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a negro woman ami two little* negro children, one of them a Bnckiug child, and then clapping their pistols to thin nlUnnnnt's breast, they compelled him to go with them to the next plantation, belonging to .James Hart, at the distance of alumt half a mile.hisEdmund E. L. Liston. mark.Aflirmed July 27th, 1717, before me, Thomas ilopkiuson.James Hart of Appoipiinimy hundred, in the county of New Castle, in Delaware, being sworn on the holy Evangelists of Almighty (Sod, did depose and declare*, that on Sunday, the twelfth day of this instant, July, about three of the* clock in the afternoon.several people whom this deponent took to he Spaniards to the number of fifteen, and one man with a laced hat whom this deponent took to be an Englishman, (being mueb fairer than the rest) came around to this deponent's house, situate about lmlf a mile from flu* river side, together with Edmund Liston, a neighbor of this deponent's whom they had forced along with them. Tlmt this deponent seeing them come at some distance, shut up and bolted his doors ami got his gun in readiness, lest they should prove to be enemies. That they came directly up and surrounded this deponent's house, ami some of them pursued a negro girl belonging to this deponent, which this deponent perceived through a window, that sumo one of the said company called out to this deponent in good English, to surrender or they would set tire to the house, and several bullets were tired into the room where this deponent and his wife and children were ; that one of the bullets wounded this deponent’s wife in thehip ami she hied very much, whereupon the this deponent thought lit to surrender, and accordingly opened the doors of his house! thereupon the Spaniards seized this deponent and hound his hands and immediately plundered the lumse and took away the above mentioned negro, almost all of this deponent s wearing anpare], a pair of gold buttons and several other things to the value of about seventy pounds. That when they had done plundering this deponent’s house as aforesaid, they forced this deponent away with them to E. L.'s plantation about half a mile from this deponent's, where they tyod up into bundles the plunder they had got at this deponent s house and the said Edmund Liston s, and having carried it on hoard the boat, they went oif to the pilot boat from whence they came. Ja.wks Haut.Sworn July 27th, 1717, before me, Thomas ilopkiuson.STRUCK AND HI LI, EDstreet Maun still (Cm* hiJOc4l falso 1 for ePresiitllOUf“prei live tTheA 1was n and s the o set o:ofconsiTilhornTb« 1taunt ; “Stoistock (he ti Th Whittire ethereiuR I burnl’hbut v engii th ti obttti tin-1had I WJ preKtTii dn winbUt $1»0 on tl buy, and IITWhitcarrition
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Wilmington Delaware State Journal
Wilmington, Delaware, US
Thu, Jul 22, 1880
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