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whither any Robberies of this nature have been committed in
your Province, that accordingly right and justice may be duely
pformed, which shall ever be the constant care of
Virg^a James City Y^r humble Serv^t
Ap" the 20^th 1685 Effingham
To the Hon^rd Coll Henry Darnall and
Coll W^m Digges Dep^ty Governo^rs of the
Province of Maryland,
haste post haste for his Maj^ties Especiall
Service Effingham.

L^d Effinghams L^rs to Coll Digges.

Poropotanck Aprill the 2^d 1685
S^r
The Sloopes with men I sent out for the app^rhending &
takeing of Roger Makeele, and the rest of his Confederates
that have committed soe many Robberies and outrages in
Virginia and Maryland have seized of a Sloope Shallop and
boate, in which were thirteen men and four weomen, who say
they were Inhabitants and did belong to Choptank within the
Province of Maryland, and were goeing with a designe to
seate in the Southward, but I am informed that they doe not
agree in their stories, And being ask'd, whither they knew
Makeele or Slaughter the Chiefest of the Confederates, at first
denyed, but upon further Examination owned they knew them
both; M^r Henry Jenckins the Command^r of the Sloopes
found a cap upon one of their heads, which he knew to belong
to one of his Servants who hath been gone from him above
these 2 moneths, and now is with Makeele, Jenkins asked him
how he came by it, who by all probability found he had it
from his Servant, One of them told Jenkins that they were
to meete Makeele and Slaughter at Smiths Island River, in
ord^r to carry them to some place in the Southward to settle,
They are most of them lusty young men, have scarce Clothes
to their backs, yett have in the sloope, (to which belongs a new
Cable worth 16^l sterl) a shallop &c^a to the value of Two hun-
dred p^ds sterl: and upwards in household Stuff and goods, for
which they pretend an Invoice from M^r Gilbert Metcalf
M^rchant (and others) whose name is spellt wrong, and the
hand not any waies like M^r Metcalfs, as a gentl that is well
acquainted therewith avers, as also a Certificate from a Clerk

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of one of your Counties neere or upon Choptank, which is
verily p^rsumed not to be of his hand writeing.
These circumstances induces me to beleive that these are
some of their Associates, or holds greate correspondency with