Francis Brown was not the only one in trouble.
Several pages after his expulsion in colonial records (p. 1088), the same committee that looked into his misconduct made another report.
The committee was apparently appointed to investigate Francis Corbin and Joshua Bodley, who were agents of Earl Granville, in an equivalent to the modern-day registers of deeds.
The head of the committee testified that Corbin and Bodley took money to register land in several cases but did not do so and failed to pay back the would-be buyers.
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