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They wondered why he gazed at all so earnestly; and why his eyes grew so bright. Then he slapped the capteen, who was yet a boy, upon the back, and said: "Just the very place we want. Here we will have a quiet castle of our own, where no limb of the law can find us." "But you surely would not think of liveen in this dismal swamp?" they all said at once.
The colonial courts decided against him, and John and Nicholas Hallam, the widow's sons by a former marriage, virtually accepted the terms of the will and the court's decision by being parties to the sale of a portion of the Liveen estate, the ship "Liveen." The estate could not be wholly settled; so the town continued to receive a regular dividend until after the widow's death in 1698.
Liveen, in 1690, the county court probated a copy of the will, since Palmes held the original. To this probating the latter also objected on the ground that, though the court had been again legalized, the "ministry" referred to must be that recognized by the English law and not the Congregational ministry of the town, the only one then existing.
In 1704, because of his acknowledged signature in the sale of the "Liveen," the suit was decided in favor of the colony. F. M. Caulkins, Hist. of New London, pp. 222-228. Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God; for I am the Lord your God. Leviticus, xxv, 17.
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