Provincial Court Proceedings, 1681. 87

     yeare being under Tenn barrells of Come and ffive hundred weight           Liber W. C.
     of meate The said Nicholas paying the same Quantity againe or the
     Vallue thereof in three yeares at farthest after the date thereof, That
     the said John Baker should forthwith put upon the said plantacon
     six sowes, and in May next foure Cowes & Calves, After wch said
     Sowes Cowes and their Encrease the said Nicholas should Carefully
     looke after, and for his paines and Labour therein the said Nicholas
     should have one third part of the Encrease of hoggs, and One quarter
     part of the Encrease of Cattle, the principall stock to be first made
     good at the end of the Terme, & in Consideracon of the prmisses the
     said Nicholas and his servant should doe their Utmost Labour
     Upon the said Land in Sowing planting and makeing Come Indian
     and English also Buckwheat Indian Pease &c, and the wife to Dresse
     the Victualls Milke the Cowes, wash the servants and Doe all things
     Necessary for a woman to doe upon the sd plantacon Also the said
     Nicholas to build all buildings Necessary the said Baker onely finde
     ing Nayles and finish the Tobacco house already begunn, and a fifteene
     foot house That the said John Baker should finde and provide all
     Come and graine & Pease for seede that should be necessary, and the
     said John to be Repayd the same first out of what should be made,
     and after to have the Intire halfe of the produce of the Plantacon
     Cleere of all charge Except Necessary food for the family, and the
     said Nicholas to have the other Moyety, but the said Nicholas to sell
     the same to the said Baker at the rates and prices ffollowing (That is
     to say) Wheate att fforty pounds of Tobacco p bushell, Rye, Barley
     and Buckwheate each at thirty five pounds of Tobacco p bushell,
     Indian Come at Twenty pounds of Tobacco p bushel & Indian Pease
     att Twenty five pounds of Tobacco p bushell, And as God should
     Enable the said Nicholas he should make good to the said Baker
     the moyety of the Necessaryes that should be then put in by the said
     Baker, also the said Nicholas should as soone as conveniently might
     be plant an Orchard to Containe one hundred Apple trees wch he
     should sufficiently ifence, and the same together wth the Plantacon
     & ifenceing should Leave and surrender up to the said Baker his
     Exrs Admrs or assignes in good repaire at the End of the said ffive
     yeares as by the said articles of agreemt may more at Large appeare,
     and the aforesaid Nicholas in ifact sayth that although he hath
     performed fulfilled and Kept all and singuler the covenants & agreemts
     in the said articles of agreement aforesaid specified on his part to
     be observed pformd & ifulfilled according to the forme and effect of
     the Articles of agreement aforesaid Yet the aforesaid John though
     often thereunto required the articles of agreement aforesaid hath
     not yet done performed or fulfilled according to the forme and effect
     of the said Articles but the same hath broken in this That he the said
     John Baker did not Imediately after the date of the said Articles of
     agreement put on one servant with him the said Nicholas & him or           p. 470