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Domestic News
March 12, 1762
The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
What is this article about?
In St. Mary's, a man and his Negro woman are jailed for murdering his three-year-old illegitimate child, whom the mother left at his home after he stopped payments; he ordered the woman to abandon it in a corn field where it was found dead.
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We hear From St. Mary's, that a Man and Negro Woman are in Goal there for the cruel Murder of a Child of Three Years of Age. It is said the Child was the Man's own, which he had by a neighbouring Woman before his Marriage, and to whom he used to pay a Quantity of Tobacco to keep it secret; but on his Marriage to another, and withholding the usual Payment, the Mother of the Child brought it to, and left it at, the Father's; who ordered his Negro Woman to carry it back and throw it into a Corn Field near the Mother's Dwelling, where the poor little Innocent was the next Day found dead.
What sub-type of article is it?
Crime
Death Or Funeral
What keywords are associated?
Child Murder
St Marys
Illegitimate Child
Negro Woman
Jail
Where did it happen?
St. Mary's
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
St. Mary's
Outcome
child found dead; man and negro woman imprisoned
Event Details
A man and Negro woman jailed for murdering the man's three-year-old child; the child was illegitimate, mother left it at father's after he stopped tobacco payments, father ordered woman to abandon it in corn field near mother's dwelling.