I John Burke sign his Majesty's Solicitor
General of and in the Caribbean Islands in America do hereby certify that
a negro boy named Peter who, I am informed and believe was brought to
this Island Antigua by Mr. Gebulon Perkins, and left by him with Nanny
Stevenson late of this island _ her but now declared, it was some time
ago committed by me to the common goal of this island, to be tried for
a burglary and felony-and that the said slave Peter still remains in custody,
and cannot now be tried, by Union of the Existence of Martial Law-nor
can he be delivered to the said Gebulon Perkins as the said Gebulon Perkins
as desired
Given under my hand
and seal at St. John in
Antigua, the 30th day
of April 1795
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