Notes about cases heard as Justice of the Peace, 1784-1795


Autoria(s): Harvard University Archives
Data(s)

31/12/1969

31/12/1969

Resumo

This small paper-bound notebook contains notes Winthrop made concerning the cases he heard between 1784 and 1795 as a Justice of the Peace for Middlesex County. These notes provide insight into the nature of crimes being committed in Cambridge in the post-Revolutionary period, as well as the names and occupations of those accused and their victims. The cases involved the following individuals, among others: Samuel Bridge, Benjamin Estabrook, Joseph Jeffords, Cato Bordman, John Kidder, Spenser Goddin, Jacob Cromwell, Benjamin Stratton, Mary Flood, Bender Temple, John Willett, Joseph Hartwell, Nathaniel Stratton, Amos Washburn, Francis Moore, Thomas Malone, Thomas Cook, and Amboy Brown. The cases involved a range of offenses, and occasionally Winthrop decided that a case exceeded his jurisdiction and forwarded it to the General Court or the Supreme Judicial Court.

Identificador

HUM 69 Box 1, Folder 2

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Publicador

Harvard University Archives

Relação

Harvard University Archives: Papers of James Winthrop, 1765-1826

Direitos

The Papers of James Winthrop are open for research.