Court records from 17th-century Kent County, Maryland, arranged by theme.

Transcribed and compiled by Dr. Alexa Cawley, Ph.D.

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Homeowner Name	Morgan	Henry	Date of Event	11/29/1655
Attendants			Spouse
Purpose	sues forpayment for keeping, caring for and burying Valerus Leo		Children
Description 1	"for the tyme of Eaight weeckes hee harbored in his house, Cherist and kept with meat drincke & Atendance in the tyme of his sickes Valueris Leo & was at Charges for funerall Expences; Morgan paud 600 lbs of tobacco
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			Source	LIV 35

Homeowner Name	Wickes	Joseph	Date of Event	11/1655
Attendants			Spouse
Purpose	Edward Tarrent's will thanks Wickes "for his tender care of mee in my sickess", appoints him overseer of his estate; was this in Wickes or Tarrent's home?		Children
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			Source	LIV 39

Homeowner Name	Winchester	John	Date of Event	6/1/1661 court date
Attendants	John Dobbes; Goody barnes, Sarah Raby, John Morgan Jr., John Winchester Jr., Grance Granger, William Granger (not of Kent); William Hemsley,		Spouse	Margrett Winchester
Purpose	John Winchester sues Esabela Barnes; testimony at time of death of Margrett Winchester to determine whether she was cared for appropriately or abused in any way;		Children	John Winchester Jr,
Description 1	John Dobbes saud he was in the house for 3 days and nights before she died and there was no ill usage and that she wanted for nothing; John Morgan Jr. said that Goody Barnes and Sarah Raby were there one night, Morgan watched one night til the cocks crow
Description 2	and Winchester and his son watched the other part of the night and she wanted for nothing; Winchester Jr. said there was "sacke and drames and beare in the house and that she had preuons and spice"; Grace Granger said she :wanted for nothinge neither
Description 3	poultry stweed with butter & Currents and she wase shifted and teneded and hur husand wase as kind to hur as any man Could be to his wife", they were there a fortnight and she ahd "sacke and drames and beare to Drinke when she would & Candels and she had
Description 4	a mind to a Duck and John winchester killed on for hur & I Dresed it", Wm. Granger said they went over to Kent and were asked to stay until Winchester's wife was well, one night Margett wanted to go to her husband but Granger felt she was too ill so he
Description 5	said he would tie her to the bed; Hemsley was there the day she died and she said she had "sacke & Drames and neare and seugare plentifull"
			Source	LIV 222-223