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BURKE, Jacob

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"Jacob Burke has been convicted before the Supreme Court
at Providence (RI?) of a rape on the body of Elizabeth
Stafford, and is to be hanged on the llth of November
(1803), At the same court, Captain Enoch Tower was con-
victed of murder in the second degree; and sentenced to
three months imprisonment, a fine of 500 dollars and
costs of prosecution," CHARLESTON COURIER, C,arleston,

SC, 10-21-1803 (3:1,)

Cowmetted by General Asseubly-

BURKE, Jacob

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"Jacob Burke has been convicted before the Supreme Court
at Providence (RI?) of a rape on the body of Elizabeth
Stafford, and is to be hanged on the llth of November
(1803), At the same court, Captain Enoch Tower was con-
victed of murder in the second degree; and sentenced to
three months imprisonment, a fine of 500 dollars and
costs of prosecution,"' CHARLESTON COURIER, Cyarleston,
SC, 10-21-1803 (3:1,.)

Commuted by General Assexbly-

BURKE, Jacob

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"Jacob Burke has been convicted before the Supreme Court
at Providence (RI?) of a rape on the body of Elizabeth
Stafford, and is to be hanged on the 1lth of Novenber
(1803), At the same court, Captain Enoch T

iss poe inprisonment, a fin
So CHARLESTON COURIER,
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