P. C. No. 146.
Latham, Thomas. We, Andrew Davis and John Bailey, being employed as Carpenters by John Packer, sen., for the finishing of the House of Thomas Latham, Deed, the sd. Packer marrying the Widow of the sd. Latham, And being since desired to give the best of our judgement concerning the frame of that house as to value & worth thereof, and alsoe sd. frame & house wch frame shingles & Clapboards did once belong unto John Morgan and v/as by him sold unto Cary Latham, we finde the length of the sd. howse to be 28 foote and the breadth Eighteen foote, and (9*feet & 1/2 between joynts) & 9 1/2 foot between ye Joynts ; being all slitt worke, wee valine the sd. frame to be really worth £16, & the Clapboards & Shingles to be £6-18 ; all, £22. So much new, doe really judge the Frame, Clapboards & Shingles to be really worth at our Finishing of the sd. House. And if need shall require, we shall make oath to the truth hereof; & in Testimony wee have hereunto sett our Hands, in New London, the
9th of May, 1683,
Sworn October 4th, 1683, before me, Daniel Witherell, Commissioner.