Lebeus Rude

Lebeus Rude

The Deposition of Lebeus Rude of Western [Weston] in the County of Worcester & Commonwealth of the Massachusets yeoman Testifies and says that he was Hired by one John Peters then of Boston in the County of Suffolk in the State aforesaid yeoman to Labour and Take Care of the Improvement on a farm in Middleton in the County of Essex and State aforesaid which formerly was the Estate of John Wilkins of said Town Gentleman Deceased and while I was there at Labour the aforesaid John Peters came there in order to setle an account with Timothy Perkins who who had Demands upon said Estate in order to settle the Estate by a Power from said Wilkins[‘] widow: when Ezra Putnam Gentleman and John Eastey In[n]holder both of said Middleton opposed said Peters his Set[t]lement with Perkins and said he had no business with that Estate and that it was the Town Business to settle it and said Putnam told Peters that it was not healthy for him to come there any more and the Deponant Further Declares that he was so molested in his business that he was ob[l]idged to go to Boston to Inform said Peters that the Town (as they told the widow) was going to take the farm into their hands and the Declarant further saith not [signature, Lebbeus Rude]

December 25: 1780

[Sworn to Dec. 25, 1780, before William Ayres, Justice of the Peace, in Brookfield, Worcester County. Taken at the request of John Peters. The adverse party being more than thirty miles from Brookfield ware not notified nor present at this Caption.]

1780-12-25