John de la Forest, MA, 1690 July 31

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de la Forest, John,

Ex@cuted, Plymouth, Mass. July 31, 1690.

From Hearn, citing PLYMOUTH COLONY, LS His PORT
&% PEOPLE, 1620-1691, by Hugene Aubrey Stratton
Salt Lake City, UT: Ancestry Publishing Col,
1986, p 129: "He was a Frenchman who murdered

a fellow Frenchman, Tried and condemned at
Bristol (now Rhode Island, but then under jur-
s$sdiciton of Old Plymouth Colony). 4scaped,
recaptured and returned to Plymouth on July

30, 1690 and ordered for execution on the
following day in order to forestall risk of
another escape by sending him back to Bristol,"

de la Forest, John,

Exa@cuted, Plymouth, Mass. July 31, 1690.

From Hearn, citing PLYMOUTH COLONY, ITs HISTORY
& PEOPLE, 1620-1691, by Eugene Aubrey Stratton
Salt Lake City, UT: Ancestry Publishing Col,
1986, p 129: "He was a Frenchman who murdered

a fellow Frenchman, Tried and condemned at
Bristol (now Rhode Island, but then under jur-
isdiciton of Old Plymouth Colony). scaped,
recaptured and returned to Plymouth on July

30, 1690 and ordered for execution on the
following day in order to forestall risk of
another escape by sending him back to Bristol,"

de la Forest, John,
Exgcuted, Plymouth, Mass. July 31, 1690.
From Hearn, citing PLYMOUTH COLONY, ITS HISTORY|
% PEOPLE, 1620-1691, by Bugene Aubrey Stratton
UT: Ancestry Publishing Col,
e

isdiciton of Old Plymouth Escaped,
recaptured and returned to Plymouth on July

30, 1690 and ordered for execution on the
following day in order to forestall risk of
another escape by sending him back to Bristol.”

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