October 2007 listmember Bob Smith contributed the following will excerpt. The will is for John Hanniford, second husband of George Dill's widow, Abigail.

Two notations on George from: Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-33

Shurt wrote several times to Winthrop about the debts to Mr. Elbridge, usually managing to include some tidbit of news from the north [WP 4:46, 69]. On 5 May 1639 George Dill wrote from Salem pleading with Winthrop to force Shurt to pay him at the next court, "the thing is nothing to him but much to me," and Shurt replied promptly, on 17 June 1639 [WP 4:119-20, 123].

On 1 July 1654 "Marke Hands of Boston, nailer," sold to "John Pickringe of the river of Pascataquacke an Irish servant man brought over by me Mr. George Dill as a captive & ordered by him to me to make sale of, for the term of five years" [NHPP 40: 132]. On 7 May 1657 "Denis Mekermecke the Irish man is ordered by the Court to serve his master John Pickringe the whole five years his said master having bond against him. By three evidences in court George Walton for stirring up Dennis the Irish man against his master John Pickringe in giving abusive words is fined five pounds" [NHPP 40:129].

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