To the Sheriff of Chowan County
Greeting
You are hereby Authorised and Ordered to Summon Three Justices of the Peace for said County & Four Freeholders Owners of Slaves to meet at the Court House on Monday the first day of December next at the Hour of Ten OClock in the forenoon, in order to hold a Court for the Trial of Negroe Grainge the property of Jennings Baker of Virginia for the attrocious Crime of endeavouring to Stir up the Slaves for the Diabolical purpose of Murdering their Masters and Mistresses, and for so doing this shall be your sufficient Authority Given under my hand at Edenton this 30th. day of Novr. 1783.
State of North Carolina
Chowan County—}
The Justices & Freeholders, as Ordered above to be Summoned met at the Court House in Edenton on the Trial of Negro Grainge the Property of Jennings Baker of Virginia. December 1st. 1783
Present
Thomas Benbury}
Charles Johnson} Esqrs. Justices
Michael Payne}
William Bennett}
William Littlejohn} Freeholders
George Gray}
John Mushrow}
The Court Accordingly to [make] Consideration Qualified agreeable to the several Acts of Assembly & Proceed to Tryal & On Examing the Testimony The Court Do Adjudge & Pass Sentance that the Said Grainge, Shall have Both his Ears Cut of, & have two hundred Stripes well Laid on his Bare Back, at the Carts Tale—
ThoBenbury
Chas. Johnson
MichPayne
GeoGray
JohnMushrow
WillmBennett
WmLittlejohn
Justices Peace Willm. Bennett
Thos. Benbury Willm. Littlejohn
Chas. Johnson Geor. Gray
Michl Payne John Mushrow
