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his Family and behaved with the utmost Insolence on all
Occasions so that he this Deponent was obliged to confine him
in the said Goal, for which purpose he this Deponent was ob-
liged to lead him the said Duncastle by the Collar to the Goal
and when he got the said Duncastle to the Door of the Goal
the said Duncastle Struck him this Deponent in the Forehead
with his Fist which obliged this Deponent to return the blow
and knocked the said Duncastle some Distance and then this
Deponent Horsewhipped the said Duncastle for his Behaviour
as aforesaid. And this Deponent further saith that one Ig-
natius Green of Charles County was a Prisoner sometime in
the Goal with Duncastle 'til the year 1766 when an Act passed
for his Relief and in order to comply with the Act he this
Deponent procured two County Magistrates to examine the
said Green and others as to their Effects when the said Green
behaved in such a manner as to induce the Magistrates to be-
lieve the said Green would perjure himself and that he this
Deponent afterwards indulged the said Green to go and bring
all his Effects before the Magistrates on his the said Green's
promising to return instead of which the said Green absconded
for near Twenty Months before he this Deponent could retake

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him which he this Deponent did at last by way laying him the
said Green and after he retook the said Green he committed
him to Goal and he this Deponent further saith that he was
frequently threatened with Suits for the said Green's Escape
his Creditors believing the said Green had sufficient to pay his
Debts but concealed them to defraud his Creditors and this
Deponent further saith that from his own Knowledge and by
good Information the said Green had Considerable Effects
wherewith he might have Satisfied his Creditors their Claims
or a great part thereof And that the said Green confessed to
him this Deponent that he had Sold a Horse after the Act
and converted the Money to his own use And this Deponent
further saith that the said Green is a most impudent saucy
Fellow and capable by Inclination to do any bad Act. This
Deponent further saith that the said Green complained against
him this Deponent to Charles County Court for False Impris-
onment and upon a hearing the Court recommitted him to the
present Sheriff of Charles County. This Deponent further
saith that the said Green also brought Suit against him this
Deponent for false Imprisonment which Suit was Dismissed
the said Green's Attorney telling him on the hearing of his
Complaint before the Court that he was a Rascal and had
deceived him. And further saith not.
Taken before Cha^s Som^t Smith
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