Title

6 King's Street- King's Bench Assizes- 1710

Description

“The jurors for & on behalf of or Soveraign Lady ye Queen on their Oaths present a Negro man Slave Call’d Jack belonging to George Wainwright of Warwick tribe in these Islands within ye Jurisdiction of this Court, offer that wereas he the said Negro man Jack not having ye fear of God before his eyes but moved & seduced by the Instigation of the devil with force & Armes feloniously & Burglary Did some Short time before the Sixteenth day of May last past in the Night time, Into the storehouse of Mr. John Dickinson of Smiths Tribe (where William Davis [jr. of Smith’s] dwells) break, by breaking open the door therof with a Crow; And also he the said Jack did then and there feloniously take and carry away out and from the said house Sundry Goods & Merchanize, as one bagg & a piece of a saile with shugar in them both, and a bottle with rum in It; And so the said Negro Jack the said storehouse in manner and from a Burglary break and Enter, and the Severall goods as aforesaid feloniously Stealetake and carry away, against the peace of our dread Soveraign Lady the Queen her Crowne & Dignitiy." Jack pleaded not guilty. Jury found him not guilty. Jack accused of a second crime of breaking out of prison…found guilty and fined 18 pounds

Date

16 May to 5 December, 1710

Event Code

King's Bench Assizes

Year

1710

Day and Month

16 May to 5 December