576 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1752.

Lib. C. B.

Court of their having passed Sentence of Death at September
Term on Terence Conner of Frederick County Labourer for
the Murder of One James Boyle; Mary Perry of Queen Anns
County Spinster for Burglary and Felony, and on Negro Joe
a Slave of a Certain Sarah Perkins for Burglary and Felony,
and that the said Several Facts were fully proved; And by
the said Report It further appears that the af^d Mary Perry by
a Jury of Matrons was found to be with Child but not then
quickened as by the Jurys Verdict on Record appears; It is
therefore the Advice of this Board that the Execution of Mary
Perry be respited, until She be delivered; and It is Ordered
with the Advice af^d that Dead Warrants issue for the Execu-
tion of Terence Connor and Negro Joe on Friday the 20^th
Instant
22^d October 1752

Ordered by his Honour the President that the following
Letters be here entered.

Philad^a Octob^r 17^th 1752
Sir
I have sent the Bearer Jonas Osborn express, with direc-
tions to apply to your Land Office, for Copies of all Orders
Warrants, Certificates of Survey, Patents and other Papers
there registred which have been made or issued for the Sur-
veying and Granting the Tract of Land called Digges Choice
Situate to the Northward of the Temporary Line: And am to
request that you will Please to give your Orders for having
them exemplified with all Possible dispatch & Certified under
the Great Seal of your Province. I am
S^r
Your Most Obedient & Most humble Serv^t
Honble Benj^a Tasker Esq^r James Hamilton

Annapolis 21 October 1752
Sir

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Agreeable to yours of 17^th I have given directions to the
' Proper Officers to make out Copys of the Several Orders,
Warrants Certificates of Surveys, Patents and all other Papers
relating to M^r Digges Survey exemplified as you desire.
These I hope will convince you that his Grant was made two
years before the Royal Order for the Temporary Line
I have directed this to be done without fee or Reward
I am
Sir
Your Most Obedient humble Serv^t
Benj^a Tasker
To the Honourable James Hamilton Esq^r
Governor of Pensilvania