>Return-Path: DARNELL-L-request@rootsweb.com >Resent-Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 02:56:48 -0800 (PST) >From: Altomonte@aol.com >Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 06:04:29 EST >To: Darnell-l@rootsweb.com >Cc: Wabcd@aol.com >Subject: David Darnell >Resent-Message-ID: <"VQJkb.A.41G.ZBG00"@fp-1.rootsweb.com> >Resent-From: DARNELL-L@rootsweb.com >X-Mailing-List: <DARNELL-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/232 >X-Loop: DARNELL-L@rootsweb.com >Resent-Sender: DARNELL-L-request@rootsweb.com > >According to Stafford County, VA Order Book, in Court held April 7, 1690, a >Philip Evans charged that in June, 1689 he worked for 6 weeks for David >Darnell at "twenty per diem." Evans claimed that after the 6 week period >David refused to pay him and also confiscated his clothes. Evans asked damages >in the amount of 3,000 lbs. of tobacco. David's wife appeared in court on his >behalf. A jury trial was held and they found David guilty. David was ordered >to pay Evans 1,000 lbs. of tobacco. The jury allowed David to keep a "coat." >Evans was ordered to pay court costs to the jury in the amount of 72 lbs. of >tobacco. ( The remainder of the entry for this court case was not sent to me.) > >David Darnell certainly had his legal troubles. The fact that his wife >appeared in Court on his behalf would indicate that David was either in hiding >or had left the county by this time. > > Lucy Barron (617) 495-2446 Senior Serial Cataloger e-mail: lbarron@fas.harvard.edu Widener Library, Rm. 87 Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138