TO BREWSTER HIGLY ESQR. JUSTICE OF THE PEACE FOR THE COUNTY OF RUTLAND COMES ADAM JOHNSON ONE OF THE GRAND JURORS FOR THE BODY OF SAID COUNTY & INFORMS AND UPON HIS OATH COMPLAINS... THAT AMOS CHALKINS LATE OF CASTLETON IS GUILTY OF UNNECESSARILY TRAVELING ON THE ROAD IN SAID CASTLETON ON THE EIGHTEENTH DAY OF APRIL LAST BEING SABATH [sic] OR LORDS DAY WHICH IS CONTRARY TO AN ACT OF LAW OF THE STATE OF VERMONT INTITLED AN ACT FOR THE DUE OBSERVATION AND KEEPING THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK AS THE SABATH OR LORDS DAY AND FOR PUNISHING DISORDERS AND PROFANESS [sic] ON THE SAME WHICH IS CONTRARY TO THE PEACE OF THE STATE OF VERMONT... THAT HE MAY BE EXAMINED INTO THE PREMISES AND BE FURTHER MADE TO DO SUFFER AND RECEIVE AS TO LAW AND JUSTICE APPERTAIN. DATED CASTLETON MAY 4, 1790. | ADAM JOHNSON, GRAND JUROR.| WITNESSES SAXTON KELLOGG AND NOAH BOLAND.
Castleton, VT: 1790. Broadside, 8" x 11.25". Entirely in brown ink manuscript, laid paper. Age toned, lightly foxed, minor edgewear. Several short splits at blank fold edges, tiny pinhole at fold corner [no text loss]. Very Good. Vermont's 'Act for the Due Observation and Keeping of the First Day..... More
