cary Quaco the
servt. of ---- Dalton Quaco a Negro man belonging to mr. John
White

To appear before our Justices of our Superiour Court of Judicature
Court of Assize & General Goal Delivery now holden at Cambridge within
and for said County Tomorrow morning at Eight of ye Clock before
noon Then and there to give Such Evidence in our Behalf as you know
against Mark a Negro man & Phillis a Negro woman both of Charlestown
in our County of Middlesex--

Hereof Fail not and so soon as may be make Return of this Writ with
your Doings therein into the same Court

Witness Stephen Sewall Esq. at Boston the Sixth Day of August in the
twenty ninth year of our Reign Annoq, Domini 1755

SAML WINTHROP _Cler_

[_Record of the Case._]

PROVINCE OF THE } _Anno Regni Regis Georgii secondi Magnae
MASSACHUSETTS BAY } Britanniae Franciae Hiberniae vicesimonono._
MIDDLESEX ss. }

At his Majestys Superiour Court of Judicature Court of
Assize and General Goal Delivery began and held at
Cambridge within and for the County of Middlesex on
the first Tuesday of August Annoque Domini 1755--

By the Honoble. Stephen Sewall Esqr: Chief Justice
Benjamin Lynde[4] }
John Cushing & } Esquires Justices
Chambers Russell }

[Footnote 4: Judge Lynde makes a memorandum of this trial, and of the
particulars of the executions, in his diary under date of July 9,
1755.--Lynde Diaries (privately printed, 1880), p. 179.--EDS. OF
PROCEEDINGS.]

[_After reciting the words of the indictment, the record proceeds as
follows, being, as far as where the record of the trial and sentence
begins, an extension of a memorandum on the indictment._]

Upon this Indictment the said Phillis was arraigned and upon her
arraignment pleaded not guilty and for trial put herself upon God and
the Country and the said Mark was also arraigned upon this Indictment
and upon his arraignment pleaded not Guilty and for trial put himself
upon God and the Country, a Jury was thereupon Sworne to try the issue
Mr. John Miller Foreman and fellows who having fully heared the
Evidence went out to consider thereof and returned with their verdicts
and upon their oath's say'd that the said Phillis is Guilty, and that
the said Mark is Guilty, upon which the prisoners were remanded, and
being again brot and set to the Bar, the Kings Attorney moved the
Court that Judgment of Death might