C.C.C.R. Liber S. Fol. 317
June 1694 Ct* The jury presented Christian, a negro woman slave belonging to Phillip Lyons, "for pilfering, stealing and carrying away several goods out of the house of Mary Wheeler, widow, to which the said Christian plead guilty Whereupon it was ordered that John Godshall, Constable of St. Thomas Hundred, take unto the said Mary Wheeler the goods that were found belonging to her
and the Sheriff to to take Christian, the negro woman to the Whipping Post and give her 21 lashes on the bare back well laid on for her offence