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having passed Sentence of Death in S^t Marys County on

Mulatto James the Slave of Joshua Millard for a Rape com-
mitted on the Body of Mary Hambleton and also for the
wilful Murder of the said Hambleton.
Ordered that Dead Warrant issue for the said Mulatto
James to be hung in Chains on Friday the third Day of May
next upon the publick Road as near as conveniently can be to
the Place where the fact was committed.
Ordered that the Judge of the Land Office Cause Copies of
all Surveys of Counties Grants of Manors and of Lands by
the first and Second Proprietor of Maryland lying- in or on
the Borders of all the disputed parts of this Province

At a Council held in the Council Chamber on Monday the
13 day of May in the fourth year of his Lordships Dominion
Annoque Domini 1754.

Present
His Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq^r Governor

Lib. J. R.
& U. S.

The Honb^le

Benjamin TaskerEsq^r
Col George Plater
Col Charles Hammond
Samuel Chamberlain Esq^r

Col Benjamin Tasker
Richard Lee Esq^r
Benedict Calvert Esq^r

His Excellency is pleased to lay before this Board the fol-
lowing Deposition
M^r John Wills Serjeant in the Virginia Regiment being
Sworn on the holy Evangelist deposeth that he had Listed
two men named William Bullock and William Tub at the
House of William Harris near the Cool Spring in Maryland,
that the said William Harris Robert Harris and others first
diswaded the Recruits from going with the said Officer, and
afterwards Seized him bv the Throat, and took his Cutlass

from him to oblige him to discharge them which he did being
overpowered, and received back the enlisting- Money, That
Gerrard Jordon drank the Pretenders Health damned him
that would not pledge him, and hazzard for the Tartan Plad
& White Cockade that he also Sung Several disloyal Songs
and was joined by Joseph Broadway and others that they
damn'd King Georges Soldiers and said that they had no
business to fight for him for that they were my Lords Men
and had their Lands from him, that then he the said Serjeant
Seized his Halbert and made a pass at Jordon, by which
means he cleared the house of the Rioters Locked the doors
& Placed some other Recruits as Sentinals, and that he was
obliged to keep in the house from about one o Clock in the

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