Kent County Court Proceedings, 1648-1656.19





  Deeds Liber A, pp. 11-12.                  LiberA
    The Deposition of John Salter aged 27 or thereabouts sworn in [fol. 79]
  Court saith
    That in or about the Month October in 1650 your deponant being
  at the house that John Winchester then lived in did here William
  Body and Thomas Belcher Condition and agree for a parcell of Land
  that the said Mr Belcher had taken up adjoyning to the Land of
  Thomas Pett by Estimation fifty acres more or less That if the said
  Body did well and truly pay unto the said Mr Belcher one good Cow
  great with Calf or a Calf by her side by the last of March next that
  then he should enjoy it And also the said Belcher was to procure
  him a Patent as soon as he could and further saith not
                                  John  Salter
                        sign
  1653 —
    The Deposition of John Winchester aged 30 or thereabts sworn
  in Court saith
    That in or about february in 1650 William Body did buy a Cow
  of your Deponant which he said was for Mr Belcher for a parcell of
  Land he bought of him, and wishes your Deponant to deliver the
  Cow by the last of March And your deponant demanded of the
  said Body when he was to have his patent of Mr Belcher and he
  answered he was to have it as soon as he could gett it and your
  Deponant said that it was best then to take under his hand that he
  might have something to shew for it and further saith not
                   John Winchester

  Deeds Liber A, pp. 15-21.
       August the 15th 1652—
  25th August Forasmuch as I Francis Lumbard of the Ile of Kent
    Reced. . . . Jplanter stand Indebted unto Thomas Marsh Merchant
  the sum of five thousand seven hundred thirty six lb of Tobacco
  due in the Year Anno 1651 upon all demands as by the said Marshes
  book of accounts may appear Know ye then that I the aforesaid
  Lumbard have and do for the security and payment of the afd sum
  make over and do by these presents bind and make Over all my whole
  Estate now or at any other time visable to him or his assignes from
  me my heirs Executors or Assignes And do further acknowledge my
  whole Estate to be his and to be disposed of as he shall think fltt untill
  such time as his debt be fully sattisfied and do by these presents own
  and acknowledge a Judgment made of the premisses before Mr
  Thoms Ringgold Justice in Court with many others deputed the
  Day and Year above Written Francis Lumbard
  Witness
      John Brewer
      Thos Ringgold