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Document Name: Ephraim Burt testimony memorandum

Author: John Saffin
Date: December 9, 1697
Place: Bristol, Massachusetts
Endorsement(s): None

Abstract: This document and the one following (MSN/COL 2717-3) relate to the case of Ephraim Burt (or Burts) and Samuel Waldron, brought before the Court of General Sessions in Bristol County to answer a complaint of defamation lodged by Samuel Throop of Bristol. Burt and Waldron allegedly repeated a false rumor that Throop had "gott a mayd with child." The document, written and signed by John Saffin, justice of the peace, is a memorandum of testimony given by Burt on 8 December 1697.

Physical Description: Ink on paper; 1 page (30 x 20 cm.) on 1 sheet. Docketing on verso.

Number: MSN/COL 2717-2


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