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himself, and also to bring his Children, if he had any, up in the same
Religion and Faith, and in a few Days after, the said Overseer came
from Mass again, and said he saw the said Ellis administer an Oath,
and marry a certain Gerrard Jordon, a Protestant, to Mildred
Mahony, a Catholic, in the same Manner; which Facts were done
about last March was twelve Months:
That a certain John Lockwood, who had been at work for Mr.
Molyneux, a Priest, in Charles County, in the Time of the late
Rebellion, the best Part of a Summer Season, (which Lockwood was
a Tennant to this Deponent) , when he came home, told this Deponent,
that Mr. Molyneux had been from home a long Time and brought
with him at his Return, two Strangers, who could not speak English,
and that on this Deponent his telling of it to one John Jones, a Roman
Catholic, he said he saw five Strangers which Mr. Molyneux brought
into Saint Mary's County, and bought them Horses, that the said
Jones said, he enquired what they were, at the Priest's, who answered
they were Wappalow Priests, but the said Jones said they were no
more Priests than he was, being too gay drest. That this Deponent's
Negroes are perverted and turn'd Roman Catholics, unknown to
him, notwithstanding he has brought the most of them up, from
Children, in the Protestant Religion, by learning them their Prayers,
and sending them to the Protestant Church, with his Family; an
Instance of which happened lately in his Family, and occasioned a
Discovery, viz. One of his Negroes fell sick, and it was thought he
would die, and upon this Deponent's asking him if he should send for
a Clergyman of the Church of England, the Negro said no, for he
would have the Priest; that in a. few Days after, Priest Ellis wrote
to this Deponent to know if he would permit him to visit the Negro.
That this Deponent, for several Years past, has been obliged to
board his Children abroad for Education, there being none but
Romish Schoolmasters near him; and this Deponent further saith,
that in his Neighbourhood, the Papists are more numerous than the
Protestants, and that there are several Popish Chapels wherein Mass
is performed constantly; that lately one Thomos Bridgid, a Prostes-
tant, married a Papist, in said County, that he the said Bridgid, and
his Mother, told him, that since he had been married, the Papists had
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L. H. J.
Liber No. 47
October 29
p. 304
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often endeavoured to turn him to the Popish Religion, by telling him
that all Protestants were damned; that one Henry Howe a Papist,
told his, the said Bridgid's Wife, that he hoped she would not become
a Protestant, for she knew, as well aa he did, that they were all lost.
That he the said Bridgid was going to carry his Child, to the
Protestant Church, to be christened, and the said Howe being at his
House as the same Time, he desired Howe to lend him his Horse to
go to Church; that Howe answered, he had rather his Horse should
go to Hell, that Parson Brown could not Christen his Child because he
was a Heretic, for that a Parson had christened a Sister of his once,
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