@brockway_abuse_collection:document {title: "Depositions Regarding Samuel Brockway Abuse Case", creator: [@timothy_wood, @mary_pond, @lucy_pond], institution: @connecticut_state_library, created: @date_1758_08_30, subjects: ["Divorce","Domestic abuse","Legal depositions","Samuel Brockway","Waterbury (Conn.)"], place: [@waterbury, @new_haven_county]}

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@waterbury:place {state: @connecticut, country: @united_states}

@new_haven_county:place {state: @connecticut, country: @united_states}

@new_haven_superior_court:organization {jurisdiction: @new_haven_county, type: "Superior Court"}

@timothy_wood:person {role: "deponent"}

@mary_pond:person {role: "deponent"}

@lucy_pond:person {role: "deponent"}

@samuel_brockway:person {role: "defendant"}

@mary_brockway:person {role: "victim"}

@thos_gittkin:person {role: "clerk"}

@thos_matthews:person {role: "justice of peace"}

@abuse:concept {description: "Physical violence within domestic relationships"}

@deposition_006:document {type: "deposition", deponent: @timothy_wood, date: @date_1758_08_30, location: @waterbury, recorded_by: @thos_gittkin, court: @new_haven_superior_court, ocr_text: "the deposition of Timothy Wood of Waterbury of lawful age is as follows: On some time last spring was twelve months of June Samuel Brockway's wife running from the door of their dwelling house and he after her and they ran in the path several rods at last she sat down and he came up with her and laid hold of one of her arms and twisted her across the path and then twisted her back again and so he did sundry times and at last took her by the arm and drew her on the ground all the way back to the house and when they was there he made a motion with his hand and arm as though he struck her several blows but I could not see her and so could see whether he struck her or not and then he dragged her into the house and there was a great noise in the house. Waterbury in New Haven County August the 30th A 1758 then personally appeared the above Depenant and gave oath to the truth of the above Deposition the other party being cited but not present before me New Haven Sup Court August 1758 This Deposition was delivered into Court by the Justices own hand Thos Gittkin Clerk"}

@deposition_012:document {type: "deposition", deponents: [@mary_pond, @lucy_pond], date: @date_1758_08_30, location: @waterbury, recorded_by: @thos_matthews, court: @new_haven_superior_court, ocr_text: "The Deposition of Mary pond and Lucy pond of Waterbury of Lawfull age is as followeth: Vix some time about a year ago Maryeit Brockway showed us sundry wounds about her throat neck and head which she told was done by her husband by taking her by throat and hocking her head on the post and striking her with his fist; her husband was present when she told us and he answering said that if she would not mind him and so as he would have his he must beat her to please. We have often heard Samuel Brockway say that his wife was a poor crossed creature. Waterbury in New Haven County August the 30th A.D. 1758 the above Dependants personally appeared and gave oath to the truth of the above deposition the adverse party being sick but not present before me Thos Matthews Justice of Peace"}

@samuel_brockway -> accused of -> @abuse

@deposition_006 -> describes -> @abuse

@deposition_012 -> describes -> @abuse

@deposition_012 -> mentions -> @mary_brockway

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@file_rg003_nhsc_baai_ps_divorce_brockway_006_tif -> represents -> @deposition_006

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@nhsc_baai_cases_papers_subject:concept {description: "Subject index field for New Haven County Superior Court files concerning Black, African American, and Indigenous cases and papers"}

@brockway_abuse_collection -> indexed by -> @nhsc_baai_cases_papers_subject