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next at or near the head of Seneca Creek, and that they be
hung in Chains, which His Excellency ordered accordingly.
His Excellency having communicated to this Board the
Report made to him by the Justices of Assize of the Western

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Shoar of the Proceedings in their Circuit held in April last,
And it appearing by the said Return, that they had passed
Sentence of Death upon a certain Cornelius Crawley of Balti-
more County for a Rape committed on a Girl under the Age
of ten years, and that the Evidence against him was as full &
clear as the Nature of the Case would admit of; and also upon
a Certain John Lilleston of Ann Arundel County for a Burg-
lary upon clear Evidence, & that the said John Lilleston
stands charged on an Indictment for Murder and that they
likewise passed Sentence of Death upon One William Ocstow
a Boy of about 16 years of Age for breaking a Store, and also
upon a Mulatto Boy named Jack the slave of M^r Daniel
Carrol for breaking a Stable and Stealing a Mare; and It
appearing by the said Return that the two Boys are Objects
of Mercy; It is therefore the humble Advice of this Board to
his Excellency that He be pleased to grant a Pardon to Mulatto
Jack and William Ocstow, and to order dead Warrants to issue
for the Execution of Cornelius Crawley and John Lilleston,
which Pardons and Warrants his Excellency ordered accord-
ingly.
Col Gale acquaints this Board, that the Goods bought by
him at Philadelphia as Presents for the Indians amounting to
£ 83: 11: 9 Sterl and for which he had an Order from Col
Hammond on M^r Hyde payable out of the 3^d p hh^d for Arms,
he is desirous of taking the same Goods to his own Use; and
that as he is going to England, he will replace the said sum
of 83: 11: 9 in M^r Hydes hands to be applyed to the Fund of
3^d for Arms, which this Board approving of It is ordered
accordingly.
Col Gale acquaints the Board that the Behaviour of the
Indians since the late Conspiracy entered into by them has

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been very friendly and civil towards the people of this Province,
and therefore requests that the Guns of the said Indians
which are in the Custody of any the Inhabitants of Somerset
or Dorchester Counties may be restored to them; which this
Board thinking proper, ordered the same accordingly.

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