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Losses and other Misfortunes he is unable to Pay your Petitioners has
made Every Offer that is In his Power to his Creditors to no Purpose
Your Petitioner is willing to Surrender up All his Estate Both Real
and Personal for the Binifit of His Creditors and Humbly Prays
Your Excellency and Honnours will be Pleased to take his miserable
Condition into Your Serious Consideration And Grant him Relief
by an Act of Insolvency And your Petitioner as in Duty Bound will
Pray.
John Metcalfe
Frederick County
We the Subscribers Justices of the peace for the County aforesaid
do Certify that John Metcalfe Your Petitioner is a Prisoner a long
time in the County Goal Aforesaid for Debt and therfor we Recom-
mend him to Your Excellency and Honours as an Object of Charity
Th:o Beatty David Lynn
Jos Wood Mos; Chapline
Jos Smith Tho.s Norris
Pet.r Bainbridge
I hereby Certifie that Tho.s Beatty, Jos Wood Jos Smith Petr
Bainbridge David Lynn Mos Chapline & Tho.s Norris Subscribers to
the above Petition were at the time of signing and still are of his
Lordships the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietarys Justices of
the Peace for Frederick County. In Testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed the Public Seal of said County this
Twenty eighth day of March 1759 —
©John Darnall Clk
Fred Coty
JOHN TURNBULL
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To His Excellency Horatio Sharp Esq.r Governor, and Com-
mander in Chief, in, and over the Province of Maryland; and to the
Honourable the upper, and lower Houses of Assembly.
The Humble Petition of John Turnbull.
Humbly Sheweth
That your Petitioner is a poor Languishing Prisoner, in the Cus-
tody of the Sheriff of Frederick-County, allmost four years, for
divers Sums, and Tobacco, which by reason of great Losses, and
Misfortunes, has rendered him unable to discharge the same; but is
willing and desirous to surrender up, all his Estate both real, and
personal; for the benefit of his Creditors. Humbly Prays that your
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