Provincial Court Proceedings, 1666.     9'

      Know all men by these prsents that Joseph Swett of Boston in the Liber FF
    Massachusetts Colonie of New England Marriner Daniel Turin
    of the same Boston Blacksmyth and Mary Cad of said Boston wid-
    dow the Relict and Administratrix to the Estate of the late Barthole-
    mew Cad of the said Boston Marriner her late husband deceased
    upon the 5th day of Octobr in the yeare of Our Lord 1665 Stilo
    Anglo Annoq Regni Regis Caroli secundi xvii, Appeared before
    Mee Robt Howard dwelling in said Boston Notary and Tabillion
    publiq by Authority of the Generall Court of the Colonie aforesd
    Admitted and Sworne in prsence of the wittnesses hereafter named,
    the said Joseph Swett Daniel Turin and Mary Cad declared and
    mainfested, that of theire Owne Accords they haue nominated As-
    signed made Ordained Constituted and appointed, and in theire steads [p. 340]
    and places by these prsents doe nominate Assigne made Ordaine
    Constitute and appoint William Hollingworth of Salem in the said
    Collony merchant theire true and law full Attorney in their names
    & steads & to theire uses to aske demand sue for recouer receiue
    Obtaine and gett all and Singular such sume and sumes of money
    debts goods wares merchandizes and thinges whatsocuer as now are
    or hereafter shall bee Oweing belonging or appertaining unto them
    Constituants Joyntly or any One of them scuerally by or in the hands
    or possession of any person or persons whatsoeuer in maryland or
    New York, be it by bill booke Obligacon specialty accompt Couenant
    or Otherwise by any way or meanes whatsoeuer nothing excepted or
    reserued wth all Costs and Interests also the sd person or persons
    to accompt and take an accompt of them Concerning all affaires and
    bussinesses between the said Constituants Joyntly and any of them
    seuerally and them or any of them the said debtors, likewise for or
    Concerning the premisses or any part or parcell thereof to compound
    and agree acquittances or other sufficient discharges in the names of
    them Constituants to make subscribe seale and deliuer if need he all-
    soc for the prmisses to appeare and the persons of them Constituants
    to represent in all Courts and before all Lords Judges and Justices,
    And to doe say persue implead seize sequester attach arrest imprison
    and to Condempne and out of prison againe when need shall be to
    deliuer likewise One Attorney or more wth like or limitted power
    undr him theire aforesaid Attorney to make and substitute and at
    his pleasure to reuoake and Generally in and Concerning the premisses
    to doe say Conclud execute and determine all and wtsoeuer the said
    Constituants themselues might or could doe if they were prsonally
    present, The said Constituants promiseing to haue and to hould for [p. 341]
    good firme and of ualue all and whatsoeuer their said Attorney or
    his substitutes shall lawfully doe or procure to be done in or about
    the premisses by uertue hereof In wittnes whereof the said Constitu