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

Lib. C. B.
No. 20

Watts was brought to Goal and a few days after he was in
Goal she came to see him and that her Husband and William
Wright applied to her to bring Tools to them in Goal to break
it open which she accordingly did and delivered them to Wil-
liam Wright. In a few days after this Deponent came to the
Goal again and her Husband delivered her the Tools again
and desired that she would not bring them to Wright. Will
Wright a very little time afterwards applied to this Deponent
to purchase a large Gimblet from Port Tobacco but this De-
ponent did not purchase any as Wright did not pay her the
Cash for it as he Promised. This Deponent further saith that
William Wright applied to her several times for Tools to
break the Goal and upon Persuasion of the said Wright this
Deponent delivered to Jane Turner a Criminal a Chizel and
Gimblet. This Deponent was hired to Esq^r Lee at the time the
Goal was broke open and believes that Wright broke open the
Goal with the Tools that she gave him. At any time before the
Goal was broke open this Deponent was admitted to her
Husband but after the Goal was broke open she was not ad-

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mitted on the Plantation for some time. This Deponent further
saith that she heard Ignatius Green tell William Wyatt Fent-
ham at March Court at Port Tobacco that at the Time the
Prisoners was breaking the Goal that he continued Dancing
the whole time to drown the Noise.
her
Mary X' Watts
mark

25^th April 1770. The within Deposition taken before me one
of his Lordship's Justices of the Peace for Charles County.
John Winter

Ignatius Middleton being sworn on the Holy Evangels of
Almighty God Deposeth and Saith that at March Court in the
year 1769 he was applied to by the Deputy Sheriffs to Victual
several Prisoners which he accordingly did two Meals a Day
and found them Bed Cloaths when they stayed in Town of
Nights.

May the 5^th 1770. Certified and Sworn before J. Hawkins.
Belain Posey aged thirty years being duly Sworn on the Holy
Evangels of Almighty God Deposeth and Saith that he was
last Christmas at Richard Lee Esq^r where Charles County
Goal was kept, the said Lee told him several of the Prisoners
were to be released by Virtue of a late Act of Assembly and
desired him to take with him a former Act of that kind and