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

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

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Servant Name	??	John (a Dutchman)	Master Name	Clapham	William	Date	6/28/1655
Event	Clapham gives Henry Carline and William Elliott permission to apprehend runaway servants;					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age
Others Involved						Source	LIV 28; Liber A fol. 100

Servant Name	a maid of Thomas Ward		Master Name	Ward	Thomas	Date	11/1652
Event	"'Thos. Ringgold, aged 43 years,' deposed, that about the 1st of the preceding July, he heard Wm. Jones at Thos. Hinson's house, say that he would question Thos. Ward, about the death of his 'maid' for he would bring him to his twelve God fathers. . .					Servant Sex	female
						Servant Age
Others Involved						Source	LIV 10; Liber A folio 57

Servant Name	Anderson	Margaret	Master Name	Vaughan	Robert	Date	1/1/1657
Event	servant contract for 4 years, with permission of her parents, in exchange Vaughan promises to deliver to her father in law for her use one good cow w/calfe which Vaughan will watch over until she comes of age, also meat, drinke, apparel and lodging					Servant Sex	female
						Servant Age
Others Involved	Contract signed by Thomas Wetherill, John Salter, Andrew Anderson and Annecke Elinor; Andrew Elinor is her father in law?					Source	LIV 124-125; Liber B folio 19

Servant Name	Balie	Margret	Master Name	??		Date	12/1655
Event	witness in the John Salter hog theft case; married Thomas Hill Jr. in 1656; a Mary Bally with 6 months left to serve in listed in Thomas Hawkins estate on 3/30/1656					Servant Sex	female
						Servant Age	21
Others Involved						Source	LIV 38, 50, 102; Liber A folio 115

Servant Name	Bally	Mary	Master Name	Hawkins	Thomas	Date	3/30/1656
Event	listed as having 6 months 1/2 to serve in Thomas Hawkins estate appraisal, valued at 600 lbs					Servant Sex	female
						Servant Age
Others Involved						Source	LIV 102

Servant Name	Barnes	John	Master Name	Morgan	Henry	Date	10/1/1661
Event	Morgan claims he did not take up land rights for land that belonged to his servant (plus 2 other William Rennoulds and Janne Seares)					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age
Others Involved						Source	LIV 228

Servant Name	Benton	Mark	Master Name	Vaughan	Robert	Date	1652
Event	Benton "petitioned against Robt Vaughan for order from the Court for his freedom, with corne and clothes" court decided in his favor					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age
Others Involved						Source	LIV 9; Liber A folio 52

Servant Name	Boise	Robert	Master Name	Pyne	Francis	Date	1/26/1670-71
Event	mentioned in testimony regarding a fight between Christopher Goodhand and Will Davis					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age
Others Involved						Source	LIV 310-311

Servant Name	Bradly	Thomas	Master Name	Williams	Thomas	Date	3/8/1660
Event	sells his servant to John Winchester					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age
Others Involved	witnesses are William Granger and Andrew Ellenor					Source

Servant Name	Brigs	Jane	Master Name	Lovely	Deliverance	Date	1/21/1660
Event	rented out with Lovely's plantation to Thomas Bennett					Servant Sex	female
						Servant Age
Others Involved	John Sylvester also rented out					Source	LIV 201-202

Servant Name	Brookes	Francis	Master Name	Wickes	Joseph	Date	3/2/1657
Event	enters land rights for transporting servant into colony in 1656					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age
Others Involved						Source	LIV 127: Liber B folio 17

Servant Name	Brookes	Tho:	Master Name	Wickes	Joseph	Date	3/2/1657
Event	enters land rights for transporting servant into colony in 1656					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age
Others Involved						Source	LIV 127: Liber B folio 17

Servant Name	Calloway	Anthony	Master Name	Brodnox	Thomas	Date	10/11/1656; 12/1656
Event	Broadnox says Calloway conditioned to serve for last year but didn't; witnesses (Thomas Hinson, Henry Carline) said that at time agreement made, Calloway was concerned that he was indentured to John Deare already; Court orders Calloway to serve the year					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age
Others Involved						Source	LIV 73, 76; Liber A folio 125-26; Liber B folio 1

Servant Name	Calloway	Anthonie	Master Name	Deare	John	Date	12/1655
Event	Deare "complained Against Anthonie Calloway for seruice due to him by Condition from the sd Anthonie" Calloway confessed, ordered to perform his service according to Condition					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age
Others Involved						Source	LIV 49; Liber A folio 114

Servant Name	Calloway	Anthony	Master Name	Brodnox	Tho	Date	11/29/1655
Event	complains for tobacco owing to hm "for worke done in his Crope part by the moneth & sume part in sayes work"; Court orders payment of 418 lbs of tobacco					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age
Others Involved						Source	LIV 34; Liber A folio 104

Servant Name	Colleman	William	Master Name	Foster	Seth	Date	10/1/1661
Event	brought to court for registration b/c had no indenture					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age	10
Others Involved						Source	LIV 228

Servant Name	Courttier	Will	Master Name	Hawkins	Thomas	Date	3/30/1656
Event	listed in Hawkins estate appraisal as a runaway with 2 years to serve, no value given					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age
Others Involved						Source	LIV 102

Servant Name	Crosse	William	Master Name	Harris	George	Date	8/23/1670
Event	Crosse, through his attorney, appeals for a jury trial to decide if he has a 4 or 5 year indenture; jury finds in his favor; master to pay 10 pounds sterling with costs of suit; defendant asks for appeal to Provincial Court					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age
Others Involved	Jury list - see servant complaine					Source	LIV 293-4

Servant Name	Daiues	Will	Master Name	Wickes	Joseph	Date	3/2/1657
Event	enters land rights for transporting servant into colony in 1650					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age
Others Involved						Source	LIV 127: Liber B folio 17

Servant Name	Deare	Christiann	Master Name	Dunn	Robert	Date	6/30/1668
Event	Christian Deare, daughter of John Deare deceased ordered to serve Dunn for 4 years or until she marries, bond of security for the orphan's cattle is delivered to Dunn					Servant Sex	female
						Servant Age
Others Involved						Source	LIV 247

Servant Name	Dee	James	Master Name	Benton	Mark	Date	6/30/1668
Event	ordered to serve 7 years according to law					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age
Others Involved						Source	LIV 246

Servant Name	Dickes	Thomas	Master Name	Bradnox	Thomas	Date	10/19/1657
Event	testifies in trial regarding Salter sleeping with Bradnox's wife					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age	21 (1657)
Others Involved						Source	LIV 117; Liber B folio 22

Servant Name	Eles	Elizabeth	Master Name	Wickes	Joseph	Date	3/2/1657
Event	enters land rights for transporting servant into colony in 1657, her death was recorded in 1658					Servant Sex	female
						Servant Age
Others Involved						Source	LIV 127: Liber B folio 17

Servant Name	Ewens	Mary	Master Name	Burton	Edmond	Date	6/30/1668
Event	brought to court to registered, ordered to serv 5 years					Servant Sex	female
						Servant Age
Others Involved	also registered Humphrey Hubbert					Source	LIV 246

Servant Name	Farington	Thomas	Master Name	Conner	Philip	Date	1/10/1652
Event	Farington died when he went on the ice to retrieve a goose shot by Goodman Burton; fell into the ice and drowned, jury empanelled to investigate death; testimony from Christian Hill (Tho Hill's wife); ruled an accident					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age
Others Involved						Source	LIV 7,10; Hansen Old Kent pp 24-27

Servant Name	Fletcher	William	Master Name	Conier		Date	9/1655
Event	sued for debt by Thomas Hill, debt incurred while in Conier's service					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age
Others Involved						Source	LIV 36

Servant Name	Ganeere	Elizabeth	Master Name	Clapham	William	Date	6/28/1655
Event	Clapham gives Henry Carline and William Elliott permission to apprehend runaway servants;					Servant Sex	female
						Servant Age
Others Involved						Source	LIV 28; Liber A fol. 100

Servant Name	Gold	Ann	Master Name	Wickes	Joseph	Date	3/2/1657
Event	enters land rights for transporting servant into colony in 1655					Servant Sex	female
						Servant Age
Others Involved	also transported in a Negro in 1655					Source	LIV 127: Liber B folio 17

Servant Name	Gold	Mary	Master Name	Morgan	Henry	Date	11/15/1658
Event	demands acreage for transportation to the colony					Servant Sex	female
						Servant Age
Others Involved						Source	LIV 144: Liber B folio 45

Servant Name	Goodhand	Christopher	Master Name	Pyne	Francis	Date	10/11/1670
Event	Pyne appoints "well beloved seruant" Goodhand to be his lawful attorney on all matters, esp.debt & looking after his household; power to "buy all Priusion & other nessaries for the use of my house, to looke after & order my sarusants, as he see Fitt"					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age
Others Involved	witnessed by John Norwood and Toby Appleford					Source	LIV 303-304

Servant Name	Goothward	John	Master Name	Clapham	William	Date	6/28/1655
Event	Clapham gives Henry Carline and William Elliott permission to apprehend runaway servants; Goothward has a wife, Marie					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age
Others Involved						Source	LIV 28; Liber A fol. 100

Servant Name	Goothward	Marie	Master Name	Clapham	William	Date	6/28/1655
Event	Clapham gives Henry Carline and William Elliott permission to apprehend runaway servants; Goothward has a husband James					Servant Sex	female
						Servant Age
Others Involved						Source	LIV 28; Liber A fol. 100

Servant Name	Gould	John	Master Name	Carleyn	Mr	Date	6/1652?
Event	"That your deponent did carry home a suit of curtains to Francis Brights, by order from his master, Mr Carlyen: after which time your dependent did see about hald a yard of Francis Brights' stuff at his master's house"					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age	40
Others Involved						Source	LIV 6; Hansen Old kent p.22

Servant Name	Gould	Anne	Master Name	Owines	Mr?	Date	4/30/1656
Event	Gould attacked and raped by Owines and given a disease "which abuse was after hee Receiud the goods for her of Mr Weickes					Servant Sex	female
						Servant Age	23 yrs
Others Involved						Source	LIV 69; Liver A folio 123

Servant Name	Grinley	Hanna	Master Name	Morgan	Henry	Date	4/15/59
Event	Morgan demands rights to land for transporting servant to colony					Servant Sex	female
						Servant Age
Others Involved						Source	LIV 163

Servant Name	Guinn	Thomas	Master Name	Head	William	Date	9/27/1670
Event	brought to court for running away for 34 days, ordered to serve 340 extra and 10 lashes on bare back for stealing people's canoes from landings					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age
Others Involved						Source	LIV 297

Servant Name	Gunseill	James	Master Name	Carline	Henry	Date	11/30/1655
Event	Carline sells interest that Thomas Hawkines had in servant to John Deare					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age
Others Involved						Source	LIV 68; Liber A folio 123

Servant Name	Hemsley	Will	Master Name	Bradnox	Thomas	Date	12/20/1660
Event	testified in Sutheren's suit for freedom from Bradnox					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age	26 (1660)
Others Involved						Source	LIV 191

Servant Name	Henfrey	thomas	Master Name	Wright	Thomas	Date	6/30/1668
Event	ordered to serve 6 years according to law					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age
Others Involved						Source	LIV 246

Servant Name	Hill	Margaret	Master Name	Morgan	Henry	Date	11/15/1658
Event	demands acreage for transportation to the colony					Servant Sex	female
						Servant Age
Others Involved						Source	LIV 144: Liber B folio 45

Servant Name	Horner	James	Master Name	Hanson, Leo and Swanson	Andrew, Valerus and Swan	Date	10/29/1655
Event	sues for payment for 14 days worke "upon his own diet"; owed two barrels of corn and 14 days work at 25lbs of tobacco per day (350 lbs); testifies in trial where Marsh sued South for a pair of stilliards (LIV 86)					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age	42
Others Involved						Source	LIV 31, 41; Liber A fol 102

Servant Name	Hubbert	Humphrey	Master Name	Burton	Edmond	Date	6/30/1668
Event	brought to court to register, ordered to serve 5 years					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age
Others Involved	also registered Mary Ewens					Source	LIV 246

Servant Name	Huson	Ric:	Master Name	Wickes	Joseph	Date	3/2/1657
Event	enters land rights for transporting servant into colony in 1657					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age
Others Involved						Source	LIV 127: Liber B folio 17

Servant Name	Hutchins	Ellenor	Master Name	Woolcott	John	Date	8/1668
Event	registration of servant, ordered to serve 6 years unless a 4 year indenture comes to light; Disborough Bennett (clerk) produces a 4 year indenture					Servant Sex	female
						Servant Age	late teens?
Others Involved						Source	LIV 249

Servant Name	Indian boy		Master Name	Fillips	David	Date	12/20/1660
Event	complains that he bought an Indian boy from his father and that the father has come to his house and stolen items and now has stolen the boy from him					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age
Others Involved						Source	LIV 191

Servant Name	Kempstone	Richard	Master Name	Nash	Richard	Date	11/2/1670
Event	Richard Nash sold Kempstone to Thomas Taylor, "from the arrival of the ship", for 4 years					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age	over 18
Others Involved						Source	LIV 302

Servant Name	Lockett	Elisa	Master Name	Read	Mathew	Date	3/1/1657
Event	register servant in court w/out indentures; according to Assembly required to serve 7 years, master accepts 6 years					Servant Sex	female
						Servant Age	16 (1657)
Others Involved	1660: gets pregnant by thomas Bright and Mrs. Conner keeps the child					Source	LIV 127; Liber B fol 17; LIV 205-211-212

Servant Name	Longthorne	John	Master Name	Wickes	Joseph	Date	3/2/1657
Event	enters land rights for transporting servant into colony in 1657					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age
Others Involved						Source	LIV 127: Liber B folio 17

Servant Name	Lutt	Alice	Master Name	Ward	Thomas?	Date	2/1/1657
Event	Ward fined 300 lbs in 1652 for "Unlawful Correction giuen to his servant" by himself and his wife; appeals to Court saying fine was paid to frances Lumbar who was sheriff, Mrs Ward pretending that the discharge was lost by her husband on way from Patuxent					Servant Sex	female
						Servant Age
Others Involved	Deposition stated that servant ran away & on being taken back "Mistress Ward did whip her with a peach tree rod & after she had done, she took water and sale, and salted her, and when she was adoing the same the maid cried out. . ." fine paid					Source	LIV 9-10; Lib A fo 54-57; 125-126; Lib B Fol 18

Servant Name	Mannering	Margaret	Master Name	South	Thomas	Date	11/18/1657
Event	former servant to Thomas Bradnox; accused Bradnox of raping her so Bradnox sues her for slander; she recants her rape accusation and is found guilty of slander, to receive ten lashes upon her bare back by an officer					Servant Sex	female
						Servant Age
Others Involved						Source	LIV 122; Liber B folio 20

Servant Name	Masticke	John	Master Name	Clapham	William	Date	7/29/1655
Event	"Henery Carline of Kent doe acknowledge myself to haue Fully agreed with John Masticke and doe engadge myseld to Cleare fume from all seruice due unto mr William Clapham or any other pson or psones Claiming seruice unto the day and date hereof",					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age
Others Involved						Source	LIV 28; Liber A folio 100

Servant Name	Meconnicon	John	Master Name	Wickes	Joseph	Date	3/2/1657
Event	enters land rights for transporting servant into colony in 1650					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age
Others Involved						Source	LIV 127: Liber B folio 17

Servant Name	Metcalfe	Rachell	Master Name	Morgan	Henry	Date	11/15/1658
Event	demands acreage for transportation to the colony					Servant Sex	female
						Servant Age
Others Involved						Source	LIV 144: Liber B folio 45

Servant Name	Morgan	John	Master Name	Wickes	Joseph	Date	3/2/1657
Event	enters land rights for transporting servant into colony in 1654					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age
Others Involved	Morgan involved in case against Bradnox for drunkeness in 1659, not clear if he is still Wickes' servatn at that point (LIV 173)					Source	LIV 127; Liber B folio 17

Servant Name	Padbury	Jane	Master Name	Read	Mathew	Date
Event	brought to court without indentures, servant and master agree to 4 year term (implies she is already an adult)					Servant Sex	female
						Servant Age	20's?
Others Involved						Source	LIV 243

Servant Name	Rennoulds	William	Master Name	Morgan	Henry	Date	10/1/1661
Event	Morgan claims he did not take up land rights for land that belonged to his servant (plus 2 other John Barnes and Janne Seares)					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age
Others Involved						Source	LIV 228

Servant Name	Rosemason	Hans	Master Name	Tourson	Alexander	Date	11/1668
Event	Tourson brought servant to court, ordered to serve 5 years according to the law					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age
Others Involved						Source	LIV 260

Servant Name	Seares	Janne	Master Name	Morgan	Henry	Date	10/1/1661
Event	Morgan claims he did not take up land rights for land that belonged to his servant (plus 2 other William Rennoulds and John Barnes)					Servant Sex	female?
						Servant Age
Others Involved						Source	LIV 228

Servant Name	Sembreck	Frances	Master Name	Meconicon	John	Date
Event	demands her freedom for having served according to act of Assembly, Court agrees and ordered Meconicon to pay her corn dues (1/1667)					Servant Sex	female
						Servant Age
Others Involved	servant Frances Shembrooke brought to court for have a bastard child by fellow servant James Phillips in 1670 and charges abuse against her masters Wm. Bishop and Robert Palmer (LIV 291-92)					Source	LIV 239, 291-92

Servant Name	Shambrooke	Frances	Master Name	Bright	Thomas	Date	6/18/1668
Event	indentures herself for three years in exchange for meat, drink, lodging and apparel					Servant Sex	female
						Servant Age
Others Involved	witnessed by Thomas Thechiley and Robert Hawkshaw					Source	LIV 248

Servant Name	Sheurty	Hannah	Master Name	Harris	George	Date	3/28/1671
Event	a trial for trespass goes to jury and they find he owes her "in consideracon for her seruice according to agreemt on Cow calf and for clothes seauen hundred pounds of tobacco with costs of sute"					Servant Sex	female
						Servant Age
Others Involved						Source	LIV 313

Servant Name	Silluester (sylvester?)	John	Master Name	Lovely	Deliverance	Date	12/20/1660
Event	Silluester testifies in trial against Roger Ladimore for failure to deliver cask and repair boat; rented out to Thomas Bennett along with plantation in 1660					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age	20 (1660)
Others Involved	testimony from James Ringgold, William Dauis and David Fillips					Source	LIV 189-190, 201-202

Servant Name	Simons	Thomas	Master Name	Hawkins	Thomas	Date	3/30/1656
Event	listed in appraisal of Hawkins estate on 3/30/1656 with 6 months left to serve, valued at 1000 lbs					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age
Others Involved						Source	LIV 102

Servant Name	Smith	Mathias	Master Name	Hull	Edward	Date	8/25/1668
Event	Hull complaint against servant in court, Court orders 20 lashes on bare back of Smith but also gives him his freedom with corn and clothes because he cured Hull's leg					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age
Others Involved						Source	LIV 248

Servant Name	Snow	Thomas	Master Name	Hemsley		Date	12/20/1660
Event	testifies to the will of Thomas Dicks,					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age	20 (1660)
Others Involved						Source	LIV 192

Servant Name	Stanley	Ann	Master Name	Bradnox	Thomas	Date	10/19/1657
Event	testifies in trial regarding Salter sleeping with Bradnox wife and accusing Bradnox of doing with same with his wife (Salter's)					Servant Sex	female
						Servant Age	21 (1657)
Others Involved						Source	LIV 116; Liber B folio 23

Servant Name	Stedhed	Mary	Master Name	Ereckson	John	Date	6/7/1662
Event	Mary complains that she is pregnant by Mathew Reed					Servant Sex	female
						Servant Age
Others Involved	jury of women inspect her but find no sign of pregnancy					Source	LIV 233

Servant Name	Sutheren	Thomas	Master Name	Bradnox	Thomas	Date	12/20/1660
Event	complains against his master for keeping him beyond his time; case referred to Provincial Cour					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age
Others Involved	testimony from Judeth Hemsley (27); Macume Meconny (23); Nickus Brodway (30); John White (22); Will Hemsley (26)					Source	LIV 191

Servant Name	Tarrant	Edd	Master Name	Wickes	Joseph	Date	3/2/1657
Event	enters land rights for transporting servant into colony in 1654					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age
Others Involved						Source	LIV 127; Liber B folio 17

Servant Name	Tarrent	Edward	Master Name	Erickson	John	Date	12/1655
Event	Erickson complains against Tarrent's estate for performance of a condition; condition ordered to be performed out of the estate					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age
Others Involved						Source	LIV 49; Liber A folio 114

Servant Name	Tennant	Mary	Master Name	Wright	John	Date	9/29/1668
Event	Tennant to serve 5 years from her arrival in the country					Servant Sex	female
						Servant Age	late teens?
Others Involved						Source	LIV 249

Servant Name	Weest	Thos.	Master Name	Morgan	Henry	Date	12/1652
Event	obtained his freedom and freedom corn according to the custom of the country "order is conditional, the Master being allowed a certain time to produce the indentures"					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age
Others Involved						Source	LIV 10; Liber A folio 60

Servant Name	Wharton	Henry	Master Name	Hawkins	Thomas	Date	3/30/1656
Event	listed in appraisal of Hawkins estate on 3/30/1656 with 1 year 1/2 left to serve, valued at 1500 lbs					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age
Others Involved						Source	LIV 102

Servant Name	Whatley	William	Master Name	Barnes	Isabella	Date	6/30/1668
Event	registration in court, ordered to serve 6 years according to law					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age
Others Involved						Source	LIV 246

Servant Name	Wilson	James (a Scot)	Master Name	Bradnox	Capt Thomas	Date	3/29/1652
Event	inquest into death of Wilson (8/19/1652); "the material cause of the said Wilson his death was an intermitting fever joined with the dropsy or scurvy. . . and further that the stripes given hi, by his Master not long before his death were not material"					Servant Sex	male
						Servant Age
Others Involved						Source	LIV 9;Liber A folio 47-49; Hansen Old Kent 21-25