Item #38837 THE TRIAL OF CYRUS B. DEAN, FOR THE MURDER OF JONATHAN ORMSBY AND ASA MARSH, BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE OF THE STATE OF VERMONT, AT THEIR SPECIAL SESSIONS, BEGUN AND HOLDEN AT BURLINGTON, CHITTENDEN COUNTY, ON THE 23D OF AUGUST, A.D. 1808. REVISED AND CORRECTED FROM THE MINUTES OF THE JUDGES. Cyrus B. Dean.
THE TRIAL OF CYRUS B. DEAN, FOR THE MURDER OF JONATHAN ORMSBY AND ASA MARSH, BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE OF THE STATE OF VERMONT, AT THEIR SPECIAL SESSIONS, BEGUN AND HOLDEN AT BURLINGTON, CHITTENDEN COUNTY, ON THE 23D OF AUGUST, A.D. 1808. REVISED AND CORRECTED FROM THE MINUTES OF THE JUDGES.

THE TRIAL OF CYRUS B. DEAN, FOR THE MURDER OF JONATHAN ORMSBY AND ASA MARSH, BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE OF THE STATE OF VERMONT, AT THEIR SPECIAL SESSIONS, BEGUN AND HOLDEN AT BURLINGTON, CHITTENDEN COUNTY, ON THE 23D OF AUGUST, A.D. 1808. REVISED AND CORRECTED FROM THE MINUTES OF THE JUDGES.

Burlington: Printed by Samuel Mills. Sold at his Bookstore, by Mills and White, Middlebury, and by the Principal Booksellers in the United States, 1808. 48pp. Disbound with some separated gatherings lightly foxed, Good+.

"The victims were two revenue agents who tried to intercept smugglers taking potash into Canada. They were shot with a gun nine feet, four inches long. Dean was sentenced to hang" [McDade]. "Dean was the leader of the crew of the Black Snake, a vessel engaged in smuggling of goods into Canada" [McCorison]. "McCorison's 'Additions...' attributes the text to Royall Tyler, who was the Chief Judge" [Cohen].
The pamphlet summarizes the witnesses' testimony, other aspects of the trial proceedings, and unsuccessful efforts of Dean's attorneys to set aside the guilty verdict.
McDade 246. McCorison 983. Cohen 12500. Item #38837

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