Provincial Court Proceedings, 1682. 255

     and settle between them some trade & comerce into this Province        Liber W. C.
     whether the said Winlock was then bound Hee the said Edward
     Upon the twelfth day of November in the said year of Or Lord 1669
     did Shipp in good order and welconditioned upon the Ketch called
     the Hopewell whereof was Master for that prSent Voyage one
     George Toye & then Rideing at Anchor in the Roade at Barbadoes
     Two Negroe men and one Negroe youth named Ned Toby & Jack
     to be delivered in the like good order and well conditioned at the
     Port of Petuxent River in Maryland (the Danger of the Seas and
     mortality excepted) unto the said Winlock Christison or his As
     signes ifraight for the said Negroes to be paid at Barbadoes at
     foure hundred pounds of Muscavadoe Sugar p head, In Con
     sideracon whereof hee the said Winlock Christinson did then and
     there Assume upon himself & to the said Edward Oistin faithfully
     promise that if the said Negroes should arrive alive and safe at
     the aforesaid Port of Maryland that he the said Winlock would re
     ceive them for the said Edward Oistines prop account & Keepe them
     till his further ordr or make Satisfaction for the same or the pduce
     thereof when he Should be thereunto requested, And the said
     William Digges in fact saith that the said Ketch did shortly after
     arrive safely in the Port of Maryland and the said Winlock Christen
     son did receive the said three Negroes alive and Safe & in good
     condition & the same Ncgroc3 hath 3incc sold and disposed of at
     his will & pleasure. Yett notwithstanding the said Winlock his
     Promise and Assumption soe as aforesaid made little regarding
     but deviseing and fraudulently intending him the said Edward
     Oistin of the Said three negroes soe to him consigned as aforesaid
     to deceive and defraud, Hee the said Winlock in his life time nor
     the said William Dixon and Elizabeth his wife William Sharpe &
     Thomas Taylor or any of them since his death to him the said
     Edward Oistin in his life time or to the said William Digges Since
     his death have made or Rendered any satisfaccon for the said three
     Negroes or the Produce thereof though often thereunto requested
     but for the same to pay and Satisfy have hitherto denyed and re
     fused and still doth denye and refuse to the Damage of the said
     William Digges thirty thousand pounds of Tobacco and thereupon
     he bringeth his Suite, And he bringeth into Court here his Letters
     of Admracon by wch it may appeare he is Administratr &c.
       And the said William Dixon and Elizabeth his wife William
     Sharpe and Thomas Taylor by Kenelm Cheseldyn their Attorney
     cometh and defendeth the force and injury when &c & prayeth
     Liberty to imparle hereunto untill the next Provinciall Court and
     it is granted unto him the same Day is given to the plt. likewise
       Now here at this day to wit the Sixteenth day of October in the
     seaventh yeare of the Dominion of the Right honoble Charles Lord
     Baltemore &ca Annoq Doni 1682 Came the sd ptyes by their At-