30 Kent County Court Proceedings, 1648-1656.





        Liber A Item That all the wholl stocke males and females that shall bee
                Raissed of the forementioned beast or upon her increace shall
                remaine with the prinsipall For the usse and Comoditie of the sd
                Thomas Hill as beef ore till the sd seauen yeares bee expired
              Item That if the affor [      ] bee lost or dye that the best
                in the Joint stocke if [    ] her place as Marke Bentons
                pp goodes [   ] partnershipe as beefore till the remainder
                of the seauen yeares bee expired
               Item That at the expiration of the sd seauen yeares the sd Thomas
                Hill his heirs Exec Adm or Assi upon lawfull demaund shall
                giue a true accoumpt of the sd stocke & shall suffer the sd Marke
                or his Assig to tack into his or theire Custodie the aforesayd
                beast beeinge his or theire owne pp goodes and alsoe the one half e
                of all the Increase & the deuission (if need bee) to bee made by
                twoe indifferent men
               Item The sd marks Benton Doth lickwise Couenaunt for himselfe
                his hers Exe~ Admi~ & Assi~ that hee nor they shall any way
                trouble or molest the sd Thomas Hill his heirs Exec Admi~ or
                Assignes for the principall or increasse or any part theareof for
                securitie or in any other respecte Concerninge the sd stocke in
                partnershipe Dureinge the sd seauen yeares And for any such
                trouble or molestation to forfeite his and theire wholl Cleme &
                intreast in theese ptmises
               Item That it shall bee lawfull for the sd Thomas Hill his heir Exe~
                Admi~ or Assh to conuert Change or turne males into females
                for the beteringe of the sd stocke and for Confirmation of all
                the forementioned pticulers wee haue heareunto set or hands the
               day and yeare first aboue writtenp me Tho: Hill
              Signed and deliüed             Marke Benton
                in the prsents of
                   Jn°   Deare
                             his marke
                            Allexr Monro

         [fol. 102] To mr Phillip Conier Comãnder and the rest of the Commissioners
         7 mo 1655 of the Countie of Kent in Mariland

                Whearas the Commons of the Countie of Kent in Marieland by
               their Representatiues or Burgesses chosen by them to atend the
               Generall Assembly October the 20th 1654 did dessire that the might
               Retaine theire antient priuilidge to haue a Coup of Judicature Con
               tinued in the sayd Countie And the Assembly by a pticular acte in
               that Casse puided, did determine that the should enioy that priuilidge
               as formerly, and that the next Prouinciall Court should Consider of
               the psones nominated & ppounded to bee Comissioners for the said
               Countie of Kent and Receiue theire Engagment to the prsent
               Gouernmt setled in Mariland under his Highnes the Lord Protector