456 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1694 97.

      Lib. H. D.     cill of this province next Adjacent to the place where the sd

            Jeremi: shall be taken, who is hereby Required to Examine the

            premisses and take good Security of the Jeremi: to procure

            the Boy from Carolina into this province with all expedition

            and to be delivered to the sd Tho: Ennalis in Ordr to his pas-

            sage home again and if the sd Jeremiah shall refuse to give

         p. 370 such security that he be Recommited to the Custody of such

            Officer again there to Remain till he procure the sd boy to be

            brought here as aforesd or give such Security as aforesd for all

            wch this Shall be your Warrant Given under my hand and Seal

            this 9th day of July in the Year of our Lord 1696.

                                             ffr: Nicholson

                           July the 7th, 1696.

              Presented by Capt Oldton the following Return in writing

            which was Read Vizt

              To his Exncy ffrancis Nicholson Esq his mats Capt Genll of

            Maryland &Ca

              According to an Ordr of yoT Exncy to Thomas Roberts to

            be Leivtent under the Conduct of John Oldton by your Exncy

            appointed Capt of the Rangers of Baltemore County: the

            motives and Reasons which Yor Exncy Requires to the sd Ordr

            are as thus.

              That the sa Thomas Roberts is altogether incapable of the

            management of the sd Office, and that the persons that are

            under my Conduct say, that they will not be Commanded by

      Whitehall the sd Thomas Roberts, he being by them taken to be a mo

            ross sort of a Person and altogether unwilling to be by him

            Comanded. These Reasons and Objections I hope may weigh

            with your Exncy and therefore I humbly Pray the Liberty of

            the Choice of Tobias Stanborough to be my Leivtnt which

            doubt not but your will admit off, when seen, being the

            needfull that Offers from.

                           Yor Exncies most Obedient Servant

                                             John Oldton

              Ordered tht Copy of the above Return be sent to the sd

      Whitehall Thomas Roberts for him to make answer thereto with all Con

            venient Speed.

              Ordered that the honrble Coll: John Addison furnish Coll:

            Ninian Beal with as much Amunition as he finds he shall

            have Occasion for.

              It being Ordered in Assembly that the Choptico and po

            munky Indians &Ca Should (dureing this time of warr) be

      Whitehall under the Emperor of Piscattoway;

              Ordered that a Commission pursuant thereto be prepared

            to pass the Broad Seal.