the doore & fownd one of the 4 Indians by name Chotyke wthin
                     the roome & the Dogge keeping a barking att him, hee made some
                     blowes att itt, still Looking uppon this Depont, & made a back blowe
                     att her wth a Tomahauke, but mist her whereuppon hee retreated out
                     of the roome, Thinking (as this Depont supposeth) tht shee might
                     shutt him in the roome. Then this Depont clapt to the doore, when
                     shee did then see the other Indian by name Bennett, & now in cus
                     tody wth Chotyke next to this Chotyke, & another called the old ffish
                     erman alias Inuoyce, tht escaped after taken in custody: & likewise
                     another Indian, wch was not knowne by this Depont was then like
                     wise att this Deponts howse aft this prnt time. Then they went rownd
                     about the howse two or three times, after this Depont had shutt her
                     selfe in the howse. Then shee went to a window next to a neighbors
                     of hers & hollowed & Cryed Indians, Indians. Wth tht the neighbors
                     came, In wch interim this Depont heard her Children cry out saying,
                     Good nindians, good nindians, After wch this Depont did againe see
                     the foresd ffower Indians, & after that fownd Two of her children
                     murthered. And further this Depont sayth not.
                                                  Agatha Langworth/

                       Lewis Good aged 21 yeares or thereabouts sworne on the 27th day
                     of Septembr 1665, sayth
                       This Depont being in the howse of her mistresse Agatha Lang-
                     worth on the 17th day of August last, att wch time her sd mistresse
                     was ill & Lay uppon the Table, when there came to the doores ffower
                     Indians who knockd att the doore when this Depont thought it had
                     bene the Children, & opened the doore, & then cryed Indians, Where
                     uppon her mistresse came of from the table (this Depont not shut
                     ting the doore againe) & went to the doore, when one of the Indians,
                     when one of the Indians by name Chotyke, now in custody was stryk
                     ing att the dogge tht was barking att them, & struck one back blowe att
                     this deponts mistresse, when hee did not misse of hitting her but by
                     a small matter, whereuppon hee retreated backwards, & her mistresse
                     shoote the doores uppon them, And then they lay striking upon the
                     doore their Tomahauks. This Depont further declaring, tht be-
                


 
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