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@joseph_mountain:person {race: "African American", status: "traveler"}
@ephraim_dyer:person {role: "Judge", court: @new_haven_county_superior_court}
@new_haven:place {state: @connecticut, country: @united_states}
@new_haven_county:place {state: @connecticut, country: @united_states}
@new_haven_county_superior_court:organization {type: "court", jurisdiction: @new_haven_county, state: @connecticut}
@execution_warrant:document {title: "Execution Warrant for Joseph Mountain", creator: @ephraim_dyer, date_created: @date_1790_08_13, subjects: ["Execution","Legal documents","Crime","Rape","African American history","New Haven County","Superior Court"], description: "Execution warrant for Joseph Mountain, a traveling African American man, convicted of rape in New Haven, Connecticut, 1790.", location: @new_haven, institution: @connecticut_state_library}
@eunice_thompson:person {age_at_crime: 13, gender: "female"}
@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"}
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@date_1790_08_13
@date_1790_08_01
@date_1790_05_26
@date_1790_10_20
@execution_warrant -> issued by -> @ephraim_dyer
@execution_warrant -> concerns -> @joseph_mountain
@execution_warrant -> ordered execution on -> @date_1790_10_20
@execution_warrant -> trial date -> @date_1790_08_01
@execution_warrant -> crime date -> @date_1790_05_26
@execution_warrant -> held at -> @new_haven
@execution_warrant -> victim -> @eunice_thompson
@execution_warrant -> indexed in -> @nhsc_baai_cases_papers_subject
@file_pinax -> documents -> @execution_warrant
@file_rg003_nhsc_baai_ps_executions_mountainjoseph_001_jpg -> depicts -> @execution_warrant
@connecticut_state_library:organization {type: "library", location: @hartford}To the Sheriff of the County New Haven Greeting: Whereas Joseph Mountain is a Travelling Negro Man Now in the custody of said Sheriff in New Haven County Goal Before the Superior Court held at New Haven in the State of Connecticut on the First Day of August D 1790. Was Legally Convicted of a Rape Committed on the Body of Eunice Thompson of said New Haven of the Age of thirteen years on the 26th Day of May last. And on Consideration of the Judges of said Superior Court was he the said Joseph Mountain Was sentenced and adjudged to be hanged up by his Neck with a Rope between the heavens and the Earth until he should be Dead All Which of the files and records of said Court fully appears Whereof Execution Still Remains to be done. These are therefore by Authority of the State of Connecticut So will and command that on Wednesday the Twentieth Day of October Next Insuring you Between the hours of Twelve O'clock in the Morning and two O'Clock in the afternoon you have the Body of him the said Joseph Mountain forth of the Goal where he is now Holden in Custody unto some open and convenient place for execution And then and there him said Joseph Mountain cause to be hanged up by his Neck with a Rope between the heavens and the Earth until he Shall be Dead To Which Purpose this Shall be your Legal and sufficient Warrant. Hence you may in no Way fail thus Make Return of this Writ & with your Serjeant thereof in Accordance to Laws. Dated at New Haven This Thirteenth Day of August A.D. 1790 Ephraim Dyer Judge of the Superior Court
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