Category: 1778
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An Inquisition
Evidence is Presented 1. Impaneling a Grand Jury: 16 Jurors. Their role is to verify the evidence for an indictment. Not to weigh guilt or innocence.2. The Attorney General presents the charges he proposed, along with some of the evidence. There was no defense, only an acknowledgment that the evidence…
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Quaker Earl
The Quaker Meeting in Cornwall, NY I generated the audio from an earlier post. Just to see how well it works. Probably could benefit from some finessing. Any helpful criticism is very appreciated.
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The Halloween Episode
A very cool aspect of researching The Clove has been the ability to drive to many of the locations where the events took place. A crucial part of the book takes place when Ben and Richard Earl travel to Alligerville, NY to pick up millstones made by Benjamin Alliger and…
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August 8, 1778
The date of the robbery at the Earls (and Woodhulls). Right in the middle of a Hudson Valley summer. Claudius Smith was 43 years old and married to Abigail Rumsey (41). They had married in 1762, and Abigail was not the mother of Claudius’s sons and fellow gang members. James…
