To his excellency Benjamin Franklin Esquire and the Honroable the Supreme Executive Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : the petition of David Hunter : Newtown, October 17th, Anno Domini 1787
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Title
To his excellency Benjamin Franklin Esquire and the Honroable the Supreme Executive Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : the petition of David Hunter : Newtown, October 17th, Anno Domini 1787
Variant Title
Petition of Daniel Hunter
Published
Newtown, [Pa.] 1787
Description
[4] p. ; 35 cm. (fol.)
Call Number
MSS L1982.141.2
Note
At bottom of p. [3]: We the subscribers Justices of the Court of Quarter session in the County of Bucks reexamined the above petitioner ... [signed] Henry Wynkoop, Francis Murray, Joshua Anderson, Tho. Dyer, John Wilson, Sam.l Benezet, Matthias Hutchinson, Richard Backhouse, John [illegible], [and] William McInlvaine
Docketed on p. [4]: 1787 Oct. 17th Bucks County / The petition of Daniel Hunter. In another hand: fine remitted Oc.t 27. [illegible initials]
Hunter was "arrained on an indictment for an escape in assisting Israel Doan and others to rescue themselves from the public jaol of said county then confined on a charge of larceny ...."
"... [T]he petitioner plead guilty and by the court was sentenced to pay a fine of one hundred pounds to the Commonwealth ...."
"Your petitioner begs further to represaent that at the time of the commission of this offence he was but sixteen years and about one month of age ...."
Petitioner also requests "to return to his distressed parents in order ... to atone ... for the distress he has given them [and he] will be pleased to remit the fine .... which will enable him to shew the world that the mercy ... of your honors will not be misapplied."
Pages [2]3 are inlaid
Between 1781 and 1783, a company of outlaws loyal to the British crown and headed by members of the Doan family began robbing the county treasury and looting homes in and around Newtown, Pa. For a description of their activities, see T. A. McNealy. A History to 1776 of Bucks County Pennsylvania, 1970, pp. 124-129.
Francis Murray was an original member of the Pennsylvania Society of the Pennsylvania, and Benjamin Franklin was an honorary member.
Docketed on p. [4]: 1787 Oct. 17th Bucks County / The petition of Daniel Hunter. In another hand: fine remitted Oc.t 27. [illegible initials]
Hunter was "arrained on an indictment for an escape in assisting Israel Doan and others to rescue themselves from the public jaol of said county then confined on a charge of larceny ...."
"... [T]he petitioner plead guilty and by the court was sentenced to pay a fine of one hundred pounds to the Commonwealth ...."
"Your petitioner begs further to represaent that at the time of the commission of this offence he was but sixteen years and about one month of age ...."
Petitioner also requests "to return to his distressed parents in order ... to atone ... for the distress he has given them [and he] will be pleased to remit the fine .... which will enable him to shew the world that the mercy ... of your honors will not be misapplied."
Pages [2]3 are inlaid
Between 1781 and 1783, a company of outlaws loyal to the British crown and headed by members of the Doan family began robbing the county treasury and looting homes in and around Newtown, Pa. For a description of their activities, see T. A. McNealy. A History to 1776 of Bucks County Pennsylvania, 1970, pp. 124-129.
Francis Murray was an original member of the Pennsylvania Society of the Pennsylvania, and Benjamin Franklin was an honorary member.
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