1Paine’s Argument for the Crown: 4–5 December 1770 (Adams Papers)
May it please &c. It now remains to close this Cause on the part of the Crown, a cause, which from the Importance of it has been examined with such minuteness and protracted to such a length that I fear it has fatigued your attention as I am certain it has exhausted my Spirits. However Gentlemen it may serve to show you and all the world that the Benignity of the English Law, so much relied on...
Warninig. Shurtleffe. J. Mar shall went from Plym pton to Mid dleborough 21. Dec. 1753. Mr. Josiah Marshal. Came to Plymp ton Augt. 1747 till 20th Novr. 1753. Then to Midd leborough , returned to Ply mpton 7th July 1758. Was Grammar School Master at Midd leborough . I went to Pembroke 4 yr. ago and kept school there 2 yr. and 2 months.
3Paine’s Minutes of the Trial: Plymouth Inferior Court, July 1768 (Adams Papers)
Mr. Adams . The grass was good till it was pastured and the bushes grew up; if the mill had not been built, his neglect would have filld up the natural Course and spoil’d the Meadow. Why did not he bring his action in the time of it? He has no damages for what he bought 5 years ago. The fall of water. I knew a meadow. Duke of Bridgwater’s Cannel. Paine Law Notes . The writ alleged the flooding...
Defendant It may be part of a great plan to get Representat ion over that Paper. It is true he made the Story for he drew it up. Plaintiff put in memorial to cross Col. Cotton. The Committee had no business to sign said Certificate. The design of the Paper was to fix a Lye upon Nye and was a parlimentary paper. “A lying Paper,” no Slander. This was not Forgery. 485 Bac. 4. HPC 185 The House of...
5Report Relative to Assuming Civil Government, 10 December 1774 (Adams Papers)
Cambridge,10 December 1774. printed : Mass. Provincial Congress, Jours. William Lincoln, ed., The Journals of Each Provincial Congress of Massachusetts in 1774 and 1775, and of the Committee of Safety , Boston, 1838. , p. 73–74. This, the second report on this date of the Committee on the State of the Province, was framed in the form of three resolutions: that the adjournment on 29 October had...
6Paine’s Minutes of the Trial: Suffolk. Supr. Ct. April 1770. (Adams Papers)
S. Quincy . Wm. Gray, day before Some mention of Effigies. R said he hoped if these was before Importers Doors there be a Dust beat up, wish’d the 14. Regiment there. They would Cut up the d——d Yankees. Some time before he said he would give the Devil a Supper of them if— He has also said he would not hurt any body unless they hurt him. Deb. Warner. I was Looking out of my Shop door, I saw R...
7Paine’s Minutes of Adams’ Argument: 27 October 1770 (Adams Papers)
Adams. It is certain a great bitterness between Soldiers and Inhabitants. No Evidence applys to Soldiers in Goal nor to Capt. Preston. It was Prestons duty on the message to him to go and take all the Care he could of his men and protect them. The Ev He had Account of the assault. Had the Centry been a private Citizen and Capt. a Citizen it was his duty to go to assist. He order ed Corporal...
1762. 1762. June 1. C. Basset complains of Jerus ha Beth i a h junr. Lucinda Mahew and Mercy Chase and a Warrant issues without Seal and directed to Coroner and General who on said day serves it on all three and lets them go . Oct. 9. Coroner Allen serves it again on Jerusha and takes her before M. Mahew who binds her to Court and makes a Mittimus directed only to the Goaler. Oct. 25. Coroner
Judge Cushing . The longest Tryal I have ever known. The Party in K ing S treet had a right to beat . Judge Lynde . 8 Prisoners. No Body can wonder that on their account we have spend a great Deal of Time. HP 482 , If it be not known who kill’d. This Rule will Shorten your Business. Paine Massacre Notes . Presumably 1 Hale, Pleas of the Crown Matthew Hale, Historia Placitorum Coronse: The...
10Paine’s Minutes of the Preliminary Argument: 24 October 1770 (Adams Papers)
Q uestion of the Jury Prisoner having a Right by Statute of W. to a Copy of the Panel. Court divided on the question whether the Prisoner not a list of Jury be a Cause of Chall enge . To two of em viz. Jona. Day and Edmund Billings Council on both sides agreed they should not be sworn and no Exception taken. Q uestion of putting several Homicides into one Indictment. Q uestion of the Rights of...