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PG-P.742.019
6 May 1742:31 (699)
Annapolis, April 30, 1742, At the provincial court held
here this month, seven Negroes receiv'd sentence of death,
for the murder of their master Jeremiah Pattison, about a
year ago, in Calvert County. . . [14 lines] The Negro
fellow that was executed here behav'd with as much
resolution and unconcernedness as possibly could be: As he
rode to the gallows he sung all the way with the executioner
(who was one of his colour) a Negro Song; which, as the
Executioner told me afterwards, was about war and fighting
in their own country: And meant, I suppose, to animate him
against the fears of death.
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