THE GRAND INQUEST FOR THE COUNTY OF BEDFORD AFORESAID UPON THIS OATH OF SOLEMN AFFIRMATIONS RESPECTIVELY DO PRESENT THAT JOHN W. GAUGHEY LATE OF BEDFORD TOWNSHIP IN THE COUNTY AFORESAID YEOMAN ON THE TWELFTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD [1780] WITH FORCE AND ARMS AND SO FORTH IN AND UPON ONE CATHARINE DAVID WIFE OF ELIZER DAVID . . . AN ASSAULT DID MAKE. . . JONATHAN SERGEANT ATTY GENL.
[Bedford PA: 1780]. Manuscript indictment, signed by Sergeant as Attorney General of Pennsylvania, and Catharine David as complainant. Old folds, foxed along folds, some splits affecting only a couple of letters. Docketed on verso, "October Session 1780. Pennsylvania v. John W. Gaughey | Assault & Battery. Defdt. being arraigned pleads..... More