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To Isaac Hodsdon, The [Concord] Gazette, Apr. 5, 1814

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A long and scathing response to [Hodsdon's) account was published as Letter to the Editor, “who invested you, most noble captain, with authority to act as Judge, Jury, and Executioner, upon these men?”

Isaac Hodsdon, Letter To The Editor, To The Public, N.H. Patriot, Mar. 29, 1814, At 3.

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He [Hodsdon] wrote to a newspaper several months later, he “posted sentinels at the forks and angles of roads for the purpose of detecting citizens who were in the nefarious practice of smuggling."

Capt. Hodgdon [Sic] – And Military Despotism, The [Windsor, Vt.] Washingtonian, Mar. 21, 1814

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An account of the writ of habeas corpus ordering Hodsdon to produce.the prisoners.

The Season Of Deception, N.H. Patriot6, March 8, 1814

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Rebuts claim of rival newspaper that Hodsdon was guilty of military despotism.

Highly Interesting Communication, The Concord Gazette, Mar. 1, 1814

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An account of Hodsdon's arrest and imprisonment of Charles Hanson, Sanders Welch Cooper and Charles Hall.

In Re Hodsdon, Strafford County Superior Court Records 1814, Folder 38, Doc. 1 - Application For Writ Of Habeas Corpus

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... “all citizens of the United States” who had “been arrested by persons claiming to act under the authority of the President of the United States,” and were being confined by Hodsdon “without colour of authority.

In Re Hodsdon, Strafford County Superior Court Records 1814, Folder 38, Doc. 1, New Hampshire State Archives - Affidavit Of Joseph Loomis

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The affidavit of Joseph Loomis, a local judge,reported that he had been at the fort in January “and there saw imprisoned Austin Bissell a private citizen of the United States who has since been discharged.

In Re Hodsdon, Strafford County Superior Court Records 1814, Folder 38, Doc. 2, New Hampshire State Archives - Clerk's Endorsement Of Joseph Loomis Affidavit

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The affidavit of Joseph Loomis, a local judge,reported that he had been at the fort in January “and there saw imprisoned Austin Bissell a private citizen of the United States who has since been discharged.

Maine Historical Society, Coll. 8, Box 1/4 - Letter From T.H. Cushing To Isaac Hodsdon (Dec. 29, 1813)

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... General Thomas H. Cushing of the United States Army wrote from his headquarters in Boston to Captain Isaac Hodsdon … The act, laying an Embargo will justify you in stopping every person or thing which you may find in motion for the enemys country and you will not fail to make every exertion for carrying it into full and complete effect.

Resolution By William And Mary Students In Regard To The Death Of William Nelson, Professor Of Law

1804–1813: William Nelson

At a meeting of the Students of Wm. and Mary College on the 8th Inst. the following preamble and resolutions were unanimously adopted.

We the Students of William & Mary College deeply impressed with a sense of our loss in the death of the late Hon. Judge Nelson, professor of Law in this college, and filled with sentiments of the highest veneration for the unparalleled virtues that adorned his private life, and with the utmost admiration of those talents and patriotic exertions which on pre-eminently distinguished him in his political services are anxious to pay to his memory the only …

Thoughts In Prison, William Dodd

Thompson Rare Book Collection

The following work, as the dates of the respective parts evince, was begun by its unhappy Author in his apartments at Newgate, on the evening of the day subsequent to his trial and conviction at Justice Hall; and was finished, amidst various necessary interruptions, in little more than the space of two months.

The few little pieces subjoined to the Thoughts, and the Author’s Last Prayer, were found amongst his papers. Their evident connection with the Poem was the inducement for adding them to the volume.

Written by the Rev. William Dodd, during his time in prison prior to …

In Re John Lewis Connor, July 18, 1812, Pennsylvania State Archives, Habeas Corpus 1809–1812

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In that case, the Chief Justice of the state Supreme Court directed a writ of habeas corpus to the commander of a Navy gunboat in Philadelphia harbor calling for the production of Connor. The commander responded in a return of the same date that Connor was lawfully enlisted and continued, “I have here in Court the said John Connor ... to do and be subject to, whatsoever the Court shall consider in his behalf.” On consideration of the matter the Court remanded Connor to his commander.

The Criminal Recorder; Or, An Awful Beacon To The Rising Generation, M Carey

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The Criminal Recorder; or, An Awful Beacon, to the Rising Generation of Both Sexes, Erected by the Arm of Justice, to Persuade Them From the Dreadful Miseries of Guilt.

Collected from Authentic Documents, by a Friend of Man.

With six Copper-Plate Engravings.

Philadelphia: Printed for M. Carey, No.122 High-Street 1811.

[Joseph Hopkinson,] Considerations On The Ablition Of The Common Law In The United States 50-58 (Philadelphia, William P. Farrand And Co. 1809)

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Some authors (Hopkinson), building on Blackstone, pointed out that statutes would inevitably require interpretation.

An Oration On The Abolition Of The Slave Trade; Delivered In The African Church In The City Of New-York, January 1, 1808, Peter Williams Jr

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The United States Constitution, Article 1, Section 9, prohibited Congress from banning the importation of slaves until the year 1808. A bill to do this was first introduced in Congress by Senator Stephen Roe Bradley of Vermont in December 1805, and its passage was recommended by President Jefferson in his annual message to Congress in December 1806. In March 1807, Congress passed the legislation, and President Thomas Jefferson signed it into law on March 3, 1807. Subsequently, on March 25, 1807, the British Parliament also passed an act banning the slave trade aboard British ships. The effective date of the …

Supreme Court Minute Book (Entries Of Feb. 16-20, 1807)

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With the prisoners present, the Court “fully examined and attentively considered,” on an item-by-item basis, “the testimony on which they were committed,” held it insufficient, and ordered their discharge.

Letter From Buckner Thurston To Harry Innes (Feb. 18, 1807)

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With the prisoners present, the Court “fully examined and attentively considered,” on an item-by-item basis, “the testimony on which they were committed,” held it insufficient, and ordered their discharge.

Bushrod Washington, A Justice Of The Supreme Court Of United States, Requests $875 Be Paid To Charles Simms, Collector At The Port Of Alexandria, April 1, 1801., Bushrod Washington

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

Bushrod Washington, a justice of the Supreme Court of United States, requests $875, one quarter of his salary, to be paid to Charles Simms, collector at the port of Alexandria. April 1, 1801.

Judgment Book Of The Rockingham County Superior Court, Vol. M, At 347–51, New Hampshire State Archives - Gile V. Hilton

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A deputy sheriff seems to have seized a wrong tract of land. But ... it is plausible on the facts that he was unaware of the true ownership and ... the officer prevailed.

Judgment Book Of The Rockingham County Superior Court, Vol. O, Feb. 1799 - Sept. 1800, At 236–41, New Hampshire State Archives - Larkin V. Reid

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A deputy sheriff seems to have seized a wrong tract of land. But ... it is plausible on the facts that he was unaware of the true ownership and ... the officer prevailed.

Judgment Book Of The Rockingham County Superior Court, Vol. O, At 255–59, New Hampshire State Archives - Perley V. Webster

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The plaintiff claimed that one of Sheriff Webster’s deputies had been ordered to make a pendente lite attachment and had filed a return detailing the goods seized. But when Perley was granted final judgment, the goods were nowhere to be found.

Judgment Book Of The Rockingham County Superior Court, Vol. O, At 161–63, New Hampshire State Archives - Eastman V. Kelly,

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… a deputy sheriff pocketed the proceeds of a judgment on which he had executed, suit was brought against the sheriff, he entered a sham plea and defaulted on appeal, and the judgment creditor therefore prevailed.

Journal Of The Convention, Begun And Held At The Capitol In The Town Of Frankfort, On Monday The Twenty-Second Day Of July, In The Year Of Our Lord One Thousand, Seven Hundred And Ninety-Nine., Kentucky Constitutional Convention (1799)

Constitutional Conventions

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Signal-Book For The Ships Of War, Henry Edles

Special Collections (Miscellaneous)

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An Enquiry Whether The Act Of Congress Entitled "In Addition To The Act, Entitles An Act For The Punishment Of Certain Crimes Against The United States," Generally Called The Sedition Bill, Is Unconstitutional Or Not, William Nelson

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Georgia Constitution Of 1798 As Amended Through 1849, State Of Georgia

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Georgia Constitution Of 1798, State Of Georgia

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Judgment Book Of The Rockingham County Superior Court, Vol. N, Feb. 1797 - Sept. 1798, At 101-03, New Hampshire State Archives - Bartlett V. Reid

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George Reid, the Sheriff of New Hampshire’s Rockingham County, was sued twice within a few months because different ones of his deputies had failed to serve writs of execution, thereby causing losses to the judgment creditors.

Judgment Book Of The Rockingham County Superior Court, Vol. M, Sept. 1793 - Sept. 1796, At 494–96 - Warner V. Dame

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… recording 1796 lawsuit by Warner against Sheriff Dame alleging failure of Dame’s deputy to file writ of attachment he had served on debtor.

Judgment Book Of The Rockingham County Superior Court, Vol. M, Sept. 1793 - Sept 1796, At 377–79, New Hampshire State Archives - Willson V. Reid

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… lawsuit by Willson against Sheriff Reid alleging Reid’s deputy allowed a defendant in jail under attachment to escape.