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Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1681-85/6, 59
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Ebenezer Blakiston
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Benjamin Gundry
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William Pearce
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Richd R Pullen
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Edwd Swettnam
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John James
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William Nowell
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John Cocks
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Nathaniel Howell
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Richard Nash
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Edward Beck
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T, Benjamin
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Thomas Hawker
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George Higginbotham
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Hendrickson
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Joseph Hopkins
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William Mead
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Richard RA Adames
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Henry Ripsey
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Joseph Sparnon
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John Howell
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James Stavely
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Gideon Gundry
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John Willis
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Edward Pynn 1681
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ffra: Harmer
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John Weekes
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George Storton.
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A Deposition also taken by Michael Miller before Henry
Hosier and Cornelius Comegys Justices of the peace of Kent
County then read & ordered to be entred viz.
Michael Miller aged 37 yeares or thereabouts Sworne and
Examined
Saith That this Deponent being at Cecil Court the second
Tuesday in June last past, where for some misdemeanor com-
mitted by a servant formerly belonging to Thomas King of
said County but at that time claimed by Captn Jonathan Sibrey,
The said servant was by the Court ordered to receive thirty
nine Lashes and was committed into the custody of Edward
Inglish high Sheriff of the said County to receive the pun-
ishmt that was by the said Court ordered whereupon the
said Inglish did putt in the said Servants hands into the
whipping post, and some small Peach tree switches was
brought to whip the said person which Captn Sibrey and
others found fault with and said tht they were not fitt to
whipp the man withall, whereupon the said Inglish went him-
self to cutt more that might give content, at which time the
prisoner was lett loose and did runn away and Mr Inglish
Runn after him, at which tyme all the people with Mr James
Stavely, Mr Philip Holenger & William Peerce did stand
round the whipping post when the prisoner was lett loose and
did sett up a greate shoute and William Nowell at that time
stood in the Court house Porch makeing a laughter thereat,
but Mr James ffrisby one of the Commissionrs standing some
distance off at the prison doore with your Deponent cryed
shame of their Actions, and was much troubled as he did
show by his discourse. And this Deponent being an Attorney
for an Orphan, (and that being an Orphan Court) did plead
the Act of Assembly concerning Orphans Estates which the
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