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Virginia Argus
Richmond, Virginia
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Reports of increasing arson attacks in Londonderry neighborhood: houses of Counsellor Macklin burned at Ruskey near Raphoe by dispossessed tenants; a house and trees destroyed on Alexander Boyd's estate at Roughan on January 1, with reward offered for perpetrators.
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We perceive with great concern, that the system of burning and destroying property has of late become common in our neighbourhood. A number of houses, the property of Counsellor Macklin, were lately burnt at Ruskey, near Raphoe, because the former occupants conceived themselves aggrieved by being dispossessed of them; and on the 1st instant a house on the lands of Roughan, in the estate of Alexander Boyd, Esq. was burned down, and a number of trees destroyed, by some person as yet unknown, but for whose discovery, a liberal reward has been offered. The perpetrators of such diabolical acts are not aware that the damage must be made good by the parish, in endeavoring to injure an individual they are heaping additional taxes on their unoffending neighbors.
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Londonderry
Event Date
Jan. 24
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houses burned at ruskey; house and trees destroyed at roughan; liberal reward offered for discovery of perpetrators; damage to be covered by parish taxes.
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System of burning and destroying property becoming common; houses of Counsellor Macklin burnt at Ruskey near Raphoe by aggrieved former occupants; on 1st instant, house on Roughan lands in Alexander Boyd's estate burned down and trees destroyed by unknown persons.