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Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 4

Deposition of William Knapp and Hugh Tilley1
Knapp, William Tilley, Hugh

1639-07-08

Wm. Knopp and Hugh Tilley testifie vpon Oath That on the 5th daye of the last week, one Robert Wright servant to Mrs. Glover of Cambridge did overtake them beyond Charlston neck, and brake out into filthy and rayling speeches without any provocation, howling etc. and bidding 2 of the neighbors there kiss his ars, and calling this deponent Knopp bast theavish knave saying that all his Children were so, and calling him dogges-pricke slave, and other reviling speeches, and raylinge allso vpon this other deponent calling him rogue and raskall and iostling him divers tymes, so as they conceiued he was in drink for he was often ready to fall, and smelt of drink etc.

Taken vpon Oath before me Jo: Winthrop Gov ernou r (5) 8: 1639

Jo: Hall affirmed the substance of this.

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W. 1. 128. There were at this time in Watertown two William Knapps, father and son, the elder of whom was a carpenter. Savage, Genealogical Dictionary, III. 34. Hugh Tilley, formerly of Salem, had been a servant of Sir Richard Saltonstall. Ibid., IV. 302.