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cause of the battle being renewed or rather continued in the
House.
We are with all possible Regard and Esteem
Sir Your Excellency's most Obedient hble
Servants.
Dan^l of S^t Tho^s Jenifer
Phil :Tho^s Lee
Rob^t Conden

Whereupon Consideration of the Matter after receiving
from the Attorney General Information of the Evidence on
which he was Convicted this Board are of Opinion that the
Presumption is not sufficiently strong to justify the Governor
to carry the Sentence into Execution and therefore advise his
Excellency to Issue a Pardon in behalf of the abovementioned
Michael Mitchell alias Michael Hewitt on Condition of his
leaving the Province immediately on his being discharged
from Prison and never to return again, and a Pardon issued
accordingly.

At a Council held in the Council Chamber on Saturday the
3^d day of February in the 19^th Year of his Lordship's Do-
minion Anno Domini 1770

Were Present
His Excellency Robert Eden Esq^r Governor

The Honble Daniel Dulany Esq^r Walter Dulany Esq^r
John Ridout Esq^r George Steuart Esq^r

Read the Transcript of the Conviction of Negro Tom the
Slave of a certain Jane Strawbridge of Somerset County, Con-
demned at the last November Court held in and for the said
County for the Murder of Negro Job the Slave of John Wil-
liams.
Ordered by His Excellency the Governor with the Advice
of this Board that a Death Warrant issue for the Execution
of the aforesaid Negro Tom on Wednesday the 4^th day of
April next which issued accordingly.

20^th March 1770.
To

His Excellency Robert Eden Esq^r Governor and Com-
mander in Chief in and over the Province of Maryland.
The Petition of the Subscribers humbly Sheweth unto your
Excellency that Jane Strawbridge of Somerset County and
Province of Maryland in October in the Year of Our Lord

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