At a Councill held at the City of S( Maries the Eighth Day
of August Anno Domini 1681 :
The Rt honble the Lord Propry
Philip Calvert Esqr Chancelor
The honble William Calvert Esqr Secry Prsent
Coll Henry Darnall
Then Delivered into the hands of the Clk of the Councill
to be entred the following Deposition of Samuel Dobson viz.
Augt 4th 1681 :
Samuel Dobson aged Sixty three yeares or thereabouts
sworne upon the holy Evangelists saith that about the begin-
ning of the last moneth Captn John Coode came to Bushwood
to the house of Gerard Slye where this Deponent then and
now hath his residence: that they then fell into discourse
about the murder at Point Looke Out then lately committed
upon Thomas Potter and others, that this Deponent then in
discourse saying that the said Potter and his Companions (as
this Deponent thought) were murdered by the Indians, the
said Cood replyed noe they were not murdered by Indians,
but were murdered by Christians, and that Coll Spencer had
cleared the Indians then questioned; And further Sayth not
Juravit die et Anno Supradictis
coram nobis
Samuel Dobson signed Philip Calvert
Will Calvert
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