I John Burke sign his Majesty's Solicitor General of and in the Caribbean Islands in America do hereby certify that a negro boy named Peter who, I am informed and believe was brought to this Island Antigua by Mr. Gebulon Perkins, and left by him with Nanny Stevenson late of this island _ her but now declared, it was some time ago committed by me to the common goal of this island, to be tried for a burglary and felony-and that the said slave Peter still remains in custody, and cannot now be tried, by Union of the Existence of Martial Law-nor can he be delivered to the said Gebulon Perkins as the said Gebulon Perkins as desired

Given under my hand
and seal at St. John in
Antigua, the 30th day
of April 1795