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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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During the February 1817 term of the Boston Municipal Court, ten criminals were convicted and sentenced: three to hard labor in state prison (Joshua Travis for 3 years on housebreaking, James Salter for 2 years on shop-breaking, Isaac Charles for 1 year on receiving stolen goods after restitution), and seven to jail (John Johnson alias Downing alias Davis for 60 days on theft, three women for 30 days on larceny and assault).
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Ten criminals have been convicted and sentenced at this term of the Municipal Court, three to hard labour in the state prison, and seven to confinement in the common jail.
Joshua Travis, a native of Roxbury, 23 years old, who has been out of state prison about four years, was sentenced to three years of hard labour, for stealing from a dwelling-house.
James Salter, a black, from the Southern states, of about the same age, was convicted of shop-breaking, and sentenced to two years of hard labor.
Isaac Charles, a Guinea-man, about 37 years old, was convicted of receiving stolen goods, and on making restitution, was sentenced to one year of hard labor.
John Johnson, alias Downing, alias Davis, born in the county of Essex, about 30 years old, was convicted of taking a box of glass from a waggon, & sentenced to confinement in the common jail for sixty days. He was induced perhaps by filial and fraternal affection, for his father and mother and brother are in the state prison, and he is probably making preparation to go home and make them a visit.
Three women, one a black, from New Bedford, and one from Portsmouth, N. H. were sentenced to 30 days confinement in the common jail, two upon a conviction of larceny, and one, the woman of colour, of assault and battery.
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Boston
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Feb. Term, 1817
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ten convicted: three to hard labour in state prison (travis 3 years, salter 2 years, charles 1 year); seven to common jail (johnson 60 days, three women 30 days).
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Ten criminals convicted and sentenced at Boston Municipal Court Feb. term 1817: Joshua Travis (Roxbury native, 23, ex-prisoner) for stealing from dwelling-house; James Salter (black, Southern states, ~23) for shop-breaking; Isaac Charles (Guinea-man, ~37) for receiving stolen goods after restitution; John Johnson alias Downing alias Davis (Essex county, ~30) for taking glass box from wagon, possibly to join family in prison; three women (one black from New Bedford, one from Portsmouth NH) for larceny and assault and battery.