Records of the court, 1776-1783.

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Records of the court, 1776-1783.

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Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of about 92 court records and statements of recognizance from Farmington, Connecticut, presided over by John Treadwell, justice of the peace, between 1777 and 1783. The cases deal primarily with moral accusations against citizens of Farmington, such as inadequate respect for the Sabbath; playing card games; swearing; and extramarital intercourse. In 1778, a "transient" was accused of fathering a child on a single woman and absconding so as not to have to maintain the child; in 1780 a man was fined for not attending public worship on the Sabbath. The volume also records contestations of personal property, including the skin of a deer; the theft of a pig and dog; and the purchase of large quantities of pork without a permit; and several cases of personal assault, including one against a man on December 12, 1782, who was accused of attacking a woman by the throat while armed.

1 v. (48 leaves) ; 22 cm.

Yale University, Lewis Walpole Library

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Treadwell, John, 1745-1823

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John Treadwell, Connecticut's fourth governor, was born at Farmington, CT, on November 23, 1745. He graduated from Yale in 1767. In 1776 his townsmen elected him as their representative in the General Assembly, an office he held for the next seven years, when in 1783, he was elevated to the governor's council, where he continued until 1798. Treadwell also served in the Continental Congress from 1785 to 1786, and was one of the delegates to the convention at Hartford that ratified the Constitutio...