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Betsy Smith being sworn on the holy Evangels of almig-
ty God do deposeth as follows -- towit

That this Deponent was living at M^r. Patterson's
then living in the State of Maryland but nant the Pensyl-
vania live that some time in the fall of the year
1784 the Petitioner ran away from the his Master
and was discovered in the Family of Robert Flemming
but never understood that M^r Flemming had hired the said
Petitioner - that the Petitioner was th at that time the slave
of M^r. Patterson who resided in Maryland and that the
said Flemming resided in Pennsylvannia - that she was also
in the family when the said Flemming stopped and at the
House of M^r. Patterson in Maryland -- on [ ] his way to
Frederick Town --- further sayeth not

Sworn to in open Court in
presence of the parties, 22
Nov^r. 1792 and admitted agreed
to be shown in Evidence

Test W^m. Ritchie Clk

Betsy ^herX^mark Smith