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Therefore your Petitioner most humbly prays your Excellency and
the Honourable Council will take her Case into their mature Consid-
eration and Grant her such relief as they shall think fit. And your
Petitioner as in duty Bound will Ever pray

We the Subscribers do Certify that what is set forth above is
strictly true.
Fran^s Ware
G. B. Causin
Walter Pye
Henry Hagan
John Sanders
Raphael Neale
Will: Tyre
Joseph Matthews
Belairs Posey

I the Subscriber do Certify that John Arms son of the within
named Stacey Arms, Is hired to me this present year for which I am
to give him three hundred pounds of Pork and four Barrels Corn,
which is for the support of the within named Stacey Arms & her two
daughters And that the said John Arms was hired to me the last year
after the same manner on Purpose for the support of his mother and
two Sisters John Vardin
Charles County Aug^t 5. 1781

August 5

[Joseph Dashiell, Snow hill, to Gov. Lee.] (Fav^d by
M^r Rob^t Pitt)

The Barer M^r Rob^t Pitts being Informed that There was a Com-
plaint lodged with your Excellency & the Council against him and that
I had a process against him Immediately Delivered him self to Geo.
Corbin Esq^r Lieut, of Accomack, and gave him a bond to apeare when
Called for, sumtime last week he Came to me with an intention if I
had any thing against him to answer to the Charge, and showd a very
Grate willingness to Abide your Ex^l & Councells Determination in
consequence of which I have taken his bond in the Penelty of One
thousand pounds specie to appeare before you within Ten Days.
Upon my arival home from the Assembly I made all the Inquiry
in my power to see if I Could find any body of M^r Pitts acquaintance
that had Discovered any Change in his Conduct or any thing in him
that showed an Inimical Disposition, to every Question I was an-
swered in the Negative, and from what M^r Henry Dennes & Capt
Walley has Inform^d me I am inclined to think that M^r Pitts Charac-
ter has bin much Misrepresented, and I am of oppinion that if he was
a person of Bad Character that he Could not have procured a Cer-
tificate signd by such a number of the most respectable Gen^t in the

August 5