252 Letters to the Governor and Council

May 23

what he hath set forth in the within Petition is true we therefore
recommend him to your Excellencys Clemency. We the Subscribers
were present when the within mentioned fine was imposed and are
of opinion that the same was immoderate and excessive

Tho^s Semmes

Thomas Smallwood

John Delozer

John Muschett

Bayne Smallwood

Gerred Johnson

Ja^s Farnandis

Fran^s Shepard

Clement Clements

Fran^s Ware

Robert C. Hall

Lawson Luckett

Henry Barnes

Philip Warder

Tho^s Harrison

W^m McConchie

Peter Farnandis

Samuel Middeton

Walter Pye

John Ward

Zachariah Price

Hez. Garner

P. H. Marbury

Rich^d Elgin

Joseph Gray

John Clements

Jo^s Simms

Tho^s A. Dyson

J. Heaislip Ju^r

William Cox

David L. Ward

Thos. Craycroft

Henry M. Hanson

John Hall

Chas. Mankin

Charles Goodrick

William Brawner

Theo^s Hanson

Cha^s Sewall Jun^r

Benj. Douglass

Charles Clements

Tho^s Evans

Henry Ward

William Smoot

Notley Luckett

Thomas Ward

Joseph Wheeler

Jn^o Gwinn

Peter Dent

Alex^r McDonald

Mathew Garner

John Ward

John Gopher

May 23
Red Book

No. 27
Letter 82

[John Scott, Rob^t Maxwell, James Claypoole, Sam^l Davis, Kent

County, Chester Town, to Gov Lee. ]

We beg leave to mention to your Excellency; That some of the
Gentⁿ in the last Commission of the Peace for this County never have
qualified, or can we hear that they intend doing it, and that we are
greatly in want of Magistrates to do the business. We beg therefore
to recommend to your Excellency to give us a new Commission of
the Peace; and to leave out those who have not as yet Acted in this
Station. They are William Granger, Thomas Smyth J^r William
Maxwell, and Isaac Freeman And that your Excellency, will please
to put in their Places; Doct^r Thomas Vandyke, John Bolton, Colonel
Richard Graves, and Abraham Falconar. We also recommend,
Doct^r Vandyke to be put in as a Justice of the Orphans Court In-
stead of Thomas Smyth Jun^r

May 23

[Joseph Nelson, Charles County To his Excellency Thomas Simm
Lee Esquire]

The petition of Joseph Nelson of Port Tobacco parish and Charles
County most humbly Sheweth that a Presentment was rendered
against him by the Grand Inquest for the Body of Charles County
by which he was charged with having assaulted a certain Virlinder
Haislup upon which Presentment at last November term be sub-
mitted to the Court who imposed a Fine of Thirty pounds State