Kent County Court Proceedings, 1648-1656. 7








    Hanson, Old Kent, pp. 24-27.              Liber A
     “January the 9th being the Lord's Day, one Burton shot a goose,
    and one Thomas Farington going on the ice towards the goose, was
    drowned, the said Farington being late servant of Mr. Phi!ip Conier,
    on the Isle of Kent. Upon this occasion, a Jury was empanelled, and
    the Coroner sat Jan. 11th 1652, o. s.
     “The deposition of Christian Hill, the Wife of Thos. Hill, being
    of age about 45 years, concerning the death of the said Thos.
    Farington, the said Christian Hi!!, sworne & examined, saith, that
    the boy was at our house upon occasion for his Mistress, and I
    despatched him away presently, and he said, he was to go with
    Goodman Burton for a goose, and within a while after, I went to
    look out after him, and I saw Goodman Burton upon the ice, and he
    went into the canoe, and the boy went out of the canoe upon the
    ice upon his knees with a stick af ore him, and when he came almost
    to the goose, he called to Goodman Burton, and said, the ice cracked,
    and he turned about another way, and presently fell in, and then he
    called to Goodman Burton to help him, and he went forth out of the
    canoe, and when he came within a paddle's length to my discerning,
    he fell in also, L saw him labour with his hands and could endure
    to see the sight no longer, but went in, and further your deponent
    saith not.”

     The license given by the Governor to Thos. Ringgold to kill “any
    wild, unmarked hogs within any of his Lordship's forests” upon
    the “Island” was revoked and returned to the Clerk, on this 2nd of
    Feb., 1652, 0. s.

     By the Commissioners of the Council of State for the Common- [fol. 45]
    wealth of England.
     Whereas the right honorable the council of State for the common
    wealth of England by authority of parliament have committed to us,
    the commissioners several powers in the reducing, settling and
    governing of all the plantations within the bay of Chesapeake, as
    by their commission and instructions, bearing date at Whitehall,
    the 26th day of September, 1651, may appear, in pursuance whereof
    the foresaid commissioners, having applied themselves to the gov
    ernor and council of Maryland, (one of the plantations within the
    limits aforesaid) requiring them to submit themselves and to act
    accordingly, and having tendered the same several times unto them,
    so that they might remain in their places, conforming themselves to
    the laws of the Commonwealth of England, in point of government
    only, and not infringing the lord Baltimore's just rights, which
    they having denied and refused, as being inconsistent with the patent
    of the lord proprietor and their oaths made to him; In obedience,
    therefore, to the said council's commands, in their said commission
    to us directed, for the preservation of the honor and interest of the