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Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1753-1761. 169
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against them, for which this shall be your sufficient Warrant.
Dated at Annapolis this 13th day of November Anno Domini
1756.
To Mr Charles Christie
High Sheriff of Baltimore County.
Horatio Sharpe [Seal]
Benjn Tasker [Seal]
C. Hammond [Seal]
P. Thomas [Seal]
Benjn Tasker junr [Seal]
Richard Lee [Seal]
Benedt Calvert [Seal]
At a Council held at the City of Annapolis on the 29*"
Day of November 1756.
Present
His Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esquire Governour.
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the
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Benjamin Tasker Esqr
Col: Charles Ham-
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Colonel Benjamin Tasker
Benedict Calvert Esqr
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Stephen Bordley Esquire his Lordship's Attorney General
was then sent for by Order of the Board, and attended
accordingly.
The Sheriff of Baltimore County having made a Return
of the Warrant directed to him from this Board the 13th
Instant and the Persons therein named being called in one
after the other four of them were examined on Oath, and
deposed as follows:
John Cretin of Baltimore County Planter, being sworn on
the holy Evangels of Almighty God deposeth and saith that
he has lived at Deer Creek in Baltimore County within four
Miles of Mr Ignatius Wheelers ever since the year 1752..
that he is a Roman Catholick, and has gone to the Mass
House where Bennet Neale officiated, that the said Neale
lives upon a plantation that was given by one Thomas Shea,
that he has three, or four Negroes, as he believes working
upon it, and that Mr Neale has resided 6.. or 7.. Years there,
this Deponent likewise saith that he doth not remember any
thing either of one Johnson or Murphy as residing in that
Neighbourhood during the aforementioned time except one
Johnson a Wheelwright who lives there now, this Deponent
further saith that he knows James McDonald Thomas Bur-
gen, and Darby Tool, that McDonald is a poor Man has no
Family but himself and Wife, that he has only a little Hut,
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