Boschong Subscribers, We found a very long newspaper article about a man named John Wilson in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania who was in a military regiment who was boasting that he could lick anyone. Obviously he had a big chip on his shoulder and had something to prove. He was fighting with everyone and finally killed a man by the name of Thomas Bunns. At some point before he killed Bunns, he and an unnamed Bushong man got into an altercation and Nancy and Hannah Bushong gave testimony at John Wilson's murder trial. ----------------------- NOTE: Since this account took up an entire page of this newspaper, I am only going to show a little of the testimony. The mention of a Bushong having an altercation with John Wilson is part of the testimony but I didn't copy that part because it seems unnecessary since it did not name his first name. Would anyone like to venture a guess as to who the Bushong man and two women are? The Lancaster Journal Friday, 7 February 1823 Page 2 22 January 1823 A SHORT REPORT OF THE TRIAL OF JOHN WILSON FOR THE MURDER OF THOMAS BUNNS, AT THE JANUARY SESSION, 1823, OF THE COURT OF OYER AND TERMINER OF LANCASTER COUNTY. "The defendant produced Nancy and Hannah Bushong, who stated that John Wilson called at their house, on his way home from the muster on the first Monday of May last, and staid there for some time, and that no body was with him." ---------------------------- Researched, Copied and Submitted by Gloria Bushong