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de on, and, as he believed, were buying and selling negroes.--During the examination nothing was elicited to show that he had any knowledge of the negroes; and but for the fact that Ellett had a bill of sale with his name on it, he could not have been held under the charge made against the other two. The Commonwealth established, by the evidence of several citizens of James City county, that the three negroes were born free, and that another negro, Washington Simpson, who was left at E. H. Stokes's jail on the 10th of July as the slave of Dr. Chas. M. Herbert, by Cotton and an unknown man, was also free. The witnesses also proved that there was no such man in James City as John Holt; that in Charles City there was a Justice of the Peace named John Holt; but that the bill of sale presented was not in his hand-writing. The Mayor, in order to secure the attendance of other witnesses, adjourned the investigation for one week, and admitted Dr. Boynton to bail in $3,000 for hi