| 4Lewis Evans Esq.... Sheriff
of the County of Adams
Some days ago was informed by
M' Justice Clark that the Wench Phebe placed
by the Court of Common Pleas in your care
during the Suite therein depending on her
accounts....hath been taken by Violence from
the territory...to the Appalusa and an atte
mpt there made to sell her as a Slave...by a
certain John Wells..the proof whereof is
contained in a Letter from the Commandant
of that place to M' Justice Clark and by hum
transmited to M' Duncan [sic] in the cause of
Phoebe pending in our Court as afores-----
M' Justice Dunbar says he is well acq-
uainted with the handwriting of the Commd.
of the Appalusa and can swear to it.... I have
met with no conclusive oppinion on this buson-
efs... but I have made up mine... which is that
it clearly rests with you to prosecute; for
it is from you, that the C. of comm pleas
has to demand the Woman... It is recomm
ended to one by M' Justice Clark to forward the
prosecution of Wells to effect... and request | 4Lewis Evans Esq.... Sheriff
of the County of Adams
Some days ago was informed by
M' Justice Clark that the Wench Phebe placed
by the Court of Common Pleas in your care
during the Suite therein depending on her
accounts....hath been taken by Violence from
the territory...to the Appalusa and an atte
mpt there made to sell her as a Slave...by a
certain John Wells..the proof whereof is
contained in a Letter from the Commandant
of that place to M' Justice Clark and by hum
transmited to M' Duncan [sic] in the cause of
Phoebe pending in our Court as afores-----
M' Justice Dunbar says he is well acq-
uainted with the handwriting of the Commd.
of the Appalusa and can swear to it.... I have
met with no conclusive oppinion on this buson-
efs... but I have made up mine... which is that
it clearly rests with you to prosecute; for
it is from you, that the C. of comm pleas
has to demand the Woman... It is recomm
ended to one by M' Justice Clark to forward the
prosecution of Wells to effect... and request |