Bertie County NcArchives Court.....Green, William H.  October 15, 1808
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Source: Edenton Gazette   Thurs. Oct. 20, 1808
Written: October 15, 1808
Recorded: October 20, 1808

  
To DOCTOR CARGIL MASSENBURG of Wake County in the STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
  You will take notice that the Grand Jury of Bertie County Court have made a 
presentment against your Negro man, PETER, and that by virtue of a capias to 
me directed, attested by the Clerk of the said Court, I now hold the said 
negro in Custody, and he will receive his trial at the next term of the said 
Courtm to be held at the Court House in Windsor on the second Monday in 
November next.

  This notice is given to you in conformity of an Act of the General Assembly 
passed at Raleigh, in the year 1794, entitled, "An act to prevent the owners 
of slaves from hiring to them their own time, to make compensation to Patrols, 
to restrain the abuses by free negroes and mulattoes."

                                               WILLIAM H. GREEN, 
                                          SHERIFF OF BERTIE COUNTY
Windsor, Oct. 15, 1808

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