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The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle
Portsmouth, Greenland, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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On July 10 in Black-Point, Lyme, Jeremiah Quinley shot his escaping wife in the back with a musket after an argument. Six gentlemen from a vessel, including a doctor, treated her wounds and punished Quinley by tying him to a tree for three hours and lashing him 300-400 times upon his promise to reform.
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We hear from Black-Point, a part of Lyme, that on the 10th Instant, one Jeremiah Quinley of that Place, having had some (not very pleasant) Words with his Wife, discharged a Musket loaded with Shot, into her Back, as he was making her Escape from him; but fortunately, at that Instant Six Gentlemen, one a Doctor, came on Shore from a Vessel near the Place where the Affair was acting, and while the Doctor was employed in dressing the Woman's Wounds the others seized and secured the Man; but as he then Seemed unfit for Correction, they kept him tied to a Tree about three Hours, and then giving him three or four Hundred Lashes with a Whip prepared for that Purpose, on his promising Reformation, they left him to consider the Justice of their Administration, and pursued their Voyage.
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Black Point, A Part Of Lyme
Event Date
10th Instant
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woman wounded in back with shot; man tied to tree for three hours and given three or four hundred lashes
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Jeremiah Quinley, after words with his wife, discharged a musket loaded with shot into her back as she escaped; six gentlemen including a doctor from a nearby vessel came ashore, doctor dressed her wounds, others seized and secured the man, tied him to a tree for three hours, then whipped him on his promising reformation