122 Provincial Court Proceedings, i6f<)/8o.

Liber W. C.

That about twenty three yeares agoe, the Deponent being sarvant
to Cap^t Cornwallis, the said Cornwallis bought one Negro man
named Charles Cabe w^ch Neagro doth now pretend that the Depon^t
Can sweare that Cap^t Cornwallis brought him into this Province
ffor the terme of One and twenty yeares, but the Depon^t saith that
hee Knoweth nothing concerning his freedome, neither did hee ever
heare his Master Cap^t Cornwallis say anything of his Ever being

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ffree but onely a report ffrom the said Neagro himselfe and the
seamen on board the shipp that they came in, and ffurther saith not
Joshua Doyne
Feb^ry 3^d 1679
Then came before me Mary Mirralls aged about fforty yeares
examined and Sworne saith
That about twenty three yeares since the Depon^t being sarvant to
Cap^t Cornwallis, the said Cornwallis bought one Neagro man in
the Kingdome of England ffor twenty ffive pounds sterling named
Charles Cabe, wch Negro doth now prtend that the Depon^t Can
swear that Capt Cornwallis brought him into this Province ffor the
terme of twenty one yeares, but your Depon^t saith that she Can say
nothing as to his ffreedome after the terme of any time ffor she
never heard anything ffrom her Master of his being ffree after any
time, but onely a fflying report ffrom him and Likewise the seamen
on board the shipp they came in And ffurther sayeth not
Joshua Doyne
Which Deposicons aforesaid being read and heard in the p^rsence
of Charles Cabe a Neagro and Thomas Sprigg his Master, and by
the Justices here ffully understood, Itt is the oppinion and Judgm^t
of the Justices here this day to witt the Eleaventh day of ffebruary
in the ffifth yeare of the Dominion of the Right hono^ble Charles
Lord Baltemore &c Annoq Dominj One thousand six hundred seav-
enty nine that the said Charles Cabe is a Slave

To the hono^ble The Justices of the Prov^a11 Court
The humble peticon of James Anderson
Sheweth
That your Peticon^r was consigned to M^r John Addison of this
Province by Thomas Chapman of old England Marchant and was to
serve by Indenture ffoure yeares ffrom his arrivall in this Province,
as by M^r Jn^o Addison can bee made appeare, w^ch time of servitude
was expired on y^e two and twentieth day of December last, Yet
nothwithstanding his Master Marke Cordea refuses to give him a
discharge and make him satisfaccon for his Corne and Cloathes,
That your Peticoner is much afflicted by lamenesse w^ch is now and
hath been broke out three monthes in such manner that unlesse
some speedy remidy bee taken hee is in greate danger of his life,
That the said Marke Cordea hath neglected the Peticoner and never
endeavoured ffor his cure, soe that yo^r Peticoner applyed himselfe