Provincial Court Proceedings, 1675.     135

        likewise I giue unto my Daughter Mary Tolly two Cows & one Liber N N
        Heifer of three yeares old with their female Increase, one Sow bigg
        with Piggs, one feather bedd & bolster with one Rugg & Blankett
        And if itt should please God that either of them should happen to
        miscarry, that all should fall unto the other, the abovesaid pticulars
        to be delivered att Eighteene yeares of Age or else att their day of
        Marriage, the marke of the Cattle is a Slitt on the right Eare & a
        cropp with a slit & a nicke on the left In wittnes of the truth hereunto
        I sett my hand & Seale the third day of ffebruary 1675
                                 the marke of
                             Margarett M Tolly (sealed)
        Signed Sealed & deld in the prsence of us
         M Jones the marke of Wm Jarrett
        On the backside of the aforegoing Deed was written Vizt.
                         Aprill 6th 1676
         The within written Deed of Gift was by the within named Marga-
        rett Tolly otherwise Stevens Acknowledged to be her Act & Deed
        in open Court & Consented too by John Stevens her Husband to
        be Recorded.           Jno Blomfeild CI Cur Provincial

        Marke Cordea 1 Joseph Eadloe of St Maries County in the Prov-
           agt ince of Maryland planter was Sufñoned to answer
      Joseph Eadloej   unto Marke Cordea of a plea that he render unto
                  him the full and just summe of Eight hundred
        Seventy two pounds of good Sound and every way well conditioned
        tobacco according to Act of Assembly in caske which to him he
        oweth and unjustly doth deteine &
         And whereupon the Said Marke Cordea by Keneim Cheseldyn
        his Attorny Saith that whereas the Said Joseph upon the first day
        of May in the yeare of Our Lord One thousand Six hundred
        Seventy five by his certaine bill or writeing Obligatory Sealed with p. 85
        the Seale of him the Said Joseph and here in Court produced whose
        date is the day and yeare aforesaid, did bind himselfe his heirs ex-
        ecutors and administrators to pay or cause to be paid to Marke
        Cordea of the Same place Gent his heirs executors administrators
        or assignes the full and just Summe of Eight hundred Seventy two
        pounds of good Sound and every way well conditioned tobacco ac-
        cording to the Act of Assembly and caske being for a valuable con-
        sideration already received to be paid at or upon the tenth day of
        October next ensueing the date of the Same bill in some convenient
        place of the Said County. Yet the Said Joseph although often there-
        unto required the Same to pay hath refused and as yet doth refuse
        whereupon the said Marke Saith he is dampnified and hath losse to
        the value of One thousand pounds of tobacco And thereupon he
        bringeth his Suite.
         Now here at this day to witt the tenth day of ffebruary in the