“Minutes of the Council and General Court of Colonial Virginia Regarding Thomas/Sine Hall”

Exaicons taken before John Pott Efq^r gouerno^r the 25^th day of March A ^o [1629] ffrancis England of the age of twenty yeares or thereabouts fworne and exaied faith That Thomas Hall (being exaied by Cap: Baffe wether hee were man or woeman (as himfelfe did confeffe to this exãiate) toulde this exãite that hee anfwered Cap^t: Baffe that hee was both man and woeman And this exaiate further fayth that the faid Hall being at Atkins arbor one Nicholas . . . asked him why hee went in weomans aparell the faid Hall anfwered in the hearing of this dep^t I goe in weomans a parell to gett a bitt for my Catt And hee further fayth that there was a Rumo^r and Report that the faid Hall did ly w^th a maid of M^r Richard Bennetts called greate Beffe And hee likewife fayth that hee this exãite and one Roger Rodes being at the vpper plantacon after it had beene rumored that the faid Hall was a man and that hee was put in mans apparell the faid Hall being then there with them, the faid Rodes tould Hall thou haft beene reported to be ^e a woman and now thou art pved to bee a man, I will fee what thou carrieft, Wherevppon the faid Rodes laid hands vppon the faid Hall, and this exãiate did foe likewife, and they threw the faid Hall on his backe, and then this exãiate felt the faid Hall and pulled out his members whereby it appeared that hee was a Pfect man, and more hee cannot depofe.