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Judgment Book Of Superior Court, Vol. F, 1767-1770, At 203-04, New Hampshire State Archives, At 203–04 - King V. Blay
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Claggett later served as King’s Attorney in a notorious prosecution that resulted in the 1768 hanging of Ruth Blay, who had delivered a stillborn child out of wedlock and concealed its body
Provincial Case File No. 23475, New Hampshire State Archives, Which Also Contains A Copy Of The Altered Mittimus Against James Dwyer Signed By Wyseman Claggett
Documents from Dimension II: Habeas Corpus as a Legal Remedy (article)
...Claggett reluctantly signed a mittimus committing him [James Dwyer] to jail. “[B]y mistake [he] dated it 3d November instead of December which he afterwards at gaol keepers request rectified.