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Dinner William Wright told him the Goal was broke and
asked him if he would go out but this Deponent refused to go
out of Goal. About half an hour after this a Negro of Esq^r
Lee's found that the Goal was broke and the Negro made a
Noise upon which Wright brought the Tools immediately to
the Deponent which Tools was hid by the said Wright M^r
Lee immediately came in the Goal with several Negroes and
enquired who was the Person that broke the Goal and several
Prisoners informed him that William Wright and a Negro
broke the Goal. M^r Lee asked Wright why he used him so ill in
breaking his Goal as he knew there was Criminals in there
and what he intended to do with them. Will Wright told the
Sheriff that he intended to order them to stay in Goal until
he returned which would be in three or four days and that he
had a right and would break Goal whenever it was in his
Power upon which M^r Lee took him and had him given Six
Stripes and then brought him back in Goal and Wright said
immediately and as soon as he could get his Liberty and meet
with M^r Lee he would beat him. One of the Prisoners asked
Wright if he should kill him upon which Wright said let him
Die and be Damned. After that day none of the Family could
walk to the Kitchen withgut being used by Wright and Don-
castle with Blackguard Language whenever he saw M^rs Lee he
would call her Jezable dry bones and the Sheriff Whipping
Dick. This Deponent further saith that Doncastle hath often
advised him to break Goal and that he would recommend him
to a Brother of his in Virginia where he might live and the
Sheriff never hear of him, and that from the time he came to
Goal until he was released the Prisoners always had a plenty
of Provision a hot Meal of Meat once every day and Milk and
Bread or Hommony and Fish for their Breakfasts. This
Deponent saith Doncastle kept Beef several days in Goal and
then sent it to Port Tobacco to shew the Gentlemen and at
the time this Deponent came in Goal the Prisoners had no
other disorder but the Itch which was a few days after
Fentham was released. his
William X Watts
Mark
Charles County ss. 25^th April 1770.
The above Deposition was taken before me one of his Lord-
ship's Justices of the Peace for the County aforesaid.
John Winter

Charles County ss^t 25^th April 1770 The Deposition of Mary
Watts aged Twenty seven years or thereabouts being sworn
on the holy Evangels of Almighty God Deposeth and saith that
on the second day of January 1769 her Husband William

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