your Master or some of the Family that
Phoebe had poisoned the Chocalate, and thereby prevent your Master's
eating it?

_Answr._ I do not know why I did not tell.

The mark of X Phillis.

[_Examination of Mark._]

MIDDLESEX ss:

The Examination of Mark a Negro Servant of John Codman late of
Charlstown deceased taken by Edmund Trowbridge & Thaddeus Mason
Esqrs. at Charlstown in the County of Middlesex the ---- Day of
July Anno Dom: 1755.

_Quest._ What is your name?

_Answr._ Mark.

_Quest._ Are you a Servant or Freeman?

_Answr._ A Servant. Mr. John Codman decd: was my master.

_Quest._ How long was you his Servant?

_Answr._ For several Years before & untill his Death.

_Quest._ Do you know what occasion'd your sd. Master's Death?

_Answr._ He was poisoned.

_Q._ What was he poisoned with?

_A._ With Poison that came from the Doctor's.

_Q._ What Doctor?

_Answr._ Doctr. Clark that lives at the North End of Boston.

_Q._ What sort of Poison was that?

_A._ It was a White Powder put up in a Paper.

_Q._ How do you know that that Powder came from Doctr. Clark's?

_A._ Robbin the Negro Fellow that belongs to Doctr. Clark gave it
to me.

_Q._ When & where did Robbin give you that Powder?

_An._ A Week Day night, at his Master's Barn.

_Qu._ Was there any Person present with you when Robbin gave you that
Powder?

_An._ No. The first Time, the negro man his fellow Servant called him
out, it was in the Evening near 9 o'Clock.

_Qu._ How many Times had you such Powder of Robbin?

_An._ Twice only.

_Qu._ When was the last Time you had any such Powder of him?

_An._ The Sabbath Day night before my sd. Master died, in the
Evening after Candle Light.

_Qu._ Where was it you had this last Powder of him, and what was it
in?

_An._ He gave it to me in the same Barn, it was done up in a long
square in two Papers, the outtermost Paper was brown and the inermost
Paper was White, as the other was.

_Qu._ What did Robbin give you these Powders for?

_An._ To kill three Pigs belonging to Quaco as Phoebe told me.

_Qu._ How long ago was it Since Robbin gave you the first of these
Powders?

_An._ I can't certainly tell.

_Qu._ Was it before Robbin & you were together at John Harris ye
Potters Work house?

_Ansr._ I think it was before.

_Qu._ How long before was it?

_Ansr._ About a Week before.

_Qu._ Did you pay Robbin any Thing for these Powders?

_An._ No. I did not.

_Q._