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Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
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In New York, James Jones, Esq., demanded the author of disrespectful remarks in the Argus from publisher Greenleaf, identified as Brockholst Livingston. After a Tuesday evening fracas on the battery, they dueled yesterday afternoon at Hoboken, where Jones suffered a fatal groin wound severing a main artery.
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NEW-YORK, May 10.
FATAL RENCOUNTER.
In consequence of a publication which appeared in the Argus of Saturday last, containing some remarks on James Jones, Esq., which were deemed of a disrespectful nature, this gentleman demanded of Mr. Greenleaf, the publisher of that paper, the name of the author, who gave up as such Mr. Brockholst Livingston. A fracas took place on Tuesday evening, on the battery, between Mr. Jones, and Mr. Livingston; in consequence thereof, those gentlemen we are informed, met yesterday afternoon at Hoboken on the Jersey side of the Hudson; and it is with extreme regret we have to add that a wound received by Mr. J- in the groin, which opened a main artery, proved in a few minutes fatal to that respectable and worthy character.
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New York
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May 10
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a wound received by mr. j- in the groin, which opened a main artery, proved in a few minutes fatal
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In consequence of a publication which appeared in the Argus of Saturday last, containing some remarks on James Jones, Esq., which were deemed of a disrespectful nature, this gentleman demanded of Mr. Greenleaf, the publisher of that paper, the name of the author, who gave up as such Mr. Brockholst Livingston. A fracas took place on Tuesday evening, on the battery, between Mr. Jones, and Mr. Livingston; in consequence thereof, those gentlemen we are informed, met yesterday afternoon at Hoboken on the Jersey side of the Hudson