358 Letters to the Governor and Council

July 16
Red Book
No. 26
Letter 120

Portsmouth where a Guardship lay to protect them & they would
get 18 or 2o£ hard money p hogshead and that he heard the said
Anderson say he Anderson was in the Barge at the time when the
plundering party with one Robinson was at Lower Marlbrough &
that on this deponents making some Grogg he heard him telling
M^r Heathman sonething about the Engagement in the Bay between
the Porpus & Hibernia, but cannot tell the particulars
Sworn before this 10^th day July 1781 E Johnson

July 16
Red Book
No. 26
Letter 121

[Deposition of James Stone before E. Johnson, Calvert County]

The Deposition of James Stone aged about thirty three years being
duly sworn on the Holy Evangels of Almighty God deposeth &
saith that on Friday the 29^th June last he was returning down the
Road he met a certain Thomas Heathman and after some Conver-
sation this deponent asked him what was become of the Man they
had seen at Hunting Town (that day) who had a pass from
Richard Barnes Esq^r Heathman answered that he left him at M^r
Oggs & that they had been drinking Toddy together and asked this
deponent why he left Town so soon that had this deponent staid he
might have had a sufficiency of Toddy as he had treated him (Heath-
man) this dep^t made answer he did not want any of his Toddy why
says Heathman he was the Man that took our Tobacco at the mouth
of Patuxent River & further saith that Heathman & this deponent
lodged at M^r James Sewalls that night & that Heathman said the
Man told him if he Heathman had claimed the protection of the
English & have gone with them he would have been satisfied for the
Tobacco they had taken from him (or words to that Effect)

July 18

[Jn^o Gwinn, Port Tobacco to His Excellency Thom Sim Lee Esq^r
Governor and the Honourable Council.]

May it please Your Excellency & Honours. In Consequence of the
within order, I take the liberty of inclosing it, and hope your Excel-
lency and Honors will Comply with the Contents.

Charles County ss

At a Court for the State of Maryland held at Charles Town in and
for the County aforesaid on the Monday before the second Tuesday
in and 12^th day of March Anno Domini 1781

Before the Worshipfull

Walter Hanson, Daniel Jenifer, John Dent, Robert Young, War-
ren Dent, Richard Barnes, William Harrison, John Parnham, Walter
H. Jenifer, Joshua Sanders, Walter Winter of Jn^o, Samuel Hanson
J^r, Hoskins Hanson, John Morton, Bennett Dyson & John Diggs.
Gentlemen Justices thereunto legally Authorised and Assigned,
Jn^o Gwinn Clk; Benjamin Cawood Gent. Sheriff.