{"value"=>"D. S. Witnessed by Paul Mumford. Endorsed. 4 pp. Fo", "format"=>"simple"}
abstract
{"value"=>"Statement of Christopher Osgood of Brattleborough, Vt., at an examination before Paul Mumford, Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Rhode Island, with reference to communications between Chief Justice Smith of New York and certain Americans, and to illegal traffic in British goods. Narrates that in April he carried and delivered a letter from Luke Knowlton, of Newfane, [Vt.,] to New York for William Smith, formerly Chief Justice of the colony; returning in June he brought an unaddressed letter from Smith to Knowlton; in August he was again sent by Knowlton with a letter to Smith from Samuel Wells of Brattleborough [Vt.], returning with an unaddressed letter from Secretary Morgan to Wells; statement of his expenses and of his pay; the first letter, he was told, was brought from Canada by Solomon Ball, the second by Shadrach Ball, both letters he supposes were from Governor Haldimand; in June, one Clarke of Upper Cohors told him he also had been sent to New York; at New York Osgood saw Colonel Norton of Martha's Vineyard, John Taylor of Northborough, Leve Thayer of Milford, Ezra Jones of Worcester, William Prentice of Boston, and Samuel Stevens of Charleston, N. H.; Thayer, Taylor, Norton, and a fourth person, he learned from the first two, had purchased a brig and were to be protected by armed vessels in transporting her cargo to Vineyard Sound; in return, Captain Gooldsbury of Lloyd's Neck was to furnish them with cattle; Thayer and Taylor were to furnish Abijah Williams of New York, formerly of Massachusetts, with cattle; James Richardson of Leominster, Mass., tried to obtain goods in return for cattle, but failed."}
origination
{"value"=>"Osgood, Christopher (Providence, R.I.)", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"Creator"}