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       William Dorrington, mr John Abeington, Iohn Gramer Daniell Liber B.

       Goulson, Mr In Cornelius Arthur Wright, Henry Coxe, No. 3.

       Thomas Reed William Stockden Which Jury being Called to

       Answer to their Names before the Court; The prisoner having

       Libertie to make his Exception before the Jury was Sworne,

       did not Except against any of the Said Jurors, upon which the

       Jury was Sworne the Bill read, their Charge given, and was

       Sent out to find the Bill in Charge which is as followeth viz:

         You are to make Enquiry in the behalf of his highness the

       Lord Protector of England, Scotland, Ireland and the Domin-

       ions thereunto belonging, whether or not John Dandy late of

       the mill at Newtowne of the County of Patomocke Smith, be

       Indictable for feloniously Murthering a Servant of his in or

       upon the 7th of July last, named Henry Gouge. In respect the

       Said Dandy did upon the Said 7th of July last, Send his Said

       Servant Henry Gouge to draw Coles at a Cole kill, and pres-

       ently after in the Same day the Said Dandy did goe to the

       Said Cole kill where the Said Gouge was So Sent to draw

       Coles, and whilst the Said Dandy was with the Said Gouge at

       the Said Cole kill, the Said Gouge was heard to Cry, O Lord!

       O Lord! and Suddenly after the Said Gouge was heard So to

       Crye, The Said Dandy did return from the Said Cole kill, and

       Said that the Said Gouge was runaway the Said Gouge being

       no more Seen untill the next morning, And then the Said

       Gouge was found in a Creek near the mill amid dwelling house p. 330

       of the Said John Dandie, and when he the Said Henry Gouge

       was So found, he was found dead and naked floating upon the

       water in the Said Creeke, And when the Corps of the Said

       Henry Gouge was taken out of the Said water & Creeke the

       Said John Dandy being present to help turn the Said Corps,

       time Said Corps did bleed a fresh at the nose and at an old

       Soare or wound the Said John Dandy had given the Said

       Henry Gouge in the head, in or about may last, And was

       black in the face, And did not appeare to those that viewed

       the Said Corps, that the Said Gouge Came to his Death by

       Drounding, Alsoe the Said John Dandy having broke prison,

       fled out of this Province After he was apprehended upon Sus-

       pition of having Murthered his Said Servant Henry Gouge

       into Virginia, amid hath confessed that he the Said John Dandy

       was Charged to have killed his man Henry Gouge, a week

       befome he did.

         The Grand Jury of Inquest after much debate & time Spent,

       returned their Joynt Verdict upon the Bill, Billa vera to both

       Indictments, upon which Verdict (the day being much Spent)

       The Court cloth order that the Jury be discharged, the prisoner

       Secured and the Court adjourned untill the next day at eight

       of the Clock in the morning