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

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

The Petition of the Subscribers hereunto humbly sheweth

May it please your Excellency,

Whereas Conrod Refieur last March Court held in and
for the County of Cecil was indicted and convicted of steal-
ing a Calf the Property of Benjamin M^cVee, and whereas
also it has since been clearly made appear unto us by several
Persons of undoubted Credit that the aforesaid Conrod
Refieur did not steal the said Calf but that it was in fact
stole by five soldiers belonging to Captain Stanton then
quartered at Charles Town and that he the said Captain
Stanton offered to pay him the said Benjamin M^cVee the
Value of said Calf, and thereupon called and held a Court
Martial for two Days at Charles Town to have said Soldiers
punished according their Demerits, notwithstanding the said
Benjamin M^cVee (altho' he had proper Notice) would not
appear, unless Captain Stanton would give him four Times
the Value of the Calf.

The Premises considered (and altho' that whereas the
said Conrod Refieur hath resided in Charles Town upwards
of ten Years, and hath always been reputed, an industrious
honest Man) we therefore humblv supplicate your Excel-
lency to grant him the said Conrod Refieur a Pardon in such
Manner as to your Excellency may seem most expedient and
your Excellency's Petitioners shall ever pray.

John Veazey Geo.. Catto Elihu Hall.
Nich^oHyland W^m Thornton B.. Moody
Nath.. Baker P.. Baynartt James Baxter.

Upon reading the above Petition it is the Advice of this
Board that his Excellency be pleased to order a pardon to
be made out for the said Conrod Refieur which issued ac-
cordingly