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out ye lett trouble, contradiccon, denyall, mollestacon, pturbacon evic- 
tion or ejeccon of me ye s“. Capt. GERARD HAwTAINE, my heires, 
executors, administ"™., or assigns, or any other pson or psOns what- 
soev', lawfully, clayminge, or p"tendinge to have any right, title, or 
interest of or in ye sd, pbargained, pmisses or any p*. or pcell. thereof, 
from, by, or, through mine, or theire assent, consent, or pairem', Pro- 
vided allwayes that if ye s¢, GzerARD Hawraine shall pay or cause to 
be pa. unto ye st, JONATHAN HAwTAINE, twelve thousand and eight 
hundred pounds of well cleared cotton at or upon the five and twentith 
day of March next, ensueinge the date of theise p'sents that then the 
prmisses of this Bill of Sale shall be utterly voyd or els to stand in full 
force, effe€t and vertue. In witness whereof, I have hereunto sett my 
hand and seale this second day of February in ye yeare of OF Lord God 
one thousand six hundred forty and three. 
GERRARD HAWTAINE, 
Sig*. sealed and dd. in pnce of 
DANIEL WIGHT, 
JOHN HOLMES. 
On the 17 March 1643, JONATHAN HAWTAINE and 
“Left.” JOHN HOLMES bought from CHRISTOPHER 
NEVISON two boys named JOHN PAYNE and JOHN 
SMYTH. The terms of the deed of sale which is 
witnessed by DANIELL WIGHT and GEORGE WOOD, 
Notaries Public, are extremely quaint. 
lu the same month, a further purchase was made by 
the same persons from CHRISTOPHER NEVISON of “ tenne 
assinecoes, one mare and one horse’ for which they 
agreed to pay “ nyne thousand fower hundred pounds of 
“ sound and marchantable Tobacco in Rowle.’’ So that 
these animals were worth five times as much as the two 
boys. 
It will be observed that the purchasers of the boys 
“stand to the hazzard of their lives’ as indeed they do 
with respe€t to the “‘ assinicoes &c.” : 
Received by us JONATHAN HawTAINE and Leift. Joun Houmes of 
