Account of the examination of Benjamin Church, 1 Nov. 1775.

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Account of the examination of Benjamin Church, 1 Nov. 1775.

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An account of the examination of Dr. Benjamin Church by the Massachusetts House of Representatives for the crime of treason during the Revolutionary War. The account was written by Church while in jail in Cambridge, Mass., 1 Nov. 1775, and describes standing before members of the House of Representative, his prison conditions, and the cipher letter used as evidence of his treason.

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Church, Benjamin, 1734-1778

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Physician, poet, author, and traitor; b. Newport, R.I.; graduate of Harvard, 1754; lived in Boston and Raynham, Mass.; after correspondence with British was intercepted in 1775, he was tried by court martial. Continental Congress resolved on Nov. 6, that he should be imprisoned at Norwich, Conn., but because of illness was removed to Massachusetts and put on parole; allowed to sail from Boston in May 1776 for London but ship never heard from again; family was pensioned by the Crown. ...

Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives

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Massachusetts House of Representatives is the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court, the state legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It is composed of 160 members elected from an equal number of single-member electoral districts across the Commonwealth. Representatives serve two-year terms. From the description of House of Representatives, Order, Massachusetts, 1776 January 22. (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation). WorldCat record id: 189065354 From the gu...