Provincial Court Proceedings, 1666. 43

      Thomas South affirmes this, onely saith hee doth not positiuely Liber FF
     remember wether hee were to returne land or rights to land, but he
     thinketh it was onely rights to land
      James Ringgold knowes nothing of it,

      Wether yow did not heare Mr Ringgold agree that Mr Hinson
     should haue the Northermost End of the 1200 acres and that Mr
     Hinson named it Huntingfeild beginning att a marked Pine at the
     mouth of a Creeke, Called by Mr Hinson Huntingfeild Creeke
      James Ringgold affirmes it upon Condicon to haue land
     Thomas South Affirmes it, onely was not prsent at the marking of
     the tree

      Wether yow doe not know that Hinsons halfe was seperated from
     the said mr Thomas Ringgolds by a markt tree neer the middle of
     the land by agreemt betweene themselues
      Thomas South affirmes it
      James Ringgold affirmes it

      Wether this Agreemt was not then made upon the land, and many [p. 257]
     times rehearst after, that the said Mr Ringgold would prforme it,
     and M' Hinson on his part, and that thereupon the said Mr Ringgold
     and Mr Hinson went immediately downe to St Marys where Mr
     Robert Clarke Surueyr Generall did Confirme the marking & pacing
     the land out and afterwards Confirmed by Order of Court at seuerne
     upon a Tryall betwixt Mr Ringgold and Capt wicks
      Thomas South affirmes it
      James Ringgold affirmes it but upon Condicon to haue land

      Wether yow did not euer heare Mr Ringgold rehearse the Agreemt
     before yow before theire goeing downe to St Marys presently after
     the marking and laying out of the land the first time
      Thomas South affirmes it
      James Ringgold knowes not

      Wether yow haue not often heard mr Hinson demand the aforesd
     agreemt of mr Ringgould
      Thomas South denyes it
      James Ringgold denys it as here pen'd but only upon Condicon
     to haue other land

      Wether yow did not heare mr Ringgold agree, That if Mr Hinson
     would giue him a hhd of tobaccoe that hee would performe the
     Agreemt or mr Thomas Ringgold would giue Mastr Thomas Hinson
     a hhd of tobaccoe to let it alone
      Thomas South knowes nothing of it
      James Ringgold saith the proporticon of one hhd of tob: was in
     Case the One half e should proue better then the other