[113]. Why seizures at this time are confined to this piece of land, can only be conjectured. At this date, the Mamacock land still lay under the attachment of the new executor, James, Jr., and so was safe from this sort of seizure. The attachment by James, Jr., was evidently a mere blind, and it served a double purpose.
[114]. For John Roger’s description of this prison and his imprisonment, see [Part I., Chapter V.]
[115]. This house is a tavern, and has in it the ordinary prison. It is near the Mill Cove.
[116]. They could not so remind the court, it being contrary to the will for them to give up their executorship, or to have anything to do with the court.
[117]. The esteem and affection in which Bathsheba was held by her husband, Samuel Fox, may be estimated by the fact that he not only gave valuable lands to her sons by Richard Smith in her lifetime, but, although he had married again, left by will, sixteen years after her death, to her sons by the name of Smith, yet living (James and John), £40 each, and to her three daughters by Richard Smith, £10 each.
[118]. This deed must have been written in prison. It is recorded among New London land deeds.
[119]. This due to him was £200 secured by note, and paid to him by the executor.
[120]. What follows (as far as December, 1713), is derived from statements of John Rogers (see [Part I., Chapter V.]), from records of Superior Court in New London March 26, and from record of County Court of New London, before which court were arraigned those who prevented the seizure of John Rogers without a warrant.
[121]. This entrance is thus described on the court records:—
“John Rogers coming into her Majesty’s Superior Court and behaving himself in a furious, raving manner with mighty crying and tumultuous noise, and it being certified to this court that ye said Rogers had gotten some and was endeavoring to gather a greater number of idle, vagrant persons by a like raving management of himself, and designed and engaged to dip them in ye water and said that he would baptise one of them.”