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tion will take the matter under their consideration and mani-
fest the impropriety and injustice of inflicting punishment on
a person, no other wise culpable than by being incapable of
producing the absconded party, whose flight was occasioned
by a breach of that good order which was by a former Con-
vention enjoined
R^d Henderson.

Ann Arundel County Sc^t 4^th Aug^t 1775.
Rich^d Henderson made oath that the foregoing narrative is
to the best of his knowledge just & true.
Sworn before me. W^m Eddis.

Prince Georges County Aug^t 3^d 1775.
I Thomas Macgill being one of the Committee of the County
afores^d make oath on the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God,
that on Tuesday last after Jasper Wirt with a body of People
had expressed great vengeance against Rich^d Henderson, I
was in Company with James Hoggan, & Jasper Wirt coming
up M^r Hoggan asked him why he was so violent, on which
Jasper said that he had now dispersed the Company, but they
would meet again on Monday. M^r Hoggan asked him what
the people would meet for, to which Jasper answered that he
had not yet forgot the building of M^r Henderson's house.
Sworn to before me Tho^s Macgill.
Chris^t Lowndes.

(N^o 9)
To the Honourable the Delegates of the Freemen of the

Province of Maryland in Convention now assembled.
The Memorial of James Christie Jun^r of Baltimore County,
Sheweth.
That your Memorialist did on the 22^d day of February last,
write the Letter, a Copy of which is hereunto annexed to his
friend and Cousin German Lieu^t Colonel Christie in the Island
of Antigua. That at the time of writing the said letter, your
Memorialist unfortunately could not approve, of the measures

then pursued in this Province, as a Petition from the Hon^ble

Continental Congress, was then lying at the Foot of the
Throne of Great Britain, the result of which was not at that
time known in America.
That the said Letter having been intercepted by means to
your memorialist altogether unknown, was on the 13^th July
instant, laid before the Committee of Baltimore County, who
came to such Resolutions on the same, as will appear to this
Convention, by Copy of the proceedings hereunto annexed.
That in pursuance of the said Resolutions, your Memorialist
has already suffered a painful imprisonment, and hath paid to
the Guard appointed by the Committee, the Sum of Thirty

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