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@nhsc_indictment_collection:document {title: "New Haven County Superior Court Indictment and Court Proceedings Collection", creator: @new_haven_county_superior_court, institution: @connecticut_state_library, created: @date_1735, subjects: ["Indictment","Court Proceedings","Murder","Legal Documents","Black, African American, and Indigenous History"], description: "Collection of court documents from the New Haven County Superior Court, including an indictment for the murder of Peter Junk, an Indian man, by Noah Durand in 1735."}
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@peter_junk:person {full_name: "Peter Junk", ethnicity: "Native American", status: "Indian man"}
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@indictment_document:document {title: "Indictment for murder of Peter Junk", date: @date_1735_05_22, author: @new_haven_county_superior_court, related_event: @indictment_of_peter_junk}
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@indictment_document -> subject -> @nhsc_baai_cases_papers_subjectNewhaun for Supr' Court September first Thursday 1735 The open purview of our sovereign Lord the King upon their oaths present that whereas by our Captain Law of this Colony in Titled An act for punishing of Capital offends among other things it is provided that if any person shall commit any willfull murder upon malice Hatred or Cruelly not in a mans just & necessary Defense nor by Casually against his will he shall be put to death yet neverthless Noah Durand of derby in the County of newhaun on or about the 22 day of may last att derby above did not fearing the fear of god expose his eyes but being preludged by the said Noah did take in to his hand again of the value of twenty shillings leaden with powder & ball & there with an a Jalt made upon the body of one Peter Junk an Indian man who was then there in the power of god & the King viz att derby in the 22 day of may last & did proprant the po gun directly att the body of the said Peter Junk & fired of the same & flied the po peter junk through the trunk of the body whereof he instantly ly dyed & thus the said Noah Durand did willfully wickedly cruelly maliciously & feloniously murder the po peter junk contrary to the force form & Effect of the laws before & against the peace of our sovereign Lord the King his Crown & dignity etc
Ignaramas J John monmon Forman
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