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Shoar of the Proceedings in their Circuit held in
September
last, whereby It appears that they had passed Sentence
of
Death upon three white men, namely, William James
George
Simonett and William Jones and on One Negro man
called
Ignatius the Slave of the Reverend Mr Hugh
Deans of Balti-
more County for breaking open the Store house of
a certain
William Dallam of the sd County, and
stealing Goods to a
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considerable Value; and also that they had passed Sentence
of
Death upon Negro Phill the Slave of Mr Thomas
Baldwyn of
Ann Arundel County for breaking open the Storehouse of
Mr
Thomas Worthington in the sd County and
stealing several
Goods from thence to the Value of about Ten
Pounds sterling;
and that they had passed Sentence of Death at
Calvert
County Assizes on Benjamin Tucker and a Negro Man
named
Roger for breaking the Storehouse of Mr Ireland
and taking
from thence about the Value of Six Pounds sterling;
and at
Charles County Assizes that they had passed Sentence of
Death
upon a certain Thomas Compton for Horse Stealing, And
It
also appearing to this Board by the Return of the said
Justices
that in Baltimore County William Jones had made a
voluntary
Confession of his Crime, and that a Magistrate of the
said
County had promised tp intercede for a pardon for him,
&
that Negro Ignatius was an Object of Mercy, It is
therefore
the humble Advice of this Board to his Excellency that
he be
pleased to grant a pardon to the said William Jones and
to
Negro Ignatius and to order Warrants to issue for the Exe-
cution of William James and George Simonett: And It appear-
ing that in Ann Arundel County upon Application of
Mr
Thomas Baldwyn to spare the Life of his Negro
called Phill
upon Condition of his being immediately transported
out of
the Province It is ordered with the Advice of this Board
that a
Pardon issue accordingly: And it appearing likewise in
Cal-
vert County by the sd Return that Benjamin
Tucker was a
young man, and this his first Offence and that the
Negro was
an Object of Mercy, and a Petition being preferred to
this
Board, signed by many of the Inhabitants of the said
County
praying that the Life of the said Benjamin Tucker may
be
spared It is ordered that a Pardon issue for Negro Roger,
and
also that a Pardon issue for Benjamin Tucker upon his
leaving
the Country within One month from this Day, or that he
give
Security for his good Behaviour in the sum of Two
hundred
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