At a Court held at the Court House in NewBern on Monday the 4th. February 1771. For the Trial of Scip a Negroe Slave the property of James Coor being Charged by Mary Worsley of Burglary in Breaking into the House of the said W[orsley] in the Night of the 29th. Ulto. and threatning the life of the said Mary and other Wrongs then and the[re] Feloniously Committed—

Present
Ric[hard] Blackledge
Richard Cogdell—
Frederick Becton—} Esquires Justices

Timonty Clear
Samuel Frazier
Levi Dawson
William Good} Gentlemen Freeholders and Owners of Slaves—

The Prisoner being Charged in Court pleaded not Guilty, the[ereup]on the said Mary W[orsley] being duly swo[rn] to the several Charges [against] the said Scip whch upon the further [Testmo]ny of Joseph Ashbury the Facts Alledged ag[ainst] the said Scip being fully proved—

The Court were Unanimously of Opinion that the said Negroe Scip is Guilty—

Ordered that the Sheriff of Craven County Cause the said Slave Scip to be Hanged by the Neck untill he be Dead on Fryday next—

And the Court further Certify that the Value of the said Slave is Eighty Pounds Proclamation money