138 Provincial Court Proceedings, 1679/80.

Liber W. C.

And whereupon the said Barnard Johnson by
Christopher Rousby his Attorney Complaineth that Whereas hee
the said Barnard Johnson did heretofore (to Witt) in the yeare
for a valluable consideracon purchase of one John Abington
Marchant a certaine parcell or tract of land called then by the name
of Glouc^r Hall Containing Acres more or lesse
To hold to him the said Barnard and his heirs, By vertue Whereof
hee the said Barnard unto the said tract of Land entered and was
thereof posessed & ffrom thence fforth for seaverall yeares together
part of the said Land did Cleare breake up Cultivate improve and
make into a plantacon, & thereupon one dwelling House, Two to-
bacco houses, one Milke house, one hog house and One hen house
did build and cause to bee built, and one Nurcery & Orchard there
did plant, and in the yeare 1678 one good and sufficient Corne ffeild
and Tobacco ground ffor three workemen or Workeing hands with

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a good substancia[ll] ffence of Loggs ffrom damage or danger of
hoggs horses or Cattle did surround and secure, and alsoe in the
said yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred seaventy eight in
and upon the said Cornefeild and Tobacco ground with three worke-
men or Workeing hands one good and sufficient Cropp or Corne
and tobacco did plant worke and attend at all times meet and
requisite and the same Cropp of tobacco att seasonable time and
times did cutt downe & cause to be cutt downe and housed and
hanged in the aforesaid tobacco houses of and belonging to the
aforesaid plantacon, and did make & provide a sufficient number of
tobacco hogsheads for the Packing of the said tobacco w^ch said
tobacco hogsheads to witt, Eight in number were upon the twenty
ffifth day of November 1678 Remaining and being upon the said
plantacon now or late called Glouc^r hall, And whereas she the said
Elizabeth Letchworth in right of Joseph Letchworth her sonn an
Infant did in October 1678 at a Court then held for this Province
at the Citty of s^t Maryes Recover posession of the said tract or
parcell of Land now or late called Glouc^r hall from the said Barnard
Johnson as lyeing within the Manno^r of Brook Court Manno^r ats
Aquasco and as being parcell thereof. Whereby the said Elizabeth
became seized of the said plantation houses and parcell of land
now or late called Glouc^r hall in Right of her said Sonn as aforesaid,
and being thereof soe seized upon the said ffive and twentieth day
of Novemb^r 1678 att the plantacon aforesaid now or late called
Gloucester hall the Workmen and sarvants of him the said Barnard
ffrom strikeing striping & packing of the aforesaid Cropp of Tobacco
then and there hanging, It being at the same time a season and
the said Cropp of tobacco being then in very good case to bee struck
Did obstruct and hinder, And two tunn of Caske that is to say Eight
tobacco hogsheads of the prop goods and Chattells of him the Said
Barnard then and there being did Take and carry away, Lock up and