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VGW(PU.776.004
16 Feb 1776:13 (55 Supplement)
At a committee appointed and held for Hanover county, at the
courthouse, on Thursday, the 25th of January, 1776. Bennett
White appeared before the committee, agreeable to a summons,
to answer sundry charges lodged against him, which are as
follows: That he had been guilty of having a subscription
ball; that he assured his subscribers, that if the committee
should notice it he would take the whole blame on himself;
and that he had allowed gaming in his house. Which charges
being examined into, were sufficiently proved; but the said
Bennett White declaring his uneasiness of having done any
thing that had caused the displeasure of the committee,
begged that they wound pass it over, as the first offence,
and that he would pay the strictest regard to the
association in the future, as well as demean himself, in
every respect, a firm friend to the rights of America.
These concessions being deemed satisfactory, Mr. White was
discharged from farther prosecution. Extract from the
proceedings. [signed] William Bentley, clerk.
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