1774 Col Am Doc> SHIPWRIGHTS ENTERED WITH CLUBS SWORDS & AXES RIOTOUS & BURNT

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1774 Colonial American Document On Hand Laid Paper. Bristol: To The Sheriff Or Marshal Of The County Of Bristol Or either of the Deputy's or
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onstables of The town Of Rehoboth Within The County or Any of Them Greeting Whereas Complaint Hath been Made Unto Me One Of the Subscribers One Of H
is Majesty's Justice Of the Peace for The County Of Bristol On His Majesty's Behalf This 29th Day of August AD 1774 By Samuel Pitcher Of Rehoboth Innholder That At Rehoboth That On The Evening Of The 4th Day of January Last Past Charles & Asa Bowers Shipwrights  Both Of Rehoboth & Jonah Simmons of Providence in the County of Providence & Colony Of Rhode Island With A Number Of Persons To The Complainant Unknown ENTERED WITH FORCE & ARMS CLUBS, SWORDS & AXES INTO THE SAM CLOSE &BEING ENTERED WITH THEM IN FORCE & ARMS IN A RIOTOUS MANNER DID THEN & THERE CUT DOWN THE sd SAMUELS FIRE PART &TOOK THE LINE & BURNT THE SAMEIN A RIOTIOUS MANNER CONTRARY TO THE LAW & OF EVIL EXAMPLE TO OTHERS. These Are Therefore In His Majesty's Name To Require You Or Either Of You On Site Hereof To Apprehend The Body's Of The sd Charles, Asa & Jonah If They may Be Found In your precinct & The Finding You Are to Have before Me Of Some other Of His Majesty's Justices That They may be Examined Relating The premises Dealt With & Disposed of as The law & Justice Appertains You Are Likewise To Summon Nathaniel Bucklin Yeoman 7 George Pitcher An Infant  Lemuel Pitcher An Infant Mary Bucklin Spinster All Of Rehoboth To Give Evidence Of what They Know Relating To the Premises You are Also To Notify The Complainant To Appear & Prosecute Complaint