Provincial Court Proceedings, 1673.     149

      Dunch and now Riding at Anchor in the River Thames and by gods Liber M M
      grace bound for Patuxent in Maryland to say foure hdds Eight
      Runlets Eleaven bundles Two Caskes Two boxes foure barrels Two
      Chests one pack and one Trusse one Trunke and one Close stoole
      being in all thirty seaven pcells' being marked and numbered as in
      the margent and are to be Delivered in the like good ordr and well No
      Conditioned at the aforesayd Port of Patuxent the Danger of the
      Seas only Excepted unto Mr Richard Wells and Mr George Wells 0. o. 26 O.11.
      in Ann Arundell County at Herring Creeke or to their assignes freight 24.25 23.
      for the said goods being already payd. with primage and Average 15:1617:18:
      accustomed In wit[ness] whereof the Master or purser of the said
      ship hath affirmed to three bills of Lading all of this Tenor and date Rw. S. No.0
      the one of three bills being accomplished the other to stand voyd
      and so God send the good ship to her Desined Port in safety Amen
      Done in Graves End 20th August 1668. these pcells Received Con
      tents nor condition [not] Knowne Tohu Dunch.
        On the backside of the said bill of Loding was thus written vizt
      Goods in the ship not Entred in the bill of Loding. To my owne Sea
      Chest To one bread box To one Gunn To one payer of steelyards, To
      one bundle in a basket of Curtaines and vallence bound over with a
      Cloth Called Buckram To two Ovall baskets To one box of Medi
      cines To one Port mantle              R. W.
        Likewise was thus written:
        John Dunch Comander of the Baltamore being sworne this 23th
      day of June 1673. before me Deposeth and saith that to the best of
      his Knowledge he did subscribe and affirme the within mentioned
      bill of Loding and set his hand thereunto and that he did Deliver the
      goods theirein mentioned to George Wells according to the Tennour
      of the said bill of Loding as also the goods mentioned on the back
      of this bill of loading and that he hath a Receipt for the same from
      the said George Wells but for want of his booke he cannot possitively
      declare the same to be so.
                                   Sworne before me
                                       Philip Calvert.

        Received on board the ship Baltamore whereof I am Comandt
      Seaven servants vizt John Catlin Ann Brookeland Roger Gutheridge
      Thomas Williams Mathias Stevenson Kathereine Griffin and one
      Negro called Bonnet for the account of Mr Richard Wells of Mary
      land, which I doe hereby Engage me my heires & Executors to Deliver
      to Mr George Wells or his assignes in Maryland Mortallity the
      Danger of the seas Restraint of Princes and unlicensed Escapes
      Excepted Witnes my hand this 22d of August 1668.
                                         Jno Dunch.
        On the backside of the said Receipt was thus written.
        John Dunch Comandr of the Baltamore being sworne this 23th of
      June 1673 before me saith that to the best of his Knowledge he did