A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Pennsylvania > Bucks http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=1749 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=53785 Submitted by: Gigimo Article Title: The Boston Weekly News-Letter Article Date: November 12 1736 Article Description: Death of Elijah DONE, and Sentencing of Frances HAMMILTON for Pick Pocketing. Article Text: Philadelphia, Octob. 21. We hear from Bucks, that the woman lately condemn'd to be hang'd at Philadelphia for burglary, but repriev'd and discharg'd, is now in prison at Newtown for a crime of the same kind. And from the same County, that Elijah DONE, a farmer there having some people at his house to assist in husking Indian corn, took a horse and rid towards Bristol for some rum to entertain them with, and having sent it homewards, he cross'd from Bristol to Burlington with his horse tho' he had no business that way,and rid up Burlington street full speed. A cow happened to be in the way which he rid over, and fell, broke one arm, languish'd two days, and then died. It seems he had sometimes before been disorder'd in his senses, and at such times used to ride violently thro' the woods. The same morning Frances HAMMILTON received her punishment for (being found out at) picking pockets on the 16th instant. She was exalted above the heads of the people, to the top of the Courthouse steps, and her hands bound to the rails, with her face towards the whipping-post and pillory, and after she had remain'd in that situation for two hours, she was taken down and publickly whipt. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ PA-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com Also visit our other sites: http://www.AncestorsOnTheWeb.com http://www.Genealogy101.com http://www.AutumnWindz.com