Provincial Court Proceedings, 1676.     291

        the same to pay or satisfie hath hitherto & Still doth deny & refuse Liber N N
        to the damage of the said Benony thirty thousand pounds of tobacco
        and thereupon he bringeth his suite.
          And the said Thomas by Robert Ridgely his Attorny cometh and
        defendeth the force and injury when &c and Saith nothing in barr
        or avoidance of the action aforesaid of him the said Benony in forme
        aforesaid brought whereupon the Said Benony remaineth against
        the said Thomas thereof wholly undefended Therefore it is granted
        by the Court here this day to witt the two & twentith day of May
        Anno Doth 1676 That the said Benony Eaton recover against the
        said Thomas Thurston aswell the summe of eighteen thousand
        pounds of tobacco the debt aforesaid as also the summe of eleaven
        hundred Sixty nine pounds of tobacco costs of suite.

          Thomas Hagleton a negroe petitioneth his Lordshipp that he is
        deteined from his liberty & freedome by Major Thomas Truman
        contrary to agreement made in England by him with One Margery
        Dutchesse who consigned the petitioner to One Thomas Kemp to
        serve for the terme of foure yeares & no longer which time was
        expired about twelve months Since and that he hath wittnesses here
        ready to prove the same Whereupon he prayes he may have a tryall
        with the said Major Truman for his ffreedome this Court and it is
        granted him. Which petition being read in Open Court the foure
        and twentith day of May in the first yeare of the Dominion of
        Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annoq Dom 1676. the said Major
        Truman by Keneim Cheseldyn his Procurator appeared to answer
        the premisses and all evidences thereunto relateing being heard and
        Severall depositions & letters relateing thereunto produced and ad-
        mitted as evidence
          It is the judgment of the Court here that the said Thomas Hagle-
        ton is free.

          It was Comanded William Coursey and Philemon Lloyd gent p. 179
        Whereas Peter Sayer & ffrances his wife were Sumãned to be in the
        Court of his Lopp the Lord Proprietary at his Provinciall Court at
        the Citty of st Maries to answer unto John Rousby & Barbara his
        wife of a plea that whereas they the said John and Barbara & the
        aforesaid Peter & ffrances together & undivided doe hold to them
        & their heirs all those severall parcells of land called Morgans Neck
        containeing three hundred acres, Bluff point containeing two hun-
        dred acres. Morgans st Michaels containeing three hundred acres
        Marron containeing One hundred & thirty acres Morgans Hope
        containeing three hundred acres. Harrison two hundred & Seventy
        acres and Plimhimmon Conteineing six hundred acres, in Talbott
        County and in the County of Kent six hundred acres of land, they
        the Said Peter & ffrances that partition may be made thereof between