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NYM(G.772.131
20 Jul 1772:31 (1082)
Williamsburgh, (in Virginia) July 2. The Governor has
issued his proclamation, and offered a reward of fifty
pounds, for apprehending one Nicholas Curlett, lately a
tavern-keeper in Winchester, who on the 27th of May last,
barbarously murdered Mr. Jeremiah Beall, a merchant of that
place, by firing through his door at him with a rifle. It
seems Mr. Beall, and some others, had been merry-making that
day, and in the evening, hearing a fiddle at Curlett's
tavern, they proposed joining the company there, but upon
their coming were refused admittance by Curlett. . . [10
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