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Certificate from the Salisbury District Superior Court concerning a pardon for William Adams et al.
North Carolina. Superior Court of Law & Equity (Salisbury District)
September 1779
Volume 14, Page 340

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CERTIFICATES OF PERSONS RECOMMEND'D TO MERCY BY JURORS, SALISBURY COURT, SEPTEMBER TERM, 1779.


State of North Carolina, Salisbury
Sup. Court. Sept. Term, 1779.

This is to certify that the following Persons, who were tried at the said Court, and capitally convicted of High Treason, were by the several Petit Juries, who passed on their said Trials humbly recommended to Mercy (to-wit):

WILLIAM ADAMS.
MOSES CHEETWOOD.
SHADRICK CHEETWOOD.
MICHAEL SITES.
FREDERICK WISE.

Test.

H. Giffard, C. H.