316 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1769-1770.

Lib. C. B.
No. 20

Sir
We received your Letter by M^r Mitchell and at Our June
Court we appointed to meet at the Head of Elk on the Friday
of the Week following in order to take such Evidence as on
Examination we should think necessary for the Information
of his Excellency and the Gentlemen of the Council in the
Matters complained of by Governor Penn. We then gave
Notice to William Reynolds the Complainant against Francis
Baker Jer^a Baker Stephen Porter and others of the time and
place of this Our intended Meeting and desired that he would
bring there with him such Persons as could establish the truth

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of his Complaint. If such he knew to have been present when
the foundation of it Arose, We at the same time intimated to
Francis Baker, Jere^a Baker and Stephen Porter that they
might attend and be present at the Examination aforesaid and
desired they would give Notice to the other Persons charged
by William Reynolds in the same Indictment (of which we
found they had a Copy) that they also might attend if they
thought proper so to do.
In Consequence of this Appointment and Notice given we
did meet at the Head of Elk and take the Sundry Depositions
herein inclosed Viz. William Reynolds Prudence Reynolds
and Elisha Reynolds. His Excellency and their Honors will
observe by those Depositions that Francis Baker Jer^a Baker
Stephen Porter Robert Porter and Sundry other Persons al-
ledged to have been concerned with them were present at the
taking thereof and that the Deponents were further examined
at their request and we also did Administer the Oath annexed
to the Depositions unto Patrick Ewing John M^cCoy and Abra-
ham Mitchell at their desire.
We are well assured that neither Robert Scott or Andrew
Crauford (the Persons against whom indictments are found
on the Evidence of Elisha Price Esq^r Samuel Kennedy and
others) live in this County and that Mark Alexander one of the
Persons complained of in the Deposition of John Jack taken
by M^r Allen lives in Baltimore Town. We sent Notice to the
said Jack and the others he complained of, but neither he nor
they did attend.
We hope the Steps we have taken will meet with his Excel-
lency and the Gentlemen of the Council's Approbation, and
are Sir
Your most humble & Obed^t Servants
Cecil County 29^th July 1769. G. Milligan
And^w Pearce

Cecil County ss^t On the 24^th day of June 1769. William
Reynolds of Chester County in the Province of Pennsylvania
being Solemnly Sworn on the Holy Evangels Deposeth and