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Lib. C. B.
No. 20
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Ordered, that the Court's Docket, for August Court last in
Calvert County, be lodged with the Clerk of this Board, Notice
to be given by the Complainant to Colo Ireland of the time and
place of taking the above Depositions, which after taking are
to be lodged as above.
24th August 1768.
To his Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esqr Governor of Mary-
land
The Petition of the Subscribers humbly Sheweth.
That your Petitioners being near Neighbours to Ezekiel
Gott, and knowing his Negro Lad Lem for some years past ;
(who now lies under Sentence of Death for a Burglary in the
House of a certain Boardley Bowers,) which your Petition-
ers presume he Committed through overpersuasion, youth, and
unexperience, he being not quite eighteen years of Age, and
your Petitioners never knew nor heard of his being guilty of
or accessary to any Crime until this.
That your Petitioners also knowing that the said Ezekiel
Gott, cannot directly purchase a Slave that would be so ser-
viceable to him as the said Negro, and that notwithstanding
the High Value the Court has been pleased to put him at, your
Petitioners do apprehend that the said Ezekiel Gott would be
a great sufferer at this Time, if his Negro must suffer Death.
That your Petitioners, as Neighbours to the said Ezekiel
Gott, will be under no Apprehensions of Suffering in their
Properties if the said Negro Lad should, through your Excel-
lency's Mercy, be returned to his said Master. Your Petition-
ers therefore humbly beseech Your Excellency will be pleased
to look on the said Negro as an Object of Mercy, and if from
this Representation or any other your Excellency may Collect,
that you'll be pleased for the above Reasons to take this Peti-
tion into Consideration, and grant the said Negro a Pardon, if
it should to Your Excellency's great Judgment appear fit.
And your Petitioners as in Duty bound will ever pray &c.
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