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Lib. J. R.
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Read the following Petition and Depositions preferred
against Capt Peter Bainbridge.
To His Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esqr Governor and
Commander in Chief in and over the Province of Maryland.
The humble Petition of the Inhabitants of Frederick
County.
Most humbly Sheweth
That Whereas your Excellency was pleased some years ago
to appoint Peter Bainbridge as a Magistrate and also a Cap-
tain's Commission and as he has never Acted Justly in neither
as he ought to have done, and Whereas your humble Peti-
tioners and others of said County groans under the load of
his bad Conduct in every Shape, Wrong Judgments and other
Grievous affairs too Teedious here to mention, so that the
greatest part of the Country cries out against him, Yet we will
make bold to mention one Article, That Whereas in the year
Fifty Eight when the Militia went out to the back Woods your
Excellency was at Fort Cumberland, and said Bainbridge was
up at said time with some part of his Company which if he had
not a Dozen it could not be wondered at, seeing he Agreed
with one Philip Rodenpiller to leave him at home, upon Con-
dition to weave said Bainbridge a Quantity of Linen Cloth,
Now seeing my Lords Tenants Represents the said Bainbridge
to be an unfit Person for said Offices, prays that your Excel-
lency will take the same into your Consideration and appoint
some other Person in his Place, as there is several more proper
for it than him, and your humble Petitioners will be for ever in
Duty bound to pray.
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