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Paine’s Minutes of Cushing’s and Lynde’s charges to the Jury: 29 October 1770

Paine’s Minutes of Cushing’s and Lynde’s charges to the Jury1

29 October 1770

J. Cushing. It is odd the Town should think of doing Justice by a Mob.

The principal Q[uestion] whether the Prisoner gave Order.

J. Lynde. Principal Q[uestion] whether Prisoner gave Order. I fear people come in too hostile a Manner.

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    Paine’s Minutes of Cushing’s and Lynde’s charges to the Jury: 29 October 1770
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    Paine, Robert Treat
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    29 October 1770

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    “Paine’s Minutes of Cushing’s and Lynde’s charges to the Jury: 29 October 1770,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/05-03-02-0001-0003-0013. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Legal Papers of John Adams, vol. 3, Cases 63 and 64: The Boston Massacre Trials, ed. L. Kinvin Wroth and Hiller B. Zobel. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1965, p. 97.]