At a Magistrates & Freeholders Court held at the Court House in Wilmington on Monday February 28th. 1768 on the Tryal of a negro fellow named Will charg'd with the Murder of his Master Bryant Lee, and Mary his Wife—
Present
Frederick Gregg
William Purviance
John Lyon} Esqr. Justices
Anthony Ward
William Wilkinson
John Campbell and
Samuel Marshall} Freeholders and Owners of Slaves—
Evidence sworn to prove the murder
Hudlin Huffham
The said Negro is found Guilty of the murder of his master & mistress And Ordered that the said negro fellow will be hung alive in Gibbets at the Gallows near Wilmington between this & Saturday next the 5th. of this Inst. March
The said Negro Valued at Eighty Pounds Proct. Money
I hereby Certify that the Aforegoing is a true Copy taken from the Records Lodged in the Clerks Office of New Hanover County & that the sum of Eighty Pounds Proclamation Money is the sum at which the said negro is Valued at Agreeable to Law—
John London C Ct.
Thos D Vaughan
Allowed
£80
1768
Negroe
