14 Kent County Court Proceedings, 1648-1656.





         Liber A Isle of Kent, and the rather for that reason of some differences,
               and complaints by the inhabitants, there, against Capt. Robert
               Vaughan, the chief in place and command upon the said Island, the
               course of justice, and keeping courts for the better administration
               thereof, hath been of late discontinued:
                These are, therefore, in the name of the Keepers of the Liberty
               of England, by authority of Parliament, to signify, and declare, that
               for the present, till further order out of England, Mr. Philip
               Conner, Mr Thos. Ringgold. Mr. Thos. Bradnox, Mr. Henry
               Morgan, Mr. Nic. Browne, Mr. Thos. Hynson, Mr. Joseph Wickes,
               Mr. John Phillips, and Mr. John Russell, be Commissioners for the
               said Island, and that they, or any four of them, whereof Mr. Philip
               Conner, or Mr. Thos. Ringgold to be always one, shall have power
               to hear and determine all differences, and to call courts for that
               purpose as often as they shall see cause, to make choice of a Sheriff,
               and a Clerk for keeping Records, and Execution of Writs, and all
               other process, and to act in all things for the peace, safety and
               welfare of the said Island, and the inhabitants thereof, as they or
               the former Commissioners did, or might do, by virtue of their
               commission from the Lord Baltimore, and the Governor & Council
               of this Province under him.
                Requiring all the inhabitants of the said Island to take notice of
               this Order, and to conform themselves accordingly, as they will
               answer the contrary at their peril.
                Given under our hands, at the Isle of Kent the 31st day of July,
               1652.                      Ri: Bennett,
                                           Ead: Lloyd,
                                          Thos: Marsh,
                                          Leo: Strong.
               Hanson, Old Kent, p. 69.
                The Clerk of the Court in 1652 signs his name Thom's Hynson,
               Sen.

               Hanson, Old Kent, pp. 25-26.
         [101.67] At the February session of the Court, in 1652, 0. s., The Court
               granted a Certificate to John Conitt, for 300 acres of land, “he
               coming to this Island, himself, his Wife & Child the first of May
               last, 1652.”

                At this Court, Thos. Marsh, “merchant,” obtained judgment
               against the estate of Wm. Jones.

         [fol. The County Levy for the year 1652 was estimated at 2,877 lbs.
               of tobacco, at the rate of “45 lbs. of tob. per poll of all tithable
               persons throughout this Island.”

         [lot. 70] At the same Court Henry Carlien, and Thos. Ringgold testified,
               that about the last of the previous May, they heard Capt. Jacobs