Notes from the Records of York County Transcribed by Kathy Merrill for the USGenWeb Archives Special Collections Project ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net *********************************************************************** Notes from the Records of York County William and Mary College Quarterly Historical magazine, Vol. 23, No. 4. (Apr., 1915), pp. 272-277. NOTES FROM THE RECORDS OF YORK COUNTY (Continued from Page 213.) Whereas ffrancis Wheeler of London, Merchant being now bound a voyage to Virginia in the good ship the Honor of London whereof Capt. Thomas Harrison is Mr & whereas ye sd ffrancis and Mr John White of London Grocer doe send by ye sd shipp divers goods & marchandizes packed toyeyer as by ye bills of invoyces yereof is signified and alsoe servants whereof one of yem is ye servant of sd John White. And whereas the sd ffrancis Wheeler may happ to dye in ye sd voyage, now yerefore yey the sd ffrancis Wheeler & John White doe by yese prsents assigne auyorize & appoynt Anyony Stanford factor for Wm Allen marchant in case ye sd ffrancis Wheeler dy to be yere attor: factor & deputy to unlade ye sd goods & marchandize when yey come to Virginia & to traficke with & dispose of ye same toyeyer with ye servants afforesd & to shippe & returne ye pduce & trafficke yereof to London to be consigned to ye sd John White for & to ye use of him ye sd John White & ffr Wheeler, there execrs & assignes respectively and alsoe to demande & geyer uppp all debts due ye sd Mr John White and to give & make acquitances for ye same. And so doe all yings ells needful about ye prmises as fully & effectually as if ye sd ffr Wheeler doe live and weare yere psonally present all wch ye sd ffr Wheeler & John White doe hereby ratifie & confirme, given under yere hands & seales dated at London yis 16 day of Sept. 1646. ffr Wheeler, ye seale John White, ye seale Sealed and deliv. in the prsence of John Eldred, ffrancis Cooper. Att a Court holden for the County of Yorke Co. No ye 30, 1647. Whereas it appearey to ye Court by sufficient p'ffe that James Pinor servant to Capt. William Taylor hay severall types absented himselfe from his Mrs service by running away by whc Page 273. meanes it appearey yat ye sd Capt Taylor hay been much damnified by ye losse of many of his catle wch weare committed to ye care & keeping of sd Pinor. This Court doy yerefore order that ye sd James Pinor shall accord- ing to act of Assembly in such cases prvided make ye sd Capt. William Tayler satifacon for his absenting himselfe from his servis in running away by serveing ye sd Capt. William Taylor one compleat yeare after he is free by his Indenture or oyer Covenant. It is ordered that there bee levyed in yis County of Yorke the sume of seaventeene thousand five hundred & sixty pounds of tob. & that yere be pd out of ye same these sevrall sumes to ye p'sons hereing specified as followeth by the sevrall collectors appoynted by ye sd Assmbly for yis County whoe are authorized to rec. the same vizt: To pay to David doehart for keeping the ferry in Hamp- ton prish the yeare 1647 by sume of 250 To Dictoris Christmas for keeping ye ferry in New Po- quosin 0700 To John Wilson for keeping ye ferry at Yorke 300 To Richard Hopkins for his boate kept for ye County service 0300 To Hampton Prish for arrears last years for corne to ye ferryman 0900 To William Blackley for killing a wolfe according to act 0100 To Peeter Riggby for killing a wolfe according to act 0100 To Arthur Price of Woodley his escape 0300 To Capt Christopher Calthroppe for arrears of his Burgesses charges 0480 To Mr. Robert Vaus for soe much our charged him in the Middle Plantacion servis 0180 T. Mr. Hugh Gwinn for Smith worke & accommodation to prisonrs. 1100 To Capt William Taylor for his Burgesses Charges 300 To Mr. Richard Lee for his Burgesses charges 300 To Capt John Chisman for lockes keyes & nayles for ye prison laste years 0150 To pvison to ye Collectrs 159 Page 274. ffor satistfacon whereof it is thought fitt & accordingly ordered that yere be levyed upon every tytheable prson in yis county twenty pounds of tob for every cowe fower pounds of tobacco for every horse or mare twenty seaven pounds of tob for every hundred Acres of land, & for every goate twoe pounds of tob. And for discharge of payment yereof by any pson in yis county the sevrall collectrs are hereby authorized to distrayne of ye estates of such delinquents in satisffacon of yere dues as in oyer yere collections yey are auyorized by virtue of an act of Assembly & to discharge ye creditrs herein nominated by such yere distreses as is ex- pressed in ye act of Assembly in ye like kinde whereby ye County may be discharged yereof. Cornelius Janse Braser of Rotterdam, marriner, constitutes his beloved freind Mr John Merriman "Marchant at prsent at Rotterdam" his true and lawful attorney to collect debts &c. August 1647. Cornelius Starrman of Rotterdam marriner constitutes his beloved friend Mr John Merryman &c his lawful attorney. Robt: Brock, Currurgeon's deed to Thomas Bremo and William Crouch dated 23d day of October 1647. Deed of Bernard Miller of ye Pish of Bartholomew London and inhabiting in Lond (?) lane within ye sd pish, coleman, appoints his loving friend Richard Bryan of Ratcliffe in the County of Middlesex Marriner "his true and lawful attorney &c", second day of Sept. Ano. do. 1647. Capt. John C hisman of the New Poquosin Pish gentleman release to John Adison last day of December Ano 1647. "Thomas Wallis of the County of Warwick river in Virginia, Doctor in Physic", "in consideration of six thousand pounds of tobacco", mortgages one Negro by name Sebastian, one English boy by name of Nathaniel Chambers, one Indian woman by name Marian, one great ffeather bed, boulster & pillow one mattress and one pillow a p. of Blankeets, one lesser ffeather-bed Bolster & Pillow marked with L one white Rugg & one Page 275. Blankett to have and to hold unto George Ludlow Esq. - 16th day of December 1647. I Addam Key, cordewinder of Ratliffe, doe hereby make & ordain constitute appoynt & put in my place Mr Thomas Harrison of Ratlife marriner my true and lawful attorney, &c. to aske, demand and leavy &c. of John Hamor or any one that is indebted to me in Virginia all such some or somes of Tobacco, hoggs & Catle &c. the 4th Sept. 1647. This bill bindeth me Richard Bernard of Yorke in Virginia Gent to pay or cause to be paid unto Capt Thomas Harrison of Middlesex, Gent, or his assigns for the use of the children of Will Pryor gent. deceased for thirtie fower cowes, yearlings & calves & a Boat the some of fower score & one pound of lawfull English money in or uppon the thirtieth day of May which shall be in the year of our Lord 1649 and in Case the sd some of Eightie one powndes bee not payed to the sd Thomas Harrison of his assignes at or before the sd thirtieth day of May that then this Bill bindeth me the sd Richard Bernard my executors, administrators or assignes to pay Thomas Harrison or Capt. Thomas Harwood or their Assignes for the use of the Children of Mr William Pryor deceased sixteen thousand powndes of Good & Marchantable tobacco without Ground leaves, with Caske, on the first day of Novem which shall be in the same yeare of our lord 1649. Given under my hand & seale the thirde day of January 1647. Richard Bernard, the seale. Signed, sealed and delivered in the prsents of Philip Thacker, John Hartwell. A court holden for the County of Yorke January 24th 1647 prsent Mr. John Chew, Capt. Wm Taylor, Capt. Ralph Wormeley, Mr Richard Lee, Mr Henry Lee. The Cort hath made choice of George Johnson to be constable in the place and limitts of Richard Vauson, alsoe of Robert Baldrey for the upper pts of Yorke Pish and William Tyman for the lower pte of the said Pish. And Capt. John Chisman is desired to sweare the sd Johnson, Capt. Page 276. Nicholas Martian to sweare Robt. Baldrey and Mr. John Chew to sweare William Tyman to execute yere offices in yere severall limitts. At a Court holden for the County of Yorke January 24th 1647. A suit of John Merryman vs. Walter Sensserfe "Mr of the shipp King David" dismissed. An order that Thomas Broughton who undertook to answer for a debt due by Wm Knight "at the request of Tho: Wilson Mr of ye shipp desire", pay the same to Richard Duning, Assignee of Luke Davis Administrator of ye estate of Edward Clussell to whom the debt was due. The court doy order that Mr Lewis Burwell and Richard Parrett shall apprayse ye estate of Capt. Robert Morrison dec and Mr Richard Lee is desired to give yem ye oayes for ye same. An Appraysement of the goods belonging unto ye estate of Robt Wilde as ffollowey on the 27th of Nov. 1647. lbs Imprmis 3 barrells & halfe & one bushell of corne 0300 Item twoe heifers and one Cowe Calfe 0700 Item one old flocke bedd and boulster 0080 Item two old blanketts 0080 Item one sheete 0040 Item one old coate 0040 Item one old Item one old Item one pre of Item one old shirte Item 4 yds of dutch Item one old booke Item one old drawing knife Juratr Coram Jaun; 23th 1647 ffr. Willis The Invoyces of tob and debts due to ye deceased being incerted (?) by his will as follows (Total debt due from various persons of tobacco. Page 277, Susan English's deed of gift of cattle to her children Elizabeth, William and Denis English "And whereas there will be charges in bring upp ye aforesd Children both for diett cloathing and schooling I desire it may be soe entered upon record in ye court booke yat whosoever bring upp ye children unto ye yeares of discresion with all yings necessary & fitting shall have the male catle forsoe long a tyme as ye children be with yem. Witness John Chew, Tho: Dobbs. (To be continued)