Kent County Court Proceedings, 1656-1662.III





  That I will Make Childrens Bargons for if The Boy had ben with Liber B
  him but A mounth he would haue had his full pay for The wholl
  yeare According To Agrement/  Anne   Hinson
                                   her signe

    Thomas Hinson sworne saith
    That yor Dept being at Mr Wickes his house somtime with in
  This 2 yeare: where the sd Mr Wickes Did Desier yor Dept to bare
  witnes That he Did There Tender A heifer Calfe for The Vsse of
  Mr Hill which was for his boys scholling And wisht yot Dept And
  his wife to Acquaynt mr Hill with The Deliuery And That he would
  not stand no longer to The hasard of her And That he had no other
  of her Age & grouth: which yor Dept Did And Mr Hill was very
  well sattesfied with The Deliuery: And sd That very sudenly after
  he would send his sunn vp to se her And not long after the sd M' Hill
  Did Tell yor Deponant That his sunn had seen The heifer: And That
  Mr Wickes had Dealt Very honestly with him for he had Caused his
  men to shew him it: And had vssd his sunn very kindly at his house:
  which he sd he was very Much behoulding vnto him for: But not
  long After This And Vnto The time neare his Death The sd Mr
  Hill severall Times And in Diuers peopells hearing That Mr Wickes [fol. 25]
  had Don very Dishonesly with him About his Acounts And Recon
  ings with him: And yor Dept And his wife Mr Ringgold & sunn &
  Mt Hills wife & sunns hath Demanded how or wherein: And The
  sd M' Hill would fetch Deap sieths: And say That he was A very
  wecked man And had Dealt Very Dishonestly both by him & his
  sunn Thomas And he was one That nether Regarded god nor his
  Credit And it will Corn whom by him quoth he before he Dies I
  am prswaded: And Then would often Times shake his head And
  Desier The peopell not to name his name for he sd his Dishonest
  Dealings with him Did much Truble him And This he often sd neare
  to his Dung Day: And That Time would make it Appeare Vnto The
  world he sd:                      Tho: Hinson


    Whereas it hath ben The great Complaint of Many prsons vpon
  This Island Agaynst John Deare for his Comon frequenting The
  wield gange killing Cattell both ould And young And Marking of
  Calfes all which he prtends to be his owne: yet is heald very sus
  spitious both by The Complaynants And the Court:
    Therefore The Court hath orderd That The sd Deare shall not at
  Any Time here after goe into Those woods Agayne Alone: But
  That he shall Take with him Two honest naybours That may se he
  Doth nothing Any wayes That may be Iniurious to Any man which
  The sd Deare hath very willingly Consented vnto And hath pmised to
  fullfull The sarne/