Kent County Court Proceedings, 1648-1656.39








    In the name of God Amen I Edward Tarant beeinge very sicke Liber A
  of bodie but of pfecte sence and Memory thancks bee to God, doth [fol. 108]
  now make my last will and Testament in maner and form followinge
    I bequeath my bodie to the ground and my soull unto God tht
  gaue it in Confident hope of a Joyfull Ressurection to hue foreuer
  with Christ my Redeemer
    I giue and bequeath my Estate after my Just debtes are satisfied
  unto my sister Rebecka and my sister Elizabeth and to my Nurst in
  Bristoll to bee equally deuided betwixt them only on hohds of tobacco
  unto Capt~ Joseph Wickes for his tender Care of mee in my sicknes
  whom I doe by this my last will and Testament apoint my Ouerseer
  In trust to see this my will pformed, as allsoe I giue unto Charles
  steward three of my hoggs and unto this my last will and Testament
  I haue sett my hand this of Nouembr 1655
  Wittnes Jos: Wickes
         Charles steuart
  This Will proued in Open Court by the testemony of Charles Stuart
  and Capt Joseph Wickes Nouember 29th 1655
                               p me Tho: Hill Clar

 At a Court houlden for kent January the First 1655 at the hous of [fol. 109]
         mr Tho: Hinson high sheriffe for the Countie
         mr Phillip Conier mr Henery Morgan
         mr Joseph Weickes Capt Jno Russell

          mr wm Eliot

    Tho: Hill sinior hauinge pettissioned the Court & mad his Rights
  of Land appeare undr mr Tho: Hattons hand formerly secrat~ late
  dessassed For on Thousand Ackers declaringe his Intent to enter a
  Cauiet accordinge to an Act of Assembly no 28; which was not
  denied, but Assented too
    The sd Tho: Hill doth theare fore Enter a Cauiet for a Certaine
  tract of land, bounded to the Southward with tht plantacon formerly
  Copedges & now in the possession of Jno Salter; To the Westward
  with the head of the Bay side plantations; Bounded to the Northward
  or one end of this slipe of Land extendinge North to the Cabine
  necke Bounded on the East side (at the loer or south end) with
  Longe Creecke the which land he enters a Cauiet for as a part of the
  forementioned Rightes of one thousand Ackers, groundinge the sd
  Entrance upon tht Act of Assembly no 28:

    mr Henery Canine Complaines agai mr Tho: Ward For Certaine
  beare and wine which he had of him, tht is not hitherto payd for,
  nor any way satisfied; The sd Ward acknowledginge the Complaint,
  & the debt made appeare to bee One hundred & twelue pounds of
  tobacco