Document: Order on the petition of Edward Scharburch for leave to sail with some negroes to Virginia

Tuesday, 29 August 1655.

At the session the petition of Edmund Scharburch was read, requesting permission to depart from here with his bark for Virginia with some purchased Negroes. After due deliberation it was decided to approve the petition provided that the petitioner post bond[1] for the value of five thousand pounds sterling neither directly nor indirectly to sail into the South Bay or the aforesaid river, and that his crew promise under oath not to do the same, or give any information to anyone at sea or on land. Ady ut supra.

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