586Talbot County Court Proceedings; 16621674.








          Liber BB them allsoe and threw the said Other hogg Behind the house itt was
            No.2    a Great hogg With White and Blacke Spotts With the Eares Market
                Butt What Marke I Doe Not knowe the unmarked Shoate Was Flead
                and the Greate hogg Was Flead and as the was Flaing the said hogg
                there Came up one of there horses to the house and they thougt some
                People ware Comeing they Blew out ther Candle When the saruant
                Came in Mr Robbins Asket the Wench if they had Donn She said
                Noe he Asket her what the came in for She Answred She came in
                to light the Candle for she had Blone it out Because She was afraid
                Somebody was a Comeing and the said saruant Maid Tould yor De
                ponant tht she had kill a Nother hogg With Whole Eares and yor
                Depont tould tht said Maid I beleiue it is one of George Allembey
                hoggs & you will be hanged One time or other and the said Saruan
                Maid Replied Doe you thinke if I did Not doe such trickes I should
                liue Soe quiett as I Doe and further yor Deponant that She hath
                Knowne that they haue had three Or fowre hoggs in Weeke But
                who Brought them I Doe Not know Nothing Else But only I haue
                herd him say tht if his folkes Ware True to him he Would Goe to
                Barbodos Next yeare and further yot Deponant saith Not as I can at
                Present Remember Concerneing hoges     Eliza: E K Wattson
                Sworne Before me Edw Roe:    Signé

            [p. --] yor Deponant haueing Better Recollectted hir Memory Saith Fur
                ther that Some tim in Augst Last Mr Robbins Sent his men out into
                the Woods & Charged them Not to Come in Without Some kind of
                Meate But his first Comand was to kill a hogg But his Saruants Re
                plied phaps Wee Can Meete with Non then George Robbins Said
                they Must Not Come in without Some Meate Or Other this Was
                on a Sunday by my Rememberance Edward Winckles and Jonathan
                Hopkinson Wife was there and Jn° Whittingtons wife & the said
                Saruants Retorned Before these People was Gon haueing then Killed
                a Hogg and hid the said hogg and Durst Not Bringe the Said hogg
                to the house Because those People ware there Butt torned theire
                Horses into the Passtor Soe Came to the house without Anythinge
                the George Robbins Askt them Priuatly if they had killed a hogg
                they Said yes then George Robbins bid them say they had been to
                Looke for horses and When the Saruant Came in he Asked them
                if had found them and they said Noe then he Pretended to bee Angry
                With them saying if he had Not sent a Company of Fooles they
                Might haue found them they ware then Intended to goe to Douer
                and yor Deponant went wth them to witt Mr Robbins and his Wife
                and as Mr Robbins was goeing to take horse he the said Robbins
                Called Robert Marmaduke and bid him the said Robbert that if he
                had an opertunity that Noe People Came to Fech the aforesaid hogg
                in and that if People Came that he Could Not Gett the said hogg
                in he should Carry some salt and salt itt Where itt Lay that itt
                Might Not spoil and the said Robbins tould the said Robertt tht he