520Talbot County Court Proceedings, 1662-1674.







        Liber BB or any part thereof doe or cause to bee Done in my stead and name as
          No.2 witnesse my hand & scale this 19th Day of March and the 40th yeare

              of the Dominion of Caecilius &c: Annoq Domini 1672:
              Sealed in the psence of us       Jona: Sibrey
                  William Dawes
                  Samuell Petton

                The Depositions of William Guard & William Richardson taken
              march the 19th 1671
                The Deponents saith that the vessell tht Mr Wharton imployed
              Called the John & Jacob: whereof was mr John walley Did not sayle
              from the Harbour of Boston towards any Island of America where
              negroes are to bee sould untill some time in september and further
              saith not                  William Gard
                                           the marke fl
                                         of william Richardson

      [p.—] (*) Articles of Agreemt Couenanted Concented and agreed upon by
              And Betweene Richard wharton of Boston in New England Mer
              chant of the one party And Jonathan Sibury of wyy in Maryland
              Gent: of the other party this 20th of May Anno domini: 1671
                Imprimis the Said Richard wharton doth Couenant and promise
              that he will some tyme before the last day of July next Send forth
              and Imploy A vessell to Some one or more Islands of America
              where negroes are Ordinarily to be Sold which Said vessell shall be
              loaden with A sufficent Cargoe for Obtaining and purchasing ten
              or more heithy and Sound negroes halfe Males And halfe females
              none Exeeding the age of forty yeares and no more then two the age
              of thirty flue yeares and that the said vessell from Such Islands or
              Islands Shall danger of Seas death damage Ineuitable Accidents dis
              appointments exepted Carry and transport to Wyye Riuer in Mary
              land the Said negroes shall out of hir whole Loading as the lott
              Shall be layd deliuer he the Said Sibery three of the Sd negros for
              which the Said wharton Acknowledges to haue Receiued full Sattis
              faction and that Lott Shall Afterwards be layd upon the Remayning
              number of negroes and as the lotts Shall fall Seauen more shall be
              sett Apart for the Said Sibery and Deliuerd to him Or his Assignes
              upon pforemance of the tearmes & Condicons by him here after In-
              gaged Clearely viz
                it is Couenanted and Agreed by the sd Jonathan Sibery that within
              Seauen days after the first arriuell of Such vessell in the sd Riuer
              tht he will Shew psent and deliuer at Some one Conuenient shipping
              place in the Said Riuer to the master of Such vessell or Such pson as

                * From this point there is no paging of the court minutes except very recent
              pencilled numerals. These are valueless because, when made, the proper sequence
              of the record had been upset by careless arrangement when the liber was rebound
              in former years.