486 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1692-1694.

P. R. O.

Maryland
3. I. Vol. 2,
B. G.

Councill upon security (which they complyed not with) neither
when the Councill did sitt was there any application made to
them by for or in behalfe of the said Protestants upon their s^d
Appeale soe that Justice cannot be said to be denyed them
as he most falsely & maliciously avers in his s^d Protest.
The Councill upon an alarm in the Country of the inroad of
some foreign Indians was conveened sooner than was designed
on the 9^th day of March when the Protestants were themselves
actually in Towne & made noe applications notwithstanding
his Excellency's assurance & promise to take no advantage of
their lapse of tyme.
Mem: All that is lined in the foregoing Charge was
left out in the Copy sent for England Aprill 11. 1693.
by Capt: W^m Hill Comander of the Ship Anne of Lon-
don but to be taken notice of as marginall notes when
send next.
Aprill 8^th 1693.
Read, proved & approved of in Councill
J: L: Cl: Consil:

True Coppy taken from the Originall lyeing now lodged
among the Council Papers and Minutes in my Custody
Hen: Fenton, Cl: Cone:

Liber K.

At a Councill held at his Excellency the Gov^rs
house April the 8^th day Anno Dom 1692

Present
His Excellency the Governor

the honble

Coll Nehemiah Blakiston
Coll Nicholas Greenbury
Thomas Tench Esq^r

Cap^t Iohn Addison
Cap^t Iohn Courts
Thomas Brooke Esq^r

p. 164

Produced and read the following Depositions concerning
those Indians at the head of the Bay (viz^t)

Henry Thompson declares that the French man or French
Indians who lives at Coll Hermans upon the Mannor is called
or goes by the Name of Mons^r Casteene he is marked with
the Letters M C upon his Breast he married two Indian
Squaws, hath one Daughter aged Sixteen Years the said
french man was a Trader in New England & was the occasion
of the Slaughter or Death of many hundred Souls in New
England the said Thompson was a Captive or Prisoner to
the aforesaid French man and made his Escape and when the
said Thompson hath a sight of the said Frenchman and he
proves to be the same man as he thinks for he will discover