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Towns of Bloominggrove, Cornwall and Monroe
Towns of Bloominggrove, Cornwall and Monroe
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At a Court of Oyer and Terminer and general gaol delivery held at the Court House in Goshen, in and for the County of Orange, on Wednesday the thirteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine.
Present--The Honorable Robert Yates and the Honorable John Sloss Hobart, and Elihu Marvin, Esquire.
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Commissioners.
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The People of the State of New York
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Claudius Smith,
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On indictment and verdict against the prisoner for a Burglary at the house of John Earle.
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The Same
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The Same,
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On indictment and verdict against the prisoner for a Robbery in the dwelling house of Ebenezer Woodhull.
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The Same
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The Same,
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On indictment and verdict against the prisoner for the Robbery of the dwelling house of William Bell in the day time, and for a Robbery from the still house of William Bell in the presence of some of William Bell's family.
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The Same
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Matthew Dolson,
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On indictment and verdict against the prisoner for Felony by the stealing of two geldings of James Savage.
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The Same
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The Same,
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On indictment and verdict against the prisoner for Felony by the stealing of two geldings of William Armstrong, Junior.
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The Same
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John Ryan,
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On indictment and verdict against the prisoner for the Robbery of Simon Fink on the Highway.
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The Same
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Thomas Delamer,
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On indictment and verdict against the prisoner for a Burglary.
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The Same
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James Gordon,
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On indictment and verdict against the prisoner for stealing a gelding of James Savage and Matthew Davis.
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On motion of Mr. McKesson, on behalf of the People, the prisoners were set to the bar for judgment; and it was demanded, in the usual form, of each of them respectively, what he could say for himself why Judgment of Death should not be passed on him according to law and no reason being assigned by either of the said prisoners in arrest of judgment, or other sufficient cause shewn to the contrary, the Court pronounced the following sentence against the said prisoners-to wit You, and each of you, shall be taken from hence to the place from whence you came, and there be respectively hanged by the neck until you are dead.
Ordered, That the said Claudius Smith, Matthew Dolson, John Ryan, Thomas Delamer, James Gordon and Amy Augor, late Amy Jones, be respectively executed on Friday, the twenty-second day of January instant, and that the Sheriff of the County of Orange see that the execution be done accordingly. (True copies from the minutes.)
Goshen, January 13, 1779. John McKesson, Clerk.