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Scalps or Prisoners if he should be entitled to it, which, if he
recovered or received, he the said Spencer would allow him
the said Nicholas the sum of Ten Pounds out of the said
Bounty, but that the said Nicholas (whom he had understood
had received the sum of Fifty Pounds for said Scalp by some
means or other) had never paid him above the sum of Ten
Pounds this Deponent further Deposed that he never to his
Knowledge did see Cap^t Shelby nor did he ever make Oath
before any Justice of the Peace whatever, relative to the gett-
ing or Taking of the said Scalp. At the time of giving the
above Deposition he requested this Deponent to Endeavour
to recover or procure for him from the said Nicholas the

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Balance which appeared to be due him on which this Depo-
nent asked the said Amos Nicholas for the Money who replied
that he had Sold the Scalp to Cap^t Evan Shelby for the sum
of Thirty Pounds, which if he had not done should have got
Nothing for it, therefore could not pay the sum he the said
Spencer expected, and as this Deponent had undertaken to
Negotiate that Business for the said Spencer, enquired at the
Paper Currency Office in Annapolis what sum had been paid
for said Scalp and to whom and found a Certificate for the
taking said Scalp Given by Cap^t Shelby and a Receipt for the
said Money signed by Edmund Moran to whom he applied for
the Balance due said Spencer to which Moran answered that
he had received the Money for Cap^t Evan Shelby and had
delivered it to him, and further this Deponent sayeth not
Sworn the 19^th June 1766, before Enoch Innis.
David Lynn.

December the 2^d 1765 . Came Barnett Johnson Constable of
Linton Hundred with five Men with him viz^t Edmund Moran,
James Dawson, Nathan Lynn, John Gerloh and Thomas
Hynes to the House of Conrod Wheat between the Hours of
Nine and Ten o'Clock at Night, and asked for a Quart of
Whiskey, and got but a Pint, and then asked if there was a
Pedlar there, then they called Conrod Wheat out a Doors, and
asked him if he would [give] up his Daughter's Child. He
asked them upon what Condition, they answered they had an
Order from the Court for the Child, Conrod Wheat demanded
to see the Order, then Edmund Moran read the Order then
Conrod Wheat found the Order was from Evan Shelby Esq^r
and not from the Court, and refused to let the Child go, as the
Girl had given Security to the Court which he thought was
Sufficient, then the Constable Commanded to lay hold, then
some began to Stop the People belonging to the House from
endeavouring to save the Child then they began to Riot and
Beat the People of the House, and Thomas Hynes Swore he

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