6i8    Charles County Court Proceedings, 1662-1666.

            Liber B Whearupon Mathias Obrian alleaged that hee hath tended for him-
                 self and family more then came to his share and that hee had tended
                 about three thousand Plants and that part of them wear Cut downe
                 and howsed as hee supposed and that hee had tended them from the
                 going out of the souldiers til thay Returned Againe
                   Whearupon the Constable and the sayd Mathias was sent to yew
                 the tobacco the sayd Mathias had tended

             The Court is Adiourned till the 7th December and till eight of the
                       Clocke in the morning Ao 1665
             [p. 516]  At A Court held in Charleses County the 7th of December 1665
                            Present Commissioners
                      Mr Thomas MathewsMr Joseph Harrisson
                      Mr Zachery WaedMr William Marshall
                      Mr Walter Beane

                   Thomas Warton Constable beeing Sent with Mathias Obrian to
                 yew the tobacco that the sayd Mathias had tended Sworne and ex-
                 amined upon oath sayeth that Part of the tobacco was Cut downe
                 and thay beleeue howsed and the sayd Thomas Whorton further say-
                 eth that Neyther Mr Thomas Stone as Guardian to his brother John
                 Stone nor Mr John Stone himself Complayned to him that thay
                 wanted Any worke and further sayeth not
                   It is thearfor Ordered that Mr Richard Stone and Mr Thomas
                 Stone as Guardian to Mr John Stone for themselues and families
                 shall pay unto the sayd Samuell Harris the eighteen hundered pounds
                 of tobacco and Caske and the four barrells of Indian Corne (beeing
                 yestarday ordered him for his Crope) it beeing by them Neglected
                 and Lost

                   Whearas John Voydery Edward Richards Thomas Mustiam
                 Thomas Crackson and William baetman wear prest and taken for
                 souldiers in the last indian Martch up the bay thay beeing Carpinders
                 and Persons hauing no Crops whearof John Voydery Edward Rich-
                 ards Thomas Mustiam & Thomas Crackson wear out eleuen weeks
                 and flue days and william baetman only flue weeks and flue days on
                 the Publicke Accoumpt hee hauing alredy Receaued satisfaction by a
                 Contract Contracted with W Thomas Stone for the first six weekes
                   For the Encoragment of others that shall bee Called to sarue the
                 Contry as souldier hearafter It is thearfor ordered that John Voydery
                 Edward Richards Thomas Mustiam Thomas Crackson shall each of
                 them haue out of the Leui of this County twelue hundered & thirty
                 pounds of tobacco apeece and Caske and william baetman six hun-
                 dered pounds of tobacco and Caske (it biing after the Raet of 15 lb
                 of tob: day thay hauing bin out eightie too day and william baet-
                 man only forty days