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11: When Depositions were taking respecting Serjeant
Kenigh, M^r Sterling said he understood the People in Town
had threatned to break him and M^r Calder, and that was
their main Design he valued not their Representations the
recruiting Service was not very agreeable to him, but if he
was ordered here again to recruit next Winter he would
bring with him twenty of the worst Fellows he could pick
out in the whole Regiment.
12: M^r Sterling threatning to shoot any Civil Officer that
should attempt to arrest him That Serjeant Kenigh threat-
ning Doctor Porter when he only advised Thomas Seally
his former Acquaintance to complain to the Court, of the
Abuse he the Doctor saw him receive from the Recruits, that
he the Serjeant said he would cut off his Ears if ever he
meddled or concerned himself again with them or their

Affairs :

Thomas Perkins

Jo: Wicks Foreman

Samuel Davis

Jonathan Turner

James Roberts

Richard Willis

Samuel Miller

Benjamin Riccaud

Hezekiah Dunn

William Wilmer

Joseph Rasin

John Maxwell

Jesse Cosdon

Aaron Alford

Nicholas Ridkitts

Gustavus Hanson.

Also a Bill of Indictment against John Flinn and others
of Kent County Soldiers for an Assault committed by them
against Hercules Coutts high Sheriff of the said County and
likewise a Copy of an Indictment against William Keiough
and others for riotously and tumultuously assembling them-
selves together at Chester Town in the said County whereby
a certain Robert Cushion Mariner, was of their Malice afore-

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thought killed and murdered all which being read, this Board
do humbly advise that his Excellency would be pleased to lay
them before the Right Honourable the Earl of Loudoun.

His Excellency is pleased to lay before this Board the
following Address.

To his Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq^r Governor and
Commander in Chief in and over the Province of Maryland.

The humble Address of the House of Delegates.
May it please your Excellency
Your Excellency will find by the Report and Depositions
herewith sent that some Persons professing the Roman
Catholic Religion have taught and one doth still teach School
within this County, and as we have Reason to believe there
are many such Schools established in the different Counties
of this Province, and have not now time to make a full