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Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 2

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From Gilbert Deblois

5 June 1765

Examination of John Ingham

7 June 1765
342
From Timothy Fales
Fales, Timothy RTP
June 6th. 1765 To the Worshipfull Robt. Treat Paine Esqr.,

Timo. Fales of Taunton Esqr. makes Compt. that on Tuesday night Last past he had his Stable broke open and a large bay mair Stolen and that he Greatly Suspects one John Ingham1a Vagrant fellow to have Committed Said fact. Prays your worship to Grant him a warrt. of Search for the Said mare and for apprehending sd. John. And your Compt. as in Duty bound &c.

TIMO. FALES

RC ; addressed: "To the Worshipfull Robt. Treat Paine Esqr."

1.

John Ingham, a clothier from Solesbury, Bucks Co., Penna., had settled in Taunton the previous year. He wrote on "speculative theology," heretical doctrines which his father used as proofs of a disordered mind to have him confined to an asylum (William Armstrong Ingham, Samuel Delucenna Ingham [n.p., 1910], 3–4).