His Excellency the Governor having communicated to this
Board a Report made to him by the Justices of Ann Arundel
County Court of their having passed Sentence of Death
against Negro Cesar the Slave of Walter Dulany and Tom
the Slave of Margaret Gaither for assaulting Duncan Rob-
ertson and Mary Suttor on the third of June Instant in the
Night of the same Day and Violently and felloniously taking
and Carrying away from the Persons of the said Robertson
and Suttor Sundry Effects belonging to them and putting
them in fear and Dread.

Ordered that Death Warrants issue for the aforesaid
Negroes Cesar and Tom, to be hung on Wednesday the third
day of July next at the Common Place of Execution.

His Excellency is pleased to lay before this Board the fol-
lowin Petition

To his Excellency Horatio Sharpe Governor of Maryland.

The Humble Petition of William Keene of Baltimore
County Sheweth

That in the Month of January in the year of Our Lord

Seventeen hundred and Twenty four Thomas Larkins of Ann

Arundel County obtained his Lordships Grant for a Tract
of Land containing two thousand five hundred acres called
Solitude which is Situate in York County in Pensilvania
within about Six Miles of the Temporary Line that the said
Thomas Larkins Sold and Conveyed Twelve hundred and
fifty acres part of the said Tract of Land to Christian Guest
of Ann Arundel County who by his last will and Testament
devised the Same to his Widow and his Son Samuel Guest
equally to be divided between them That a Partition some
time in the year Seventeen hundred and forty Seven was had
between the said Samuel Guest and Sarah Gassaway Devisee
of Thomas Gassaway who purchased the same under a Con-
veyance made by the af^d Widow of Christian Guest that your

Petitioner hath Intermarried with the said Sarah who is

Still living and in Virtue whereof and the Partition so as
af^d made became intitled to five hundred and eighty three