Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677.     25
        Robert Carvile                              Liber N N
            agt
        Stephen Murty
        the Same
          agt
        Wm Russell
        the same
          agt
        the same admr Thomas Chandler
        Samuel Raspin
          agt
        J no Stone.

        Upon the petition of Edward Compton of Calvert County That he p. 324
        came a Servant into this Province in the yeare 1668 & by Indenture
        was to serve six yeares & that he hath served Out his time, & dureing
        the said terme absent himselfe from his service certaine tymes to
        the incurring of certaine penaltyes according to the Strictnesse of
        the Acts of Assembly in that case made & provided & the said pen
        altyes the Petitioner hath suffered performed & for the said defaults
        Served the time he was adjudged to Serve & hath also Since the
        death of Mr Beckwith his Master in the time of the late Overseer
        Alexander Younger Suffered extremity of Corporall punishment
        which the Rt Honble the Lord Propry had remitted & pardoned, so
        that he conceiveth he Ought to be free & to have been so the last
        month of May & that the prseflt admr of his said Master Beckwith
        doth refuse to sett him free.
          Which said petition being read the twentith day of June in the
        Second yeare of his Lopps Dominion &c Annocp Doth 1677 It is the
        judgment of the Court here that the petitionr is free & that the
        administrator allow the Petitioner for the time he hath Overserved,
        with his Corne & cloathes according to Act of Assembly.

        Thomas Walker
           agt
        Mary Roe exrs Edwd Roe
        Michael Miller
           agt
        George Browne & Bennit
          Stairs
        John Allen
          agt
        Robert Thompson
        the Same
          agt
        Richard Ambrose