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More of 19th Quarter Court held 29th. of xth m: 1640

William Bowdish pl agt John Norman def in def in an a。 of Case. The def deposing yt he serued ye warrant yesterday att Jeffreys Creek & witnesed, & he not Coing Court saith yt vnless he pay or secure the debt an Attachmt shall be granted out.

Daniell ffairefield pl agt Zacheus Gould def a trespase Jury find for pl ffower bushells of Corne and flower shillings Costs.

John Bartall pl agt Jn Legg & Tho: Sas def in an a of 5! 10%. debt p bill. Court Reffered to m' ffowle etc.

Att Salem. the 20th

Being prsent.
Collonell Endecott

Jn

Humphreys Esq

Mr Em: Downing

Mr Wm Hathorne

Mr Edw Holliock

Mr Tho: Willes

Quarter Court Begining the 30th of first m 1641.

James Smith Junior being covented before this Court for stealing of twoe fishing lines etc.

It being Confessed. The Courts sentence is yt he pay 2

Lines for one And Twentie shillings for Loss of their tyme.

Ite. This Court orders, viz. That Thomas South is in regard of his adge etc exempted f Trayning paying 5 p A to this Court and freed f his former fines.

Upon a Complaint made agt Ric

ffowler p Obediah Holme That for Reproachfull speeches agt ye ordenance of God Namely That haueing (bepissed his bedd) sd you had best haue yt agited in your Church meetings.

The sentence of Court is yt he is to pay a fine of 40 betwixt this & the next Court|||

Diuers Complaints brought in f diuers p sons ageanst Ruben Guppi, as for running away to the Estward f his wyfe great wth Childe; for stealing & Blasfemie Lying & swearing etc. The Courts sentence That he shalbe seuerlie whipped & bound in 201 Recognizance for good behaueour & to app next Court. & bring in testimony of good behaueo or be whipped ageane.

A Complaint agt w Poole for stealing of stockings and taking away a Canooe of m' Emereys. The sentence of Court, in regard of his Lying also is yt ye sd Willi shall be whipped, & returne the stokings to th owner

Tho: Rood was he that had the stockings but he 30th of 4 m 1641 was quit in Court.

Wili Bowdish for misinforming the Court & Causing Jn Stone to be amersed 5 as in p. 44. Vniustlie. The Court therfore doth fine ye sd Bowdish in tenn shillings

More of the 20th Quarter Court: 30. of 1mo 1641

[Georg Williams about an apprentis boy Mathew Jellet, y' he should serue 2 ye's Longer. But upon francs Perry his depotition y ye Covenant was made but for seauen years & to end in March: wherfo" the Court frees the youth? but mous him to serve him for vj Moneths: & to agree them selues.]*

[Goody] The wyfe of Hugh Browne Convented for breking her husbands head & thretned yt she wold kill him, so yt her husband is euen weary of his life, she threw stons at him, and haueing caused his face to bleed, wished him hanged & called him beast & wished he might neuer come home she Confesing she had brok his face with a Chamber pott. The Courts sentence that she shalbe seuerlie whiped & being she hath beene an anoyance to neighbours she is bound to good behaueour vntill next Court. |

William Wake doth acknowledg his fault in yt he was so vaine as to defame m' pestor on so sleight grounds. [Ann Pigdon doth also*] George Williams clayminge twoe yeares service more of his sevant Mathew Jellitt. was denyed it by the Court vppon the deposition of ffrancis Perry who swore the said Jellitt was bound but for seauen yeares wherevpo" the said Jellet was freed from his service. but willed by the Court vpon his masters requests to serue him half a yeare vpo" such wages as they themselues could agree on

generall Towne meeting appointed to be warned about a free skoole. the second day of the weeke.

Widow Baker & Nathaneel Pittman there acs examined. & depositions Concerning the same.

Vpon a generall request (arising fr m' ffreind his damag in his Corne,) through defect of mens fences. The Court ordered That all who weare defitient in their fencs on the south syde of the South ffield, shall make good Thirtie shillings vnto m' ffreind & yt the ffencs are to be made good, both on that, p't next to the Towne & meeting house, as

The entries in italics and within brackets are cancelled in the record.

well as those ffenes on the South side for the p'uenting of damages on one end as well as on the other.

Att Salem More of the 20th Quarter Court, y 30th of 1. moneth. 1641.

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John Bartall reuiued an ac entred the Last Court agt John Legg & Tho: Sams wch was reffered to mr ffouls. Now m' Downing pmised to see this matte ended betwixt both pties.

Ric! Hollinworth pl agt Edmund Woodley def in an ac of Case. The def. not appring, & affidauit made that he was warned, Therfore grant out an attachmt agt him, if you find an atachm to

not his pson yet to take his goods. gr: about app at the next Court.

William Pester pl agt Ann Pigdon & will, Wake deft in an ac。 of deffamac testis. Jury find for pl damages agt w wake Three pounds and agt Ann Pigdon Thirtie shillings And ye Costs of Court to be paid betwixt them. & further to make their acknowledgm's according to the discretion of le Court. but the Court orders yt it be pd betwixt this & next court.

Mathew Williams plagt Susan Greene vidues def in an acon of the Case. The Court orders Jn? Woodbury to put an end to this busines. William ffisk pl agt Mathew Waler deft in ac of Case Jury finde for ye pl for the house he hired Twentie shillings Three shillings witneses & flyve shillings Costs. and to finish the house within 14 days or elce by liable to all damages & the breking of the axes to answer wm fisks seruant Loss of tyme goeing so farr further to work y" he needed to haue done. |

Joseph Harrington seruant to Cp. Keane plagt Thomas Keysar of Lynn deft in an ac, of debt of 32s 109 viz 12 wherof being discounted. The deft acknowledgeth a iudgmt for Twentie shillings 10 & the Costs of Court.

The Court respits ye execution for 14. days.

Georg Willia, p! agt Jn Pickworth def! in ac of Case, Jury find for p! 338 4 wch they conceiue a 3a prt of the timber, & Costs of Court. 5:

† sic.

The 21th Quarter Court att Salem, held 29th of 4 m° Ann. 1641,

Being prsent

Jno Endecott dept Gournr

Jno Humphreys Esqr &

or Sargant maior generall}

mr Emanuell Downing

Mr Wil: Hathorne.

Mr Edw: Holliocke.

Mr Tho: Willes.

Thomas Gardener through Clemency of the Court but fined 2 64 for absence fr Jury.

Joseph Armetage had also 25 6 of his fine remitted, It being before 5 Ibid for absence fr Jury) 29 of xth mo 1640. Mr. Walter Price brought In:

A note or Invoice of certen Cloaths etc. Left by one John Watkins deseased (who was seruant vnto mr Walter Price.) was p'sented in Court, And Mr Price haueing beene att Chardgs of his passidg & otherwaies And not haueing had any seruice of him to any vallew — The Court ordered yt the Goods of the s John Watkins being to the vallew of ffiue pounds ffower shillings & tenn pence shalbe to thvse, & be accompted the pp goods of the sd Walter Price in considera of the p'mises.

William Knight Constable of Lynn brought in a complaint for a deffect in the Constabls of Lynn in not deliuering In Accompts.

The Answer of the Court is that it cannot be vntill they haue Chose Townsmen to direct warrants vnto.

John Cook (vpon his m' Clarks good report) is discharged of his recognizance for good behaueour. |

30th of 4th m 1641.

The Court ordered Concerning ffenceing. That y Creeke Leading vp to Clay brooke ageanst mr Stilmans Lott, shall be forthwith mended in those places wher it is not suffitient ageanst great Catle, & yt what damadg shall come to any man by their comeing ouer there, shalbe borne by [ye whole ffencs* of] all those who haue interest the Com ffencs.

The words in brackets and italics are cancelled in the record.

[To be continued.]

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A PAPER READ AT THE FIELD MEETING OF THE ESSEX INSTITUTE, AT GLOUCESTER, SEPT. 14TH, 1866.

STAPLE

BY ROBERT S. RANTOUL.

If Massachusetts ever had a tutelary genius amongst the brute creation, it was the codfish. No member of the animal kingdom has been so conspicuous in the civil history of the colony,-none contributed more largely to our early material success. Many a colossal fortune rested, for its foundation, upon the cod fisheries of the Banks and of Massachusetts Bay; though not every successful adventurer made so conspicuous recognition of the fact as did Col. Benjamin Pickman of Salem, judge, legislator and executive councillor, who in erecting, in 1743, the Mansion House now standing, and adjoining the East India Marine Museum upon Essex Street, decorated the end of every stair in his spacious hall with a carved and gilded codfish.

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