VAN ATTA, James
van Atta, a 30-year-old white farmer, lived at Alexandria, Hunterdon
Coes Ne Je He had long maintained a personal enmity with another
farmer named YXMKEXEXSIR John Fields, One morning in April, 179),
Fields left the home that he shared with his sister to go to work
for another neighbor but he did not arrive at his job. A search was
instituted and the mill dam at Frenchtown was dragged, but the body
was not located. Finally, one of the searchers found a newly covered
grave in the woods near where Van Atta lived and when it was uncovered
it ylelded the body of Fields who had been Shot through the head,
Secause of the known enmity between the two men, a warrant was issued
for Van Atta's arrest and he confessed to the murder. Convicted and
sentenced to die, he was hanged in the Upper part of Flemington on
July » 179k.
HISTORY OF FRENCHTOWN by Clarence B, Fargo. “ublished, 19335 by
Clarence B, ‘Fargo, New York, ‘ages 8-19
HISTORICAL CCLLECTIONS OF THE STATE OF NW YDRSEY by John W. Barber
and Henry Howe, Published by S, Tuttle, New York, 185. Page 253
HISTORY OF HUNTERDON AND SOMERSET COUNTIES, Ne J,, Compiadd by James
P, Snell, “*ublished 1881 by Everts & Peck, Philadelphia. P. 200
VAN ATTA, James
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Van Atta, 2 30-year-old white farmer, lived at Alexandria, Hunterdon
Coe, Ne J. He had long maintained a personal enmity with another
farmer named YMMAEXEXAIR John Fields, One morning in April, 179),
Fields left the home that he shared with his sibter to go to work
for another neighbor but he did not arrive at his job. A search was
instituted and the mill dam at Frenchtown was dragged, but the body
was not located. Finally, one of the searchers found a newly covered
grave in the woods near where Van Atta ed and when it was uncovere
it yielded the body of #Hields who had been shot through the head,
secause of the known enmity between the two men, a warrant was issued
for Van Atta's arrest and he confessed to the murder. Convicted and
sentenced to die, he was hanged in the Upper part of Flemington on
July > 179k.
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Clarence B. ‘Fargo, New York, ages 8-9
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