Record #:

22936

Author(s):

Kammerer, Roger

Abstract:

All of the heinous crimes of murder, assault, horse stealing, and counterfeiting in Pitt County during the period 1774-1790 has been collected. In 1774, John Duff stole a horse from Henry Hodges. As punishment he District Court ordered him “to stand in the pillory one hour, be whipped 39 lashes on the naked back, both ears nailed to the pillory and be cut off, be branded on the right cheek with the letter H and on the left with the letter T.” Probably the worst of these crimes was a Mrs. Ann Tyson murdered her own infant with a shoe on April 27, 1780.

Source:

Greenville Times / Pitt's Past (NC Microforms), Vol. Issue , Apr 2-15 1986, p10-11

Subject(s):

Crime--Pitt County