1822 Early - Am - - Doc JAMES Mc LANE WITH INTENT TO COMMIT A RAPE
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This Very Good Document of 1722 is on Early Paper and Has A Papered Over Massachusetts Seal To The Warden of Our State Prison, In Charlestown in Our County Of Middlesex Greeting Whereas By The Consideration Of our Supreme Judicial Court Holden at Taunton in The County of Bristol On The 4th Tuesday of April In The Year of our lord 1822 JAMES McLANE Now in The Custody of The Sheriff of Our sd County Of Bristol CONVICTED OF THE CRIME OF ASSAULT WITH INTENT TO COMMIT A RAPE! On the 1...0th day of Session of The Same Court Being The 3rd Day of May In The Year Of Our Lord 1822 WAS SENTENCE TO SUFFER SOLITARY IMPRISONMENT IN OUR STATE PRISON FOR 5 DAYS & TO BE CONFINED TO HARD LABOR IN SD PRISON FOR 4 YEARS. We Therefore Command You The sd Warden of Our State Prison To remove The sd James Mc Lane From our Goal in Taunton In the County of Bristol To our State Prison in Charlestown in sd County of Middlesex: Immediately To Cause The sd James McLane to Suffer Solitary Confinement Therein For 5 Days The same James McLane To Imprison & To Employ in & within The Precincts of The sd State Prison & During The Term of 4 Years From The Expiration Of his Solitary Confinement and For so Doing This Shall Be Your warrant Witness Isaac Parker Esquire at Taunton 6th Day Of may In the year of Our lord 1822. Jas Sproat Clerk. On Verso it states State Prison Charlestown Colony of middlesex May 9th 1822 ON OBSERVANCE To Within Warrant I Received From the Sheriff of Bristol County The Body of James McLane Within Named and Him Conveyed To & Delivered at theState Prison Aforesaid. James Caldwell Deputy Warden State Prison. Warrant James McLane. 8 X 9 1/2" $2.00 For 1st Class Mail. Satisfaction Always Guaranteed.
