"Whereas Phillip a Negro belonging unto Capt William Hawley Esq[ui]re entertayned one Sibble fford a mayde Servant belonging unto Capt Phillip Taylor in a cave underground out of his Masters Service. It is therefore ordered by this Court that the sayde Phillip the Negro shall have ffifteene lashes upon his bare shoulders as a punishm[en]t inflicted upon him for his sd offense." (1)
"Whereas it appe[r]th unto this Court that Tho: Parks hath entertayned one Sibble Ford a servant unto Capt Phillip Taylor one & Twenty days contrary to law & equity. It is therefore Ordered by this Court That ye sd Parks shall according to ye late Act of Assembly pay unto the sd Capt Phillip Taylor or his Assignes the quantity of Fower hundred & Twenty pounds of Merch[an]table tobacco And shall remayne in the custody of the Sheriff untill he shall put in sufficient security for ye sd fower hundred & Twenty pounds of tobacco als exec &c." (1)
Unable to find Sibble in Nugent vols. I-II.
Thomas Parks was accused of enticing servants to run away. (1)
(1) Howard Mackey and Marlene A. Groves, Northampton County, Virginia Record Book, Orders, Deeds, Wills &c, Vol. 3, 1645-1651 (Rockport, Maine: Picton Press, 2000), 3, quoting Northampton County, Virginia Order Book 3:2.
(2) J. Douglas Deal, Race and Class in Colonial Virginia: Indians, Englishmen, and Africans on the Eastern Shore During the Seventeenth Century (New York & London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1993), 327.