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

Lib. C. B.
No. 20

Seventeen hundred and Sixty Nine was Possessed of a Negro
Man Slave called Tom who was Indicted in the County Court
of Somerset in November Term in the Year aforesaid for
Committing a Murder on a Negro Man Slave the Property
of a certain John Williams of the County aforesaid upon
which Indictment the said Negro Tom was arraigned Tryed
and Condemned of the Charge of the Indictment afs^d but
forasmuch as it appeared in Evidence on the Tryal that the
said Negro Tom at the time of Committing the Offence afs^d
was much Intoxicated with Liquor and that the aforesaid Act
was done immediately after the said Tom's being thrown into
a Bunch of Briers by the Slain in the Heat of Passion, Your
Petitioners therefore pray your Excellency's Clemency in
favor of the Prisoner and that you will be pleased to grant him
a Reprieve. And your Petitioners as in Duty bound will ever
pray.
Jane Strawbridge William Gullet
William Strawbridge Joseph Ward
John Bowland Matthew Ward
James Pope Jun^r William Warwick
Archibald Stett James Furniss
W^m Mathis William Fleming
Stephen Heath John Benston
George Gullet James Bowland.

Ordered by His Excellency the Governor that a Reprieve
issue during Pleasure on behalf of the said Negro Tom, which
Issued accordingly.

p. 88

At a Council held at the Governor's on Saturday the 31^st
day of March in the 19^th year of his Lordship's Dominion
Anno Domini 1770.
Were Present
His Excellency Robert Eden Esq^r Governor

Daniel Dulany Esq^r John Beale Bordley Esq^r
John Ridout Esq^r

His Excellency is pleased to lay before this Board the fol-
lowing Papers desiring their Advice thereon.
A Transcript of the Conviction of Reese Williams found
Guilty of a Robbery on the High Way in Queen Anns County,
at an Especial Court of Oyer and Terminer held in the said
County on the 2 I^st day of February last, which being Read and
Considered it was Ordered by his Excellency the Governor
with the Advice of this Board that a Reprieve Issue for the