Winthrop, James, 1752-1821. Papers of James Winthrop, 1765-1826. Notes about cases heard as Justice of the Peace, 1784-1795. HUM 69 Box 1, Folder 2, Harvard University Archives. (Colonial North America: Harvard University Archives)

Winthrop, James, 1752-1821. Papers of James Winthrop, 1765-1826. Notes about cases heard as Justice of the Peace, 1784-1795. HUM 69 Box 1, Folder 2, Harvard University Archives.

This small paper-bound notebook contains notes Winthrop made concerning the cases he heard between 1784 and 1795 as a Justice of the Peace for Middlesex County. These notes provide insight into the nature of crimes being committed in Cambridge in the post-Revolutionary period, as well as the names and occupations of those accused and their victims. The cases involved the following individuals, among others: Samuel Bridge, Benjamin Estabrook, Joseph Jeffords, Cato Bordman, John Kidder, Spenser Goddin, Jacob Cromwell, Benjamin Stratton, Mary Flood, Bender Temple, John Willett, Joseph Hartwell, Nathaniel Stratton, Amos Washburn, Francis Moore, Thomas Malone, Thomas Cook, and Amboy Brown. The cases involved a range of offenses, and occasionally Winthrop decided that a case exceeded his jurisdiction and forwarded it to the General Court or the Supreme Judicial Court.

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Know all Men by these presents, that we Samuel Bridge & Benjamin Estabrook both of Lexington in the County of Middlesex, do jointly & severally owe unto Elijah Paine the sum of Eighteen Pounds eight shillings & seven pence of the lawful money of Massachusetts to be paid to the said Elijah Paine within six weeks from the date hereof, & if we shall fail of the payment of the debt aforesaid by the time aforesaid, we will & grant that the said debt shall be levied of our & each of our goods & chattels, lands & tenements, & in want thereof, of our & each of Bodies. Dated at Cambridge this

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2. 30th day of April in the year of our Lord 1786. Witness our hands & [Seals?] {Samuel} Bridge & a Seal {Benjamin} Eastbrook & a Seal Middlesex Se. 5 May 1784. Acknowledged before me on the day & year last abovesaid. James Winthrop & Peace. Lnt.d & Examined by James Winthrop Heace

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