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Frederick County March 22^th 1759 Will the Subscribers Justices
of the Peace for the County Afs.^d do Certify that Joseph Lucksin-
burg your Petitioner Has been for a Considerable time a Prisoner
In Custory of the sheriff of the afs.^d Co.^ty for Debt and therefore
Recommend As an Object of Charity.

Th.^o Beatty Pet.^r Bainbridge
Tho^s Norris Mos; Chapline

I hereby Certifie that Tho Beatty, Th.^o Norris Pet^r Bainbridge &
Mos. Chapline Subscribers to the Above Petition were at the time
of Signing and still are of his Lordships the Right Honourable the
Lord Proprietary 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
Anno 1759

SEAL Jno Darnall Clk

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JOHN METCALFE

To His Excellency Horatio Sharp Esq.^r Governor & Commander
In Chief, in and over the Province of Maryland; and to y^e Honour-
able the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly.

The Petition of John Metcalfe.
Humbly sheweth —

That your Petitioner is a Languishing Prisoner, in the Custody of
the Sheriff of Frederick County, for this three Years; for divers sums
of money, and Tobacco; which through great Losses, and Mis-
fortune, is rendered uncapable of discharging the same: Your
Petitioner is willing to surrender up all his Estate real, and personal,
for the benefit of his Creditors Humbly prays that your Excellency,
and Honours, will take his miserable unhappy Circumstances into
your Consideration, and grant him such relief as to your Excellency,
and honours, shall seem meet. And your Petitioner shall as in duty
bound ever Pray &c.

Frederick County — We the Subscribers Justices of the peace for
the said County, do certify that your Petitioner John Metcalfe is a

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