Punishment for Sam
Whereas at a Genll
Court held att James Citty Aprill the 26th 1688 Present the honourable his
Majties Councill of State It apeard that Sam a Negro Servt to Richard Metcalfe
hath several times endeavoured to promote a Negro Insurreccon in this Colony,
It is therefore ordered to deter him & others from the like evil practice
for time to come, that he be by the Sheriff of James Citty County or his deputy
severely whipt att a cart tayle from the prison round about the town & then
to the Gallows, and from thence to the prison againe and that hee be conveyed
by the sheriff of Westmoreland County to that county & hee is ordered to
whip him severely at the next Court to be held for that County, & that hee
have a halter about his necke during that time, & afterwards that hee have
a strong Iron collar affixed about his neck with four spriggs wch collar he is
never to take or gett off nor to goe off his master or masters plantacon during
all the time he shall live, and if he shall goe off his said master or masters
plantacon or get off his collar then to be hanged. Vera Copia test, W Edward Cl
Gen Cur. In Obedience to wch Order we command the sheriff of this county or
his deputy sedente curia to give him twenty-nine lashes on the bare back well
laid on wch was performed accordingly with a halter about his neck, and the
collar put on.