Kent County Court Proceedings, 1648-1656.  63

    Ensuinge the date heareof, & for the true pformanc heareof I doe Liber A
    binde ouer unto the sd Henery Morgan on Cow & Calf e of myne tht
    now Runes at Capt~ Rob Vaughanes, & upon the non payment of the
    sd tobacco upon the place & day aboue mentioned, I doe heareby
    Assigne upe all my Right tittle & intreast of the sd Cow & Calfe,
    From mee my heires Executors & Assignes unto the sd Morgan his
    heires Executors Admini or Assignes Foreuer as wittnes my hand
    this 3 of May 1656    James !H Homer
    Wittnes Samuell Chew      his marke
         John Hatton

     Edmund Burton haueinge bought of Robert Martine a blacke [fol. 121]
    heifer dessires her marke may bee Recorded; which is, The right
    Eare Cropte, & slitt in the Cropp & the left Eare Cropte & a small
    underkeele, & uppon ech outside of her hornes, in the whitt of her
    hornes is a blacke streacke; And a blacke & whitt or pied udder;
    3 m° 19th 1656

     This bill bindeth mee Roger Baxster my heires Executors Ad
    ministrs or Assignes to pay or Cause to bee payd unto Hugh Lee
    or his Assignes the full and Just summe of one thousand twoe
    hundred pound of good sound march Tobb at or beefore the 20th
    of Octobr next, & for the true pformance of the same, I doe bynd
    ouer two steeres about 4 or 5 years ould, on blacke and the other
    brounish brandled, wth my part of the plantacon known by the name
    of Onion hill, puided the sd Baxster may haue libertie to kill the
    said steeres, soe to pduce the tobb, & the sd Tobb is to bee payd with
    Caske, witt~ my hand this 7th day of June 1656
                         Roger R B Baxster
    wittnes Jo~ Jenkins his mark   his marke
         Richard Clarke
    Acknowledged in Court by the Debitr July the first 1656

     The depossition of Thomas Reade aged 17 years or theareabouts,
    sworn and Examined in the prsence of mr Henery Morgane the 11th
    of June 1656, saith as folhoweth
     That about the middle of may last, of a saturday at night, Cominge
    horn verie late Intendinge to goe to Goodman Martines, with Goodie
    Martine & Wm Price, to worke at his house, wee weare preuented by
    a gust & foull wether, tht wee Could not goe tht night; And Goodie
    Martin, & Henery Ashley, & younge Robine martine, went to bedd
    togather, and Robine lay betweene, or in the middle, & in the morninge,
    they three weare in bedd as ouernight, & younge Robine lay betweene;
    & further saith not             Thomas Reead