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At a Council held at the House of his Excellency the Gov-
ernor on Friday the 26th day of April in the 37th year of his
Lordships Dominion Annoq Domini 1751.
Present
His Excellency Samuel Ogle Esqr Governor
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The honble
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Col George Plater
Edmund Jenings Esqr
Col Charles Hammond
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Daniel Dulany Esqr
Benjamin Young Esqr
Benedict Calvert Esqr
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His Excellency having communicated to this Board a Report
made to him by the Justices of the Provincial Court of their
having passed Sentence of Death at April Term on a Certain
Jeremiah Swift a Convict Servant of a certain John Hatherly
of Ann Arundel County for the barbarous Murder of Elizabeth
Hatherly Daughter to the said John, and that It appeared to
the said Court the Murder was perpetrated with all imaginable
Circumstances of Horror and Cruelty; It is ordered by his
Excellency with the Advice of this Board that the said Jere-
miah Swift be hung in Chains as near as may be to the Place
where the Fact was committed
At a Council held in the Council Chamber on Thursday the
29th Day of May in the 37th year of his Lordships Dominion
Annoq Domini 1751
Present
His Excellency Samuel Ogle Esqr Governor
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The honble
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Benjamin Tasker Esqr
Col George Plater
Edmund Jenings Esqr
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Col Charles Hammond
Daniel Dulany Esqr
Richard Lee Esqr
Benedict Calvert Esqr
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P. 440
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William Cuming Esqr produces to this Board a Transcript
of a Record from St Marys County Court, which follows in
these Words.
Saint Marys County ss.
At a County Court of the Right honourable Charles Abso-
lute Lord and Proprietary of the Provinces of Maryland &
Avalon Lord Baron of Baltimore &c. held at Leonard Town for
the County afd on the first Tuesday and Sixth day of Novem-
ber in the 36th year of Our Dominion &c. Anno Domini 1750,
before the Worshipful Thomas Asquith Captain Zachariah
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