692 Appendix.

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No. 8
Letter No. 96

much Contribute; wherefore as soon as I was enabled and deter-
mined to give the Indians this Interview (though at a Season I
should not have fixed upon but through Necessity) I have Imediately
notifyed it to you by Express in full perswasion that you will en-
deavour to Comply with what ever may be thought proper and
expedient to be done by your Government in this Matter at this
Critical Conjunction

Black Book
No. 6
Letter No. 84
March 16
1745/6
[Bright-
well makes
his Mark]

[Deposition of Peter Brightwell of Prince Georges County, taken
by P. Thomas]
This deponent being duely sworn deposeth & saith that on the
11^th day of this Instant, being at the House of John Nicholls of the
said County & falling into discourse with the Wife of the said
Nicholls she said to him this deponent that she wish'd she lived
within five Miles of a certain House, that she would run the risque
of her neck but she would burn it. She said that she would set it on
fire & then make her escape as fast as she could for fear of the Am-
munition she Suspected to be in it. This deponent then told her it
was dangerous to do such things, to which she replied, Well, she
would do it. Then this deponent Ask'd her why she would do it, She
answered because they would never for these Seven or five years
(this deponent do's not remember w^ch) suffer any Woman to come
into it, even the Wife of the Master of the House had been known
to be at the Plantation a Month or five Weeks together & was never
Suffer'd to come into it. This deponent Ask'd her whose House
it was she Spoke of, she Answered Arnold Livers at Monococy.
And that whenever the said Arnold Livers & his sett or company
went into the said house there was always a Watch or Guard set
About it. She aded that she had this information from a Woman
named ——— Mitchell as this deponent thinks, who is a Roman
Catholic.

Black Book
No. 6
Letter No. 82
March 18

1745/6

[Deposition of Richard Warfield of Annarundel County taken by
P. Thomas.]

This deponent being duely sworn deposeth & saith that he this
deponent heard one Augustine Gambol say that he the said Gambol
heard one Silvanus Marriot say, that meeting with Daniel Hearn
sometime after the report of the Pretenders Son's landing in Scot-
land, he the said Hearn ask'd him the said Marriot if he had heard
of King Charles, or Prince Charles's landing, that he understood
the said Hearn to have Spoke in a Jesting manner as to an old ac-
quaintance.

That he this deponent hath not to the best of his knowledge Spoke
with or Seen the said Hearn these seven Years Past

[Deposition of Robert Ridgeley of Annarundel County taken by
P. Thomas.]