Thomas & Elinor Dorrill Abstracts from [Here is an example where all three of the Dorrill-Dorrell-Darrell spellings are use interchangeably when referring to the same individuals within a series of documents and concerning the same incident.] ____________ Tho Dorrill his Attestacon: "The Attestacon of Thomas Dorrill aged 33 yeares or thereabouts sworne saith that Simon Richardson coming at my house Wm Thomas came in about some business to me and the said Richardson began to rangle with the said Thomas and after the said Thomas was gon, your depon't heard the Richardson say the Wm Thomas told him at that time that he had the familiar use or that he had swifed Edward Coles wife and would swife her againe in spight of her husband or any other man, and further your Depon't testifieth that he never heard any such words from Wm Thomas neither by Edward Coles wife nor any other woman whatsoever at that time or at any other time nor never knew any dishonest act by the man neither in that way or any other way, ffurther saith not signum Thomas Dorrill. Jurat Coram me Nicholas Morris, recorded this Attestacon the 20th Sept 1652." Elinor Dorrill her Attestacon: "Attestacon of Elinor Dorrill aged 37 years or thereabouts sworne saith that she heard Simon Richardson sweare that he would revenge himselfe on Wm Thomas and he desired yo'r Deponent to tell Edward Coles wife that the said Thomas tolle him that he had had the carnall or familiar use of her and would have it again in spight of her husbands teeth or any other mans, and the said Richardson brought a club in his hand into yo'r deponents house and threatened the said Thomas wheresoever he mett him, and the said Thomas boy coming into yo'r Depon't the said Richardson told him that he would fight with his master wheresoever he mett him, and further saith that the said Richardson came unto yo'r Depon't and would have given me a heifer if that I would have defamed Mrs. Coles, she being a woman by whom I never saw any incivillity or dishonesty in word or deed and I answered him that I would not nor could not doe such an unjust action, and as for the said Thomas I never heard him say nor know that he had the familiar or carnall use of Mrs. Coles or any other woman whatsoever, ffurther saith not Signum Elllinor Dorrill. Jurat Coram me Nicholas Morris, recorded this Attestacon the 20th Septem: 1652." [Elinor was to later marry Edw. Coles after the death of Thomas.] Dorrell, Tho and Elinor his wife in Virginia, planter. Christian Bayly widow of Paule Bayly decd, binds her child Elinor Bayly to Tho Dorrell in Virginia, planter, and Elinor his wife, or in case of their deaths, to her daughter Anne Porter, for 17 years. 13 Aug 1663. Coles, Edw. Accuses Granny Neale the wife of Mr. Danl Neal of bewitching his wife [Elinor], 20 May 1671. [Elinor, wife of Edw Coles, was widow of Tho Darrell.] Further: he said his wife "was under an ill tongue" and "she lay speechless and further said that he did verily belive she was bewitched." Mrs. Coles, as the center of attraction, kept up this fraud for some time. Then Edwd Coles says he is sorry he called Mrs. Neal a witch and a whore, that the words "were passionately spoken and not malitiously." Pays all Court charges, etc. The whole affair is exceedingly comical. 5 Aug 1671. Darrell, Tho. Decd. Admr of his estate to Edw Coles who m Elinor the widow. 15 Jan 1678/9. [According to another extract above, Elinor was already married to Edw. Coles by Aug 1671.] * * *
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