The History Of Cape May County New Jersey From The Aboriginal Times To The Present Day PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ... Excellences Proclamation was this day going about my neighborhood, armed with a Club and threatening me with -destruction. "6.--I met the said Mills on the Kings road who threatened me with his Club but on my putting my hand towards my pocket he went off. I immediately went to James Whilden, in order to request him to execute Justice against the said Mills, as I had some days before lodged a complaint before him, but I was told he w as not at home, tho' he had been seen a few minutes before. About six hours after on the same day the said James Whilden, Thomas Leaming, -& Jo Leonard Esqrs sent 5 men with their warrant now produced, who seized my man as he was going home with a loaded Team, he having been all the day with two of my neighbors getting some of my summers Crop which had -been till then decayed on the ground. A few minutes after I was arrested on the same account as the warrant testify-eth. When I first entered the room Mills was sitting by the side of Jo Leonard Esqr with the same Club by his side be had in the morning--during my conversation with them in which I did not give any of them an uncivil word, the said Leonard expressed himself, in a very unbecoming manner. "I then desired the said Mills might be secured and again repeated to them that he was the Pilot who on 8t November threatened me with death if I came near the Ship to execute my Office as his Majs Collr and likewise that he was one of the men who took away the Pilot boat I had seized her, and further that he was the man who laid hold of my son in the street at Philadelphia till a mob of Sailors came up when he and they most inhumanely treated him so that he was taken from them for dead. "He acknowledged the threatening and obstructing me when I was going to the...