68   Provincial Court Proceedings, 1663.






              Liber B B   paymt of any such Due to my sd Attorney whom I doe aliso author
                     ize to giue acquittances & discharges in my name, & on my behalfe to
                     any prson or prsons whatsoeur tht haue payd their iust dues, And one
                     Attorney or more under himselfe to make, & them againe att his att
                     his pleasure to reuoake, And generally to Act & doe Euery thing &
                     things whatsoeur in & about the prmises in as full ample & large man
                [p. 105]  ner as if I my selfe were prsonally prnt to all intents & purposes what
                     soeur. Moreouer I doe hereby ratify & confirme whatsoeu' my
                     Attorney shall happen to doe in & about the prmises or shall cause
                     to bee done therein. In testimony whereof I haue hereunto sett my
                     hand this 27th day of ffebruary 1660 Jacob Johnson Seale
                       Sealed & deliuered in the
                        prnce of us
                          Henry Warren John Blakiston.

                       This Bill bindeth mee Samuel Smith of the Prouince of Maryld
                     my Executors Admistrators or Assignes to pay or cause to bee payd
                     unto Jacob Johnson or his order the iust quanty 0f Two Thowoand
                     & ffowrty of good merchble Tob & caske, uppon all demands, As witt
                     nes my hand this 28th ffebruary 1660. Samuel Smith.
                       Testes Justinian Gerard Richard ffowke.

                          Endorsed.
                       Recd of John Shanks in part of this Bill sixteene hundfl
                     Twenty Three pownds of Tob & Caske wch is indorsed on the 1623l
                     Back side of John Shankes his Bill to Coz Sam: Smith
                Nouembr 19th 1661.               Rests due 0417l Tob.
                     To the honble the Gouernor & Councell
                       The Pete of Jacob Johnson Humbly Sheweth

                       That whereas Samuel Smith att time of his Decease stood in
                     debted ffowre hundd & odde pownds of Tob to yor Petr, Yor Petr
                     humbly Craues order for Two hundd & fifty pownds of Tob & cask
                     out of the Estate of Samuel Smith, And hee shall as in duty bownd
                     pray.

                       Ordered tht the Petr recour according to his Petn.. Robt Slye gentn
                     Adffiistrator of the Estate of Samuel Smith Confesseth Judgmt to
                     Jacob Johnson for Two hundd & fifty pownds of Tob. & Cask ac
                     cording to his Demand.

                       Appeared before mee Salomon Zachary Notary Publicus admitted
                     by the Rt hond Gour & Councell, Lyuing att Amsterdam in the New
                     Neatherlands & fore the hereafter named Wittnesses ffrederick Gis
                     bertson mercht of this towne, & hear in the best manner & forme made
                     constituted & appoynted his louing ffreind Mr Joseph Swett of Boston
                     in New England Mariner, now att prnt ready to sett sayle for Vir
                     ginia Especially, for in the name & for the proper use of the Con-