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

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

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1st Partner	Dabbs	John	2nd Partner	Witherell	Thomas
Date Recorded	3/1/1655/56		Source	LIV 58, 112
Type of Partnership	share plantation
Land Claim Together
Plantation Shared	"A Certaine Plantation, Containge One hundred Ackers, bee it more or lesse, bounded upon Coxes Creecke, and now in the possession of the sd Jn Dabbs and Tho: Witherell
Work
Cattle
Others Involved	Martin and Reed forgive a 1500 lb debt incurred in 1656 on 5/1/1657
End of Partnership

1st Partner	Erickson	John	2nd Partner	Tarrent	Edward
Date Recorded	10/22/1655		Source	LIV 54; Liber A fol 116?
Type of Partnership	divide land
Land Claim Together	did land belong to tarrant and Leeds or Tarrant and Erickson?
Plantation Shared	100 acres shared between them; Agreement deuiginge of the Land betwixt thm viz wch is to say, tht the sd Erickson is to haue his halfe of the hundred Ackers of Land tht was betwixt Wm Leeds & the afforesd Tarrant upon the Northeast end of the sd Land
Work	Erickson binds himself to clear & fenced land, has 3000 corn holes & 6000 tobacco hills unfenced, to bear equal charge and to build a 40 x 20 foot walplate tobacco house by the last of March if "nailes are to be gott
Cattle
Others Involved	William Leeds land abuts theirs
End of Partnership

1st Partner	Erickson	John	2nd Partner	Tarrent	Edward
Date Recorded	10/22/1655		Source	LIV 54
Type of Partnership	plantation?
Land Claim Together
Plantation Shared	Tarrent and Erickson agree to divide land between them, "Erickson to have his hald of the hundred acres of land tht was beetwixt Wm. Leeds & the afforesd Tarrent upon the Northeast end of the sd Land & tht the afforesd doth bind himseld to do his Equal
Work	share in Clearinge & fencinge ground tht may Contraine 3000 Corne holes & 6000 Tobacoe hilles unfenced & lickwise to beare the Equall Charge in buildinge a wlaplate tobaco house of fourtie Foote longe & twentie foote wide to be pformed by the sd Tarrent
Cattle
Others Involved	William leedes
End of Partnership	look for more in tarrent death

1st Partner	Gibson	John	2nd Partner	Stoupe	Henry
Date Recorded	8/1/1657		Source	LIV 112-113
Type of Partnership	plantation
Land Claim Together
Plantation Shared	sd plantation lying and adjoining unto Winchester's plantation on the northeast side of this island and upon the south side of Winchester's plantation, rent of a bushel and a half of corn per year
Work
Cattle
Others Involved	John Winchester sells them 100 acres of land
End of Partnership

1st Partner	Hanson	Andrew	2nd Partner	Leo & Swanson	Valerus and Swan
Date Recorded	8/1655		Source	LIV 31-32, Liber A fol 102;
Type of Partnership	share crop
Land Claim Together
Plantation Shared
Work
Cattle
Others Involved	James Horner sues for payment for 14 days work done; Henery Morgan sues for 10 days work and diet
End of Partnership

1st Partner	Harris	George	2nd Partner	Cooper	John
Date Recorded	3/30/1669		Source	LIV 259
Type of Partnership	planting
Land Claim Together
Plantation Shared
Work
Cattle
Others Involved
End of Partnership	Cooper sues for parcel of corn which is awarded by court, record then shows a suit between them being referred to a jury and the jury awarding Cooper a part of the corn and tobacco crops

1st Partner	Heuett	Robert	2nd Partner	Bellamy	Henry
Date Recorded	1/21/1641		Source	LIV 20
Type of Partnership	land
Land Claim Together
Plantation Shared	sell point of land next to mouth of Crany Neck to Roger Baxter provided Baxter have "sufficient timber to build a dwelling house and free inlett and outlett for his hoggs all the Year"; retain right of first refusal if Baxter sells it; Baxter plantation
Work
Cattle
Others Involved
End of Partnership

1st Partner	Hill	Thomas	2nd Partner	Benton	Marke
Date Recorded	8/7/1655		Source	LIV 29-30; Liber A fol 101
Type of Partnership	share cow and her offsrping
Land Claim Together
Plantation Shared
Work
Cattle	a female yearlinge which was the calfe of a Cow caled melinos the sayd Calfe beeing Coulered blacke and a little brounish the left eare Cropt and underkeeld and the Right ear slitt in the midle
Others Involved
End of Partnership	partnership for 7 years at which time Benton gets cow and they split the value of any offspring

1st Partner	Ilive	Isaac	2nd Partner	Clay	Henry
Date Recorded	8/12/1656		Source	LIV 68
Type of Partnership	land
Land Claim Together	if Wade knows ahead of time, if Ilive couldn't make the saleto South, then bargain to be null and void
Plantation Shared	Blunt testifies that South bought the plantation Ilive lives on for 4000 lbs; accepted by Ilive in bills; Ilive and Clay to make crops on it present year, Ilive asked secresy b/c he engaged himself to South to buy Zachary Wade's part & fears price raised
Work
Cattle
Others Involved	Richard Blunt deposition, Mr. South
End of Partnership

1st Partner	Jenkins	John	2nd Partner	Goot	Henery
Date Recorded	12/20/1656		Source	LIV 79-80; Liber B fol 3
Type of Partnership	Land lease from Capt. John Russell
Land Claim Together
Plantation Shared	15 year lease of Russell plantation; "Plantation And land which lieth Adioyning vnto John Winchesters Vpon The Noerth east sied of This island with all the housing orchard & prviledgis" also houehold stuff listed
Work	"To Build a Dwelling house of Thurty futt long with Two Chimnies and eightenn futt wied he The sd Capt Russekk finding Nayells which is in Lew of This yeares Rentt"
Cattle	also let 5 "Cowes or heffers in calfe for The full Time Afore sd with all The femall Increese Dewering the sd Times:... And further more I doe lett A persell of hogges vnto Them As They are her vnder Mentioned a lest for There proper Vsse"
Others Involved	Capt. John Russell's of Ile of Kent plantation; 200 acre Northeast Thicket?
End of Partnership

1st Partner	Jones	William	2nd Partner	Lumbard	Frances
Date Recorded	5/16/?		Source	LIV 18
Type of Partnership	shared land
Land Claim Together
Plantation Shared	Robert short sold them his 50+ acre patent at Messon Freehold, they sold it to Thomas Belcher 6/22/1651
Work
Cattle
Others Involved
End of Partnership	Lumbard committed suicide in 1653 and the entry for the sale of this patent includes Thomas Pett as an administrator and is registered 6/1/1653

1st Partner	Kent	Robert	2nd Partner	Ashbury	Frances
Date Recorded	3/28/1671		Source	LIV 313-314
Type of Partnership	plantation
Land Claim Together
Plantation Shared	pcel of land called Stermans: Ashbury to have west side of land from mouth of Oyster Creek to head of that branch next the bay side, to marked sassafras at the head of the little old field and from there NW to a marked black oake then West to bay side
Work	Kent to have his part of cleared ground according to agreement & a fifteen foot house on the said Dauis & Ashbury's part, Ashbury to clear corn field and plant it this year on Kent's part; give each other hunting, fishing, fowling and landing boats, free
Cattle	to each have free priveledge of the stock
Others Involved	John Davis: descirbes part of plantation as Dauis and Ashbury's part; Robert kent and Arthur Wright give free consent for Ashbury to sell his part of land to John Dauis with all priveleges
End of Partnership

1st Partner	Leedes	William	2nd Partner	Tarrant	Edward
Date Recorded	11/28/1655		Source	LIV 44, 53, 54; Liber A fol 116
Type of Partnership	share purchase of cattle
Land Claim Together
Plantation Shared	do they share a plantation, see deal between John Erickson and Ed tarrent (LIV 54)
Work
Cattle	share purchase of cattle from Robert Martine
Others Involved	purchase cattle from Robert Martine who then forgives debt; sued by George Hall for debt in 1656
End of Partnership	when Tarrant dies, William Leeds and Tarrant are called for to pay debts out of the estate, Wickes as executor is ordered to pay those debts and indemnify Leeds from them

1st Partner	Martin	Robert	2nd Partner	Reed	Matthew
Date Recorded	5/1/1657		Source	LIV 112
Type of Partnership	debt
Land Claim Together
Plantation Shared
Work
Cattle
Others Involved	forgive debt incurred by John Dobb and Thomas Wetherell for 1500 lbs of tobacco
End of Partnership

1st Partner	Martine	Robert	2nd Partner	Ashley	Henry
Date Recorded	8/11/1656; signed 10/11/1656		Source	LIV 91; Liber B folio 10
Type of Partnership	land and cattle for 3 years
Land Claim Together	look to see
Plantation Shared	"an equal Copartnershipe, in all the stocke of Cattell hoggs & Land, Crops of Tobacco & Corne. . .
Work	an equal Copartnershipe, in all the stocke of Cattell hoggs & Land, Crops of Tobacco & Corne
Cattle	an equal Copartnershipe, in all the stocke of Cattell hoggs & Land
Others Involved	witnessed by Thomas South and John Dabes
End of Partnership	at the end of the sd three yeares, if the aboue named pties doe Joyntly agree to breack of their Copartnership tht then there shall bee an equal diuission of theire estate, of Cattell hoggs Land & Crops"; if agreed can continue indefinitely

1st Partner	Martine	Robert	2nd Partner	Ashley	Henery
Date Recorded	8/11/1656;signed 10/11/1656		Source	LIV 91; Liber B fol 10;
Type of Partnership	land, cattle & hogs
Land Claim Together
Plantation Shared
Work	"bynd ourselves in the forteture of fiue thousand pounds of good tobacco & Caske to hould & Continnue in an equal Copartnershipe, in all the stocke of Cattell hoggs & Land, Crops of Tobacco & Corne . . .
Cattle	Martine reserves three cows to himself for his children
Others Involved	witnesses John Dabb and Thomas South
End of Partnership	"at the end of the sd three yeares, if the aboue named pties doe Joyntly agree to breack of theire Copartnershipe, tht then thereare shall be an equall diuission of theire estates, of Cattell hoggs Land & Cropps" or continue for as long as they agree

1st Partner	Osbourne	Thomas	2nd Partner	Ayeres	Luther
Date Recorded	4/27/1660		Source	LIV 218
Type of Partnership	share plantation
Land Claim Together	purchase plantation from Thomas Wetherly for 5000 lbs tobacco
Plantation Shared	agree to share plantation and debts incurred by either; upon marriage the plantation to be divided equally; in case of death, the other to enjoy the whole plantation
Work
Cattle
Others Involved	purchase plantation from Thomas Wetherly for 5000 lbs tobacco
End of Partnership

1st Partner	Rogers	Edd	2nd Partner	Blunt	Rich
Date Recorded	11/1/1659		Source	LIV 175
Type of Partnership	use of land
Land Claim Together
Plantation Shared
Work
Cattle
Others Involved	debt to John Dabb promises payment from crop on Richard Blunts plantation, debt of 1014 lbs of tobacco, promises entire crop
End of Partnership

1st Partner	Salter	John	2nd Partner	Price	William
Date Recorded			Source	LIV 28, 51
Type of Partnership	shared house & family
Land Claim Together
Plantation Shared	owe a debt to Henry Morgan teogether, bind their crop grown at their plantation at Crayford fort (8/1655_
Work
Cattle
Others Involved	Jane Salter, Salter's wife
End of Partnership	when Salter and Price are accused and convicted of hogg theft, part of their punishment is that Price can no longer live with the Salters

1st Partner	Salter	John	2nd Partner	Deare	John
Date Recorded	2/28/1654		Source	LIV 49
Type of Partnership	debt
Land Claim Together
Plantation Shared
Work
Cattle
Others Involved	sued by Thomas Hinson as High Sheriff on behalf of Lord Proprietor for 700 lbs of tobacco, bill datted 2/28/1654
End of Partnership

1st Partner	Smith	Zephaniah	2nd Partner	Chandler	Wm
Date Recorded	2/12/1652		Source	LIV 11
Type of Partnership	debt
Land Claim Together	share a servant and own a plantation, is the land shared?
Plantation Shared	Smith binds over planation which was formerly Mr. Phillpott's to satisfy debt of 1500 lbs of tobacco to Mr. Brown on Kent, debt of both Smith and Chandler "stood by bill bound for to pay. . . which was a satisfaction for a servant"
Work
Cattle
Others Involved
End of Partnership

1st Partner	Stoope	Henry	2nd Partner	Gibson	John
Date Recorded	12/1/1659 part of land sold		Source	LIV 179: liber B folio 68
Type of Partnership	share land called Stoopelee Gibson
Land Claim Together
Plantation Shared	300 acres Stoopelee Gibson
Work
Cattle
Others Involved
End of Partnership

1st Partner	Wetherill	Thomas	2nd Partner	Dabb	John
Date Recorded	2/16/58		Source	LIV 162
Type of Partnership	land and cattle/plantation
Land Claim Together
Plantation Shared	Wetherill agrees to give up interest in 100 acre plantation and cattle to Dabb for 10,000 lbs of tobacco to be paid yearly in 1000 lbs starting in 1640?
Work
Cattle	14 head of cattle included (see cattle sales)
Others Involved
End of Partnership