Provincial Court Proceedings, 1665.  489






       That is the sd Mr Gleuen doth fully agree & bind himselfe his heyres Liber F F
      executors or Admistrators to pay or cause to bee payd unto the 8d
      Toby Weells or his heyres executors or Admistrators or assignes, the
      full & just sume of six & Twenty Thowsd pownds of good sownd mer
      chantable Tob. & Cask, The one half e to bee payd this prseflt yeare
      uppon demand, And the Remainder to bee payd the next yeare fol
      lowing by the Tenth day of Octobr next wch shall bee in the yeare
      1666, And ailso hee binds himself e his heyres or exeqtrs or Admis
      trors to pay or cause to bee well & truly payd unto Philip & Sarah
      Conner the Children of Mr Philip Conner late of the Isle of Kent
      deceased the sume of ffowre Thowsd pownds of Tob & Cask as they
      shall come of age equally betwixt them, And to pay the one halfe of
      all necessary Charges expended this Court, as sheriffs or Clerks ffees
      & 60£ of Tob. to the Attorneys, And to this agreemt they haue sett
      their hands the day & yeare aboue written/
       Teste James Ringgold          Barthol. Gleuin
          Anthony  Calloway          Toby Weells
              his marke
       And the Costs, or Charge of this suite betweene Barth. Gleuen & 781
      Toby Weells allowed by the Court is six hundd & fifty pownds of Tob.
      to bee deuided betweene them according to agreemt & noe more.

       The Grand Jury Came into Court, & being demanded whither
      they had agreed uppon busines? They answered, Yes.
       Then they gaue in these Bills (Vizt)
       Jacob, negro, presentmt.
       The Two Indians presentmt.

       The Two Indians, Maquamps alias Bennett & Chotyke called to Vid supra
      the Bar. Their prsentmt Read/They both stand mute, & putt them- post Inditemt
      selues uppon the Board.                    fol 69 & seq.
       Then the Clerk read the Deposns of Mrs Agatha Langworth, Luce
      Good, Elizabeth Brumley, Thomas Haylings, & Bennett Marchegay.
       The Judgmt of the Board—murther.

      Called to the Bar Jacob the negro. The prsentmt Read, WCh is as
      followeth/
       The Jury for the Rt honble the Ld Proprietary doe present That
      Jacob a negro slaue & seruant to Nathaniel Vtye of Spesutia in Bal
      temore County & to Mary his Wife the 30th of Septembr 1665 in the Presentmt
      howse of the sd Nathaniel Vtye in Spesutia aforesd in the County
      aforesd by force & armes, to witt, wth a drawne knife of Two pence
      ualue, wch the sd Jacob then & there in his hand did hold, Vppon the
      aforenamed Mary, the Wife of the sd Nathaniel Vtye then his Mis
      tresse then & there in the peace of god, & his sd Lordship, being uol