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NHG-P.760.044
3 Oct 1760:13 (209)
Annapolis, In Maryland, August 21. Last Saturday a
melancholy accident happened, at a petty horse race near
Magothy river, where Wm Rodwell, and Jonas Dawson, who
before had some bickerings about their skill in dancing a
jigg, meeting together, Rodwell challenged Dawson to try
then who was the best man, as he term'd it, by boxing; an
odd criterion to try [ ]! and at it they went; but after a
few blows, Dawson own'd he'd had enough, or that his
antagonist was the best man;--When their Broughsonian
exercise was over, they wash'd, shook hands, and drank as
friends; but a few minutes after Dawson dropped down dead,
and is supposed to have got his death, from a blow he
received on his left side. The other immediately
surrendered himself to justice. By this unhappy affair, a
poor widow and 5 small children are left without any
support, and by far the best man of the two lost to the
community.
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