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     We have this day received information that a negro my family found to John Stewart and by him transferred to some person in Liverpool has lately been carried off to the West Indies, left bound to some person there.

     The hand Jury earnestly request the Worship full bench would write to the Justices in Liverpool for information on his subject, as a transition of this nature in its hundred of illegality of ? will be production of much injury to the community in preventing the negroes from binding out their children their children in future.

Shelburne
By Order of the Hand Jury
April 22 1794
James Cox, Foreman