A friend just sent this to me, and I loved it. It's little things like this that make history come alive. Apparently the ladies of our area are NOT to be 'messed' with! The Pennsylvania Gazette, April 10-17, 1735, contains the following: " PHILADELPHIA, April 17. ""We hear from Chester County, that last Week at a Vendue held there, a Man being unreasonably abusive to his Wife upon some trifling Occasion, the Women form'd themselves into a Court, and order'd him to be apprehended by their Officers and brought to Tryal: Being found guilty he was condemn'd to be duck'd 3 times in a neighbouring Pond, and to have one half cut off, of his Hair and Beard (which it seems he wore at full length) and the Sentence was accordingly executed, to the great Diversion of the Spectators."